KG Creative

Visuals are extremely important at setting mood and atmosphere. This is a curated collection of visual inspiration from many sources. I post images of beauty, equality, design, photography, ideas, body acceptance and anything else I might fancy at the time. Unless otherwise indicated, images are not mine. I've taken all effort to credit and link original authors or sources whenever possible. If an image here is yours, and you would rather me not link to it, attribute it differently, remove it, or if you simply have a comment or something to say to me, please don't hesitate to contact me web: KG Creative twitter: @kg_creative facebook: kg.creative LinkedIn: Kevin Garcia behance: kg creative

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World's hardest job - otter pup groomer, Episode 1, Big Blue Live - BBC One

A film showing the amazing and adorable work of Monterey Bay Aquarium's sea otter team.

Love this shoutout to our Sea Otter Program team! Learn more about their work and how you can help: http://mbayaq.co/1KSwRMN

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Share a Halloween e-card with your friends! Meet our spooky stars, from goblin sharks to ghost shrimp. 

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Some appetite! Our recently hatched common murre chicks are behind the scenes eating (and eating, and eating) in preparation for going on exhibit. It’s the first time we’ve ever had baby murres at the Aquarium!

The eggs, from different mothers, were taken behind the scenes and incubated by our aviculture staff. They hatched August 29 and 30. We take them behind the scenes for their health and safety, rather than keep them in a busy exhibit environment.

The chicks’ mothers have been with us for many years. One was rescued from the Apex Houston oil spill, which occurred off the northern California coast in January 1986. (In fact, at least one Aquarium employee, Janet Covell, was on the scene helping rescue murres.) Our pair was declared non-releasable by California Fish and Wildlife, and was raised at the Aquarium.

Although the species is not currently listed as threatened, all shorebirds face pressures from habitat damage and pollution. The chicks are being raised at the Aquarium under the auspices of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Species Survival Plan (SSP). 

The youngsters are growing fast and being hand-fed small fish every few hours, from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. It’s a lot of work! We expect them to be big enough to go on exhibit in in mid October.

 “We’re really excited to have these chicks at the Aquarium,” says Aimee Greenebaum, associate curator of aviculture. “Especially since they were born to rescued mothers that have been here for a long time. It’s a great success story. Plus—they’re so cute!”

Learn more about the common murre

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Modern Remakes Of Famous Paintings by The Booooooom + Adobe 

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Otter Pup on Exhibit!

Cuteness alert! A rescued male sea otter pup went on exhibit January 21, with companion otter, Gidget. The debut of the 12 1/2-week-old makes him the sixth pup ever to go on exhibit. He’s also the 649th stranded otter to be brought into our Sea Otter Research and Conservation program since 1984.

Otter 649 was stranded in November 2013 on Jalama Beach in Santa Barbara County as a three-week-old  weighing less than seven pounds. He was admitted into our veterinary intensive care unit, where he was cared for until he was introduced to Gidget. Otter 649 is now robust and healthy, weighing 16 pounds!

Otter 649 will be transferred to another aquarium accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, where he’ll learn how to socialize with other exhibit animals. That’s why, for now, this otter has a number for a name—our colleagues at the sister aquarium get to do the naming!

Otter 649 is easy to recognize due to his smaller size and uniformly black, velvet-like fur. He will remain on exhibit as long as husbandry staff continues to see positive interactions with Gidget. (This is the first  pup Gidget has mentored.) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has authorized the Aquarium to raise him on exhibit and declared him to be non-releasable. 

We hope you get a chance to see him!

Watch now on our live web cam

Learn how we’re saving sea otters

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BABY OTTER ALERT! OMG YOU GUYS! WE HAVE A NEW PUP ON EXHIBIT.

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All this technology is making us antisocial!

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Plus ca change…..

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Anchorman Ron Burgundy is SO Wrong About Sea Otters!

Do you remember Ron Burgundy, the star of Anchorman and the new Anchorman 2 film coming out in December?

In a recent appearance on The Conan O’Brien Show he said that sea otters are “the dumbest animal on Planet Earth.”

He’s so, so wrong – and we think, on reflection, he’ll conclude that, “I immediately regret this decision.”

Won’t you help restore the sea otters’ good name?

Sea otters can’t speak for themselves. (Though you can read their “Open Letter to Anchorman Ron Burgundy” below.)

But you can speak up for them!

Here’s how:

On Facebook, post a comment on Will Ferrell’s page.Tell Conan O’Brien he was wrong to let Ron Burgundy be mean to sea otters on his show.Tell Paramount Pictures, too.

Go on Twitter and tweet a challenge to @Will___Ferrell, to Conan O’Brien and to Paramount Pictures: “Anchorman Ron Burgundy is wrong about sea otters! He can visit them at @MontereyAq &  learn what they’re REALLY like.”

Here’s what our sea otters have to say

Dear Anchorman Ron Burgundy,

We just learned that you’ve been saying mean things about sea otters.

This week on  The Conan O’Brien Show you told the ENTIRE COUNTRY that we’re “the dumbest animal on Planet Earth.” “Boring as hell,” you said. On the bottom rung on your Hierarchy of Animal Positionology.

Here’s what we say:

Boo to you, Ron Burgundy! We stick out our tongues at you!

But — we are generous creatures, and we’re willing to keep an open mind. We don’t believe you’re a hopeless case. (You might — possibly — rank higher than the hermit crab on your own Positionology chart. Maybe.)

We invite you to pay us a visit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium — the center for sea otter conservation and inspiration. Meet us in person, mano a pata. We’re confident you’ll see the error of your ways, and realize how wrongheaded you’ve been about a species that might oh, we don’t know….maybe HOLD THE KEY to saving Planet Earth from the perils of climate change. 

At the very least, we’ll crack open a crab or two for you to snack on.

Signed,

Abby, Gidget, Ivy, Kit, Rosa & the rest of the sea otters at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Photos: Anchorman poster courtesy Paramount Pictures. Sea otter © Bill Coggin

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It is on, Ron Burgundy!

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Anchovies at the Kelp Forest Exhibit, montereybayaquarium. Video by Randy Wilder.