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🦦 Name our newest resident sea otter!

We’re otterly excited to announce that, in the coming weeks, we’ll welcome a brand new resident sea otter to the Aquarium’s raft!

Our newest otter was found stranded as a pup near San Luis Obispo, 100 miles south of Monterey. After being deemed unreleasable by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, she’s spent the past year behind the scenes getting used to her new home at Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Our team is busy preparing for her to join Ruby, Ivy, and Selka on exhibit. But there’s just one thing missing—she still needs a name!

Teaching a resident otter to recognize her own name is an important part of her training, so we narrowed it down to three unique choices:

💙Hazel 💙Opal 💙Quinn

Starting this Wednesday, March 26 at 12 p.m. PST, check out our socials for a link to the poll. You’ll have 24 hours to vote and help name our new exhibit otter.

We can’t wait for you to meet her!

montereybayaquarium

⏰ It's time to decide: Hazel, Opal, or Quinn? Cast your vote now!

Due to technical delays launching the poll, voting has been extended through midnight PST tonight. Thanks for your patience; we can't wait to find out which name you choose!

xxdrowninglessonsxx

crochet aquarium

karmicrespite

@rabbitindisguise

isopodcasino

Fish gifs!!!

Fish gifs I made a bit ago, all with blockbench.

Edit: Guys stop narcing on me to the horny fish accounts I MADE IT HORNY ON PURPOSE

floofybitch

https://fb.watch/mjDHL25iin/?mibextid=Nif5oz

acakewalkofcrocodiles

#rolling like a hot dog on the ocean floor#a state we can all aspire to

it is gorgeous

fleshdyk3

genuinely in tears over this fucking video

zinyli

Hello again this is days 15-21, just have one week left of fish february :_[ anyways…SHARK WEEK!!!!!!

sassytail

Check out this beautiful female (?) orange throated darter I saw at the creek today.

I’m getting good at recognizing differences between different groups of individuals. I think there’s 2 different species with some amount of sexual dimorphism in both.

They are Just Little Guys, too.

Like 3 inches at the longest I’ve seen em, and v slender.

byjove

Did you know that many gastropods can create a pearl, including terrestrial snails? The difference is nacre which is only found in some species of mollusks and which which gives pearls their beautiful shine. Terrestrial snails occasionally produce very small translucent white pearls which are usually lost. One non-nacre secreting sea snail, the melo melo, produces gorgeous pearls that are extremely prized and rare.

byjove

Conches can also produce pearls.

mrskayathefrog

Paua (also called abalone) can make pearls as well- though they are only half-pearls (called mabel pearls)

derinthescarletpescatarian

Things animals love to make:

mucus

calcified secretions from mucus

marinebioblr

Caribbean reef squid are very enigmatic creatures and can be difficult to find during the day, thanks to their camouflage, but are much more easily spotted at night due to their reflective eyes and more bold attitude in the dark!

Most who are interested in cephalopods have heard of chromatophores (the cells responsible for their color-changing prowess) but lesser known are the iridophores that lay beneath that lend their skin unique reflective properties; their eyes are tightly packed with these cells, and give them their flashing-coin quality!

markscherz

All over the world, different types of frogs call out in various ways to warn others or attract mates

Check out this piece in Smithsonian Magazine on frog calls, featuring frogs bleating, beeping, and whistling!

plaguedocboi

Nature really went off with sperm whales. A 70-ton predator with teeth the size of a banana but it only eats squishy prey that it doesn’t even chew, it just schlorps them down whole like a vacuum cleaner. Big giant fat head full of goop. Tiniest fins in the world. Strong enough to smash a ship to pieces and smart enough to figure out how to do so but its first line of defense is just to shit everywhere. Possibly the most complex language in the animal kingdom and it creates sounds by blowing air through its internal right nostril (it uses the left one to breathe) into its giant fat head. It’s the loudest animal on the planet and might have the capability to create a beam of sound so loud it can shake your organs apart but they don’t seem to use that to hunt or fight. They’re highly flammable. We used them to make candles.

bisquid

WHY does the inner ear have a direct line to your stomach? What evolutionary advantage is there to throwing up when you're dizzy?

moniquill

When your ancestors were fish, this:

The inner ear positional system reports data about your position in three dimensional space in relation to gravity, accounting for acceleration.

Throwing up when you're dizzy might make the predator drop you.

bisquid

... That makes sense but also why is it always because fish

earhartsease

don't diss your ancestors

they also gave us some other weird shit in your middle ear that means singing with other people gives you euphoria

Re-introduction

Hello!

It’s been a while since I’ve been active on here so I thought I’d do a re-introduction for myself.

My names Hannah, I live in the UK, and I’m a marine biologist! (in progress)

Truthfully I have a very vaguely related job since I graduated last year but I’m getting back into the swing of things. I’d like your help keeping me engaged and up to date on all things marine and hopefully I can share some things that I’ve learnt with you too.

I’ve got a bit of a varied background, but I’ve been in the game for a long time now so I may also talk about things such as:

Marine policy

Coastal ecology

Horticulture and all things plants

Rural and woodland ecology

I’m gonna be working back up to being regularly active over time, so I look forward to talking to you all again! 🪸

#marine biology #marine ecology #afrondlykelp #I’ve missed being here!