new otter pup alert!

at the shedd aquarium! there are several more pictures here.

 thx bun bun!

UPDATE! there's a video:


(and a cutest momemts ranking)

there better be sharks. and lots of them.

New York's Times Square may be getting a new tenant: a seven-story aquarium.

Jerry Shefsky, a Toronto-based developer, said on Wednesday that he has signed a preliminary agreement with the landlord of an office tower on the western edge of Times Square to go forward with the $100 million project. He would install tanks featuring sharks, rays, penguins, otters, and other animals in the bottom floors of the 40-story building, known as 11 Times Square, hoping to attract some of the 35 million people who pass through Manhattan's major crossroads every year.

Mr. Shefsky, 76 years old, has built aquariums and shopping centers around the world. He cautioned in an interview that the lease agreement for 11 Times Square isn't yet final. But he said he may start building out the space as early as this April with the hope of opening the aquarium in September 2011. (via)

now that's a desk!

The musician and owner of the biological installation company Anchor Aquarium Service grew up making terrariums for his eight-legged pets. “My friend and I became very competitive about who would have the lushest, coolest spider tank, and it just grew from there,” he says. He then minored in biology, worked at the National Zoo in Tennessee, and now regularly designs custom terrariums and aquariums, and even a combination of the two called a paludarium for private clients, schools and artists. Together with artist Andrea Blum, for instance, he built terrariums into her furniture. (Answering phones all day wouldn’t be so bad at this receptionist’s desk!) Soon, he’s planning on teaching others his terrarium tips via classes. (via)

RIP nico.

carly's google reminded me that i heard this happened.

sexy shark time

some belgian scientists, in an attempt to spark some more productive sexy times amongst their resident zebra sharks, started pumping in some barry white to get them in the mood. what a silly idea! (via)

tales from the south : the georgia aquarium!

while in atlanta this weekend, my mom took me to the aQuArIuM! that's how much she loves me. as you can imagine, i was really pumped. i took a lot of pictures of all kinds of creatures. want to see some? i thought so...

this is a beeeaaautiful jellyfish. i learned that they raise sea monkeys in the back and that's what they feed the jellies!

they had one of those underwater tunnels. it was 100 feet long.

the aquarium has 4 whale sharks. this is trixie, she's the biggest one. that's also one of joel's nicknames.

red gold!!!!

this is nico, one of the aquarium's three beluga whales. he was a real showboat, i'll tell you what. it all made sense when i found out he was on loan from the new york aquarium in bRoOkLyn! represent, nico!

these were called go-vols fish. i promise...it's science.

omg this ridiculous creature was my gchat picture for a while, but i never knew what it was. turns out...its a leafy sea dragon!

GiAnT sQuId!!!!

that's a piranha and it WILL eat you.

they had this petting tank...with sting rays that you could reach in and touch. i touched one! it was really slimy and sometimes i could feel their skeletons which made me stm.

you could also touch these sharks. but only a two-finger touch. they kept saying that. "this is a two-finger touch." ctm.


and finally, here's a video from the river otters tank. they were playing with a piece of carpet. isn't it just like georgia to give the otters some trash to play with?

i had so much fun at the aquarium! if you want to see the rest of my pictures, just click on this.