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Our latest episode of Aquarium of the Podcific, our podcast, features Robin Riggs! You may recognize her name from many of our social media posts. Robin, who has been volunteering since before the Aquarium opened, captures stunning images of our animals during her volunteer shifts. She discusses her transition from film to digital photography, the challenges of photographing animals in various exhibits, and the importance of animal welfare.

Click the link above or find Aquarium of the Podcific anywhere you listen to podcasts!

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Signing off for the day, thank you for all of your wonderful questions! Feel free to leave more for a future Tumblr Tuesday. 🫶

Tuesday again?

Happy Tumblr Tuesday! Madeline here, your trusty social media manager. I have some time to answer some questions so drop yours into our inbox and I'll get through as many as I can!

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Everytime I go this cow fish says “hey hi hello please notice me and take my picture” (at least that’s what I think they’re saying). Do you have thoughts on who enjoys attention the most?

That's Mr. Moo Moo the longhorn cowfish aka an icon, legend, and the moment.

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Hello person answering tumblr asks. Can you please tell me about the most recent aquarium resident you fed?

I got to feed Parker the other day and then he sneezed on me right after this video was taken. It was awesome.

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what is the strangest/rarest animal you have?

It's so hard to decide what the strangest is because we have so many unique animals! The rarest is probably our collection of endangered species that we have conservation efforts for.

One of them is the mountain yellow-legged frog!

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I love Parker with a passion. I love him so much. I wanna kiss his lump head and smoosh his face. I won't because I respect the sea lions but I want to

No I fully get it. I made him this fancam.

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Octopuses. Opinion?

aliens

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who is the oldest animal you have at the aquarium?

Ellie the harbor sea turns 36 this year!

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Hi, I'm Anna. I love dolphins and I was wondering how many dolphins you would happen to see when you're out in the open ocean.

I love dolphins too, and we see hundreds to even thousands on our daily whale watches.

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can we please know everything about your sharks?

EVERYTHING?! I can't put it all in a post BUT we do have a podcast episode all about sharks. Check it out!

You can find Aquarium of the Podcific everywhere you listen to podcasts.

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Do the sharks have names? My gf loves the sharks, her favorite is the nurse shark and mine are maybe the epaulette sharks

Some sharks do! There's really no rhyme or reason for naming/not naming a shark, but here are a few sharks with names.

This is Nandor the zebra shark

This is Fern the zebra shark

and this is Sam the leopard shark. His name is Sam because his spots spell "I AM"

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Marine mammals or marine literally anything else?

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haii!!! may i ask who the biggest and smallest creatures you have over there?

Our largest in size is our reticulate whipray! She is 11 feet long and over 400 pounds. AND she's stunning.

Our largest in weight is Parker the sea lion. He is usually 600 pounds but in the summertime gets to over 800! He's perfect.

One of our smallest animals might be our baby jellies. I don't have a good photo, but check out this video for some size comparisons!

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What’s your least favorite animal?

mosquitos.

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The last time I was at the aquarium, I couldn’t find the sea dragons. Have they been moved off display?

We don't *currently* have any dragons on display. They were sent to another AZA accredited institution for breeding purposes.

We had a few types, the weedy sea dragons were my favorite!

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Top three naughtiest little creatures please?

an otterly easy answer

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Do you have a favorite place to visit in the aquarium? :D

Yes!!! Our Tropical Tunnel is my favorite place inside. I love enjoying a morning cup of tea in here before we open.