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We get pretty excited about the common siphonophore. What’s not to love?
We’re thrilled to be the first public aquarium in the world to culture and raise these delightful drifters. While these animals are incredibly fragile and difficult to see, they’re abundant and can be found throughout the ocean!
Siphonophores are colonies of tiny animals called “zooids”, and they play an important role in the oceanic food webs.
Thank you to our colleagues at @mbari-blog for the common siphonophore footage! Check out their website to learn more about these magnificent mysteries!
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GLUMP!!
What sound would a predatory tunicate make? Resembling a piranha plant from Super Mario Bros., these transparent invertebrates live anchored along the deep sea canyon walls and seafloor, patiently waiting for unsuspecting prey to wander by or swim into their cavernous hoods.
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Happy International Seal Day!
No better way to seal-ebrate than this wave of cuteness galumphing into your feed 🦭😍 Pupping season can begin as early as February and go until June or July. Remember to share the shore and give these babies space —moms sometimes stash their pup while they go off to forage or hunt and can get scared away if disturbed.
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🚨WARNING!🚨 AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums across the U.S. are being targeted with scams advertising fake tickets at discounted prices.
Scammers are targeting Monterey Bay Aquarium visitors with these fake ticket offers online. 
The only place to purchase official Aquarium tickets is through our website. As a nonprofit organization, proceeds from legitimate ticket sales allow us to continue our mission of inspiring conservation of the ocean. Find out more here: https://mbayaq.co/3vlcRpi
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Meet Chica the giant Pacific octopus and dive behind the scenes with senior aquarist René! 🐙
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Shrimp Week’s over and we’re tired, so we’re bringing big weaner energy into the week.
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And that’s all, folks! It’s time to close the curtain on this year’s Shrimp Week! We laughed, we cried, and we shorely raised some shell.
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We appreciate you for riding this wild wave with us during a week of unbridled (and unhinged) joy for our tiny crustacean sensations. 
✨You’re shrimply the best!✨
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Feeling salty? 🌊🦐
Let your worries bubble away with 12 hours of home-grown Artemia brine shrimp swimming to a bubbling soundscape behind the scenes of the Monterey Bay Aquarium:
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Have you taken our “Which Shrimp Are You?” quiz yet? 👀
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No one: 
Shrimp: Who are you? Who, who, who, who? 🦐🦐🦐🦐
Dive into our ✨updated✨ personality quiz and discover your inner shrimp!
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💪 Shelly Skellie’s back and shrompier than ever! ✨
You’ve seen her in her famous workout videos—now Shelly Skellie life coach is here to 💪pump up💪 your shellf-esteem!  Let’s krill it together 🦐
Check out our Shrimp Week fundraiser that’s packed with shrimply super rewards—even a personalized message from Shelly Skellie herself!
Donate to our Shrimp Week fundraiser here!
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No one is safe from shrimp facts during shrimp week! 🦐
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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: Shrimp Edition! 🦐
How do you get from Kevin Bacon to shrimp? 🤔 Join us as we shellebrate the interconnectedness of our world, from the silver screen to the shimmering seas. 
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Lights, camera, action! ✨🎥🎬
Let’s shellebrate the crustacean sensations of the stage and sea-lver screen with these shrimply sublime parody musical posters.
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(p.s. If you donate $20 to our Shrimp Week fundraiser, you’ll receive access to high-quality versions of these posters to download and print yourselves. Put them up in your classroom! Dorm! House! Office! Bathroom?) Donate today!
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It’s time for Zodiac signs as shrimp (and other close shrimp-like relatives)! 🦐✨
🌜☀️✨ Part 2 ✨ ☀️🌛
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Sea the rest in 🌜☀️✨ Part 1! ✨ ☀️🌛
Thanks to our fronds at NOAA for the image of the goblin shrimp!
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It’s time for Zodiac signs as shrimp (and other close shrimp-like relatives)! 🦐✨
🌜☀️✨ Part 1 ✨ ☀️🌛
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Sea the rest in 🌜☀️✨ Part 2! ✨ ☀️🌛
Thanks to our fronds @mbari-blog for the image of the transparent shrimp! (which is technically an amphipod, but shhhhhh)
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Make a great first shrimpression with these shrimpeccable looks 🦐✨
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Whether you're shrimply fabulous or krilling it on the runway, these shrimpspired outfits will have you feeling oh-so-shellfishly chic! 🦐✨
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mantis. Mantis. MANTIS!
Join the Aquarium crew for a strikingly prawnderful livestream on Thurs., Mar. 14 at 4 p.m. PT. We’ll be talking mantis shrimp with a mantis shrimp aquarist while playing the card game Mantis!
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Sea you on Twitch or over on YouTube!
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