#me at the aquarium

[trudlejack]

[montereybayaquarium]

Holy mola! It’s feeding time!

Check out how we train our mola to come to the surface of the Open Sea exhibit to chow down on some delicious food!

Fun fact: Inside a mola's tiny mouth are two pairs of hard teeth plates shaped with a slightly curved ridge, resembling a bird's beak. Here’s the twist: The mola doesn’t chew its food! 😳

Instead, it sucks the food in and out (especially in the case of jellies) until it’s reduced to gelatinous chunks. Here at the Aquarium, we make a special gelatin-formula that allows our mola to munch on food just the way it would in the wild.

[marinememes]

Customer at work wore this for his first trip to the aquarium

[tiafrye]

💜 Batstarion supremacy 💜

[spocks-kaathyra]

Spock looking for whales at the Cetacean Institute!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

you want a new kind of guy, fine, i raise you: the lady i was briefly roommates with in college who once smoked a blunt at a party and then spent an hour confessing earnestly to me that she genuinely preferred reading detailed episode recaps over actually watching the tv show in question

[softandsleepyboy]

𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 do aquariums almost instantly make y'all feel small? Or is it just me? Because the second I step inside an aquarium, baby me gets all excited about the fishies and takes over 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼

[static-quo]

Black ocean cold & dark // I am the the hungry shark // Fast and merciless-

Lydia // Highly Suspect

Listen I had to make this cringefail girlie serve to feel better about liking him so damn much -w-;;

[thesapphiccrytid]

star plasma vessel looking at fishies

what could she be thinking about

[youre-dreaming-302]

[boneinator]

Do y'all know about those computer aquariums and water mouses? Well look them up bc they are SO COOL

(reblogs > likes !!)

[orcinus-veterinarius]

I remain baffled and disturbed by the sheer number of people who genuinely believe a zoo animal can survive, let alone thrive, in the wild. Animals that are bred for reintroduction programs are handled completely differently than general collection animals, and even with all that preparation, many will not make it. To think a random animal in a zoo can be set loose and do just fine is more ignorant than I can comprehend.

"Freedom" is a human concept. And projecting your very human desire for freedom onto animals is one of the most gross froms of anthropomorphism.

[montereybayaquarium]

Happy World Penguin Day (tomorrow)! 🐧

Dive into the wonderfully-winged world of African penguins with the Aquarium’s own aviculturist, Kim! From rocky shores to sandy beaches, explore where these charismatic birds call home. 💙🪨🏠

[marinememes]

Do you know what a Tully Monster is? If not, buckle up

Tullimonstrum? My best friend Tully?

[bri-does-art]

Some sketchbook doodles of a silly, casual and plotless AU variation on CotA, to make up for the wait on the next chapter 🥲

No fight for survival on an alien world here - just a tired, unpaid volunteer suffering shenanigans at the hands of mischievous residents. I sadly don't have any more details to offer than that, as I've got nothing figured out, not even the true nature of Sun and Moon - poached mers? genetic experiments? ultra-advanced animatronics in a water park attraction? I don't know, I'm not putting any effort in figuring it out, tis just silly bedtime doodles!