Yes, yes. We shouldn’t Be, Yeah, that one, we have a whole program that we tried to develop our own little wallet card, but we realized, you know, Monterey Bay Aquarium has taken the lead on this. They have a staff of, I wanna say 15 or 20 people that… Read More
So it’s, you know, it that’s, you know, one of those things that I think enlightens people, hopefully they practice, you know, what we’re advising them. Plastic pollution is a huge thing. Now. We’ve tried to work with some municipalities as far as getting rid of plastic bags, like at… Read More
But I’m like, yeah, well what about the rest of the neighborhood?… Read More
Well, you know, it gets into the, the overflow issues, you know, with a heavy rainfall, the combined sewer and street overflow, I mean water where unfortunately some houses would have an overflow into their basements where you might have sewage coming up type of thing. Just kind of informing… Read More
That was part of a newer conservation department and that would’ve been, that probably kicked off by the former curator of fishes, Roger Ec. He got into the very early stages of developing a conservation department. And out of that became not only conservation of resources, but also conservation of… Read More
Why is that of concern?… Read More
How did that all come about?… Read More
There’s special life support that’s required for an octopus. Not all do well, you know, in the confines of our exhibitory, either some thrive and they’re all over the place. Others just kind of hold up in a corner and look kind of shriveled up, which is, you know, not… Read More
But also they’ll come and they’ll grab your arm. They kind of come up here and they’ll feel you and they’ll allow you to pet them a little bit. Of course, when you feed ’em, they usually back into their exhibit. But it’s a, it’s a challenging animal and they’re… Read More
You wouldn’t see ’em commonly, but you did see them in like wholesalers, places we would most commonly keep, you could keep oc octopus vulgaris, which is very common, gets to be about that long. And the most recently, the giant Pacific octopus can, if you’ve got a big one,… Read More
Like how did the pet trade get permission to sell these things to the public?… Read More
We have since replaced with plastic pipes, so that’s not an issue. But the water chemistry has to be very good. The temperature is a tight requirement. They giant Pacific octopus need colder water. I think the maximum we held ’em with was 55 degrees Fahrenheit. And just to see… Read More
It’s not like a permanent exhibit animal. So Is our octopus difficult to maintain in captivity and has the Shedd done it?… Read More
They are a challenge. And yes, we have been successful. We even had a little blue ring octopus that are highly venomous. I mean, arm to arm. They’re about that big. But they have beautiful, like iridescent blue rings on their body. They, they have a venom that if they… Read More
But I’m not aware of anyone that’s been able to exhibit those at all for any degree of time. I have heard of seal camps that have been brought to the surface. Their, their time at that level wasn’t long. Read More
So there’s a lot of pressure there. I’m not sure that the animal will be able to survive at atmospheric pressure that we experience every day, perhaps, but we don’t know and difficult to obtain as well. The other one would be deep sea fishes. Those that are found at… Read More
Could be logistically difficult to obtain. It may not be able to survive at these atmospheres. When I say that, there’s two animal groups that I think of. One is a cila cat, which was thought to be extinct until like the late 1920s when it shows up in a… Read More
I have a pencil drawing that the trainers had commissioned an artist to do of him. And in the frame is the she Aquarium ID of Bucky. He’s got his own employee id. So it was a great story and it was great to have him around and, you know,… Read More
He goes, Hey Jim, you know whose dog this is?… Read More
I’m like, oh yeah, it’s the breaker. It’s my dog. I explained why I brought him in. He says, oh, that’ll be fine, that’ll be fine. Just don’t let him up in the public area. So, oh, no, no, no, I, I promise he’s stay in my office. You know,… Read More