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montereybayaquarium: A mother knows!Cracking the code of cuttlefish courtship was critical to the success of the “Tentacles” exhibition. Our cunning husbandry team created the perfect circumstances to keep the critters comfortable and cajole them
montereybayaquarium: #ValentinesDay in the ocean can be awkward. Just check out these case studies from staffer and scuba diver Patrick Webster!Watch the full (narrated) video
montereybayaquarium: Our crazy cuttlefish egg bubbler may have been made from household items for Ū.50, but most of our animal care efforts cost a great deal more than that! How much more? Find out and help us by donating to our Fund for the Animals.
montereybayaquarium: Need an attitude adjustment at work? Try this computer wallpaper! Check out all our wallpapers for your computer, mobile phone, and Facebook page.
montereybayaquarium: How do otters celebrate Easter? Our clever Aquarists know eggsactly what they need: colored ice eggs with treats inside! Shown are Gidget, Abby and Ivy. Watch them on our live web cam!
montereybayaquarium: It’s so fluffy! This young otter pup is still hanging out with its mom in our Great Tide Pool! probably one of my favorite places in the world, haven’t been in a while :(
montereybayaquarium:It’s a baby bat ray brunch! Using plate-like teeth to grind and chew their sustainable seafood, these youngsters will grow quickly into their role as majestic sea flap flaps. OK Baby bat ray eating salmon is my new favorite thing.
montereybayaquarium: historieofbeafts: It’s been a while since we checked in on how the Renaissance is doing with its ocean mysteries, so here is a marine biology update circa 1550. Seals come in two forms: Buff & Triangular Walruses are horrifying
montereybayaquarium: nubbsgalore: the downside up Whoa this is stunning 🐋🐳
montereybayaquarium: Wishing you an otterly awesome Fourth of July!
montereybayaquarium: montereybayaquarium: Mangrove roots provide a perfect playground for developing fishes, like these adorable young round rays! (GIFs don’t do the cute justice—watch the video to enjoy the true power of this bouncy ballet of mini
montereybayaquarium:It’s a baby bat ray brunch! Using plate-like teeth to grind and chew their sustainable seafood, these youngsters will grow quickly into their role as majestic sea flap flaps.
montereybayaquarium: how do you do fellow squids
montereybayaquarium: Is it any surprise that this animal’s name is Wunderpus photogenicus? This boldly patterned octopus is now on exhibit in #Tentacles! Watch the wunderpus in action (Charlene Boarts)
montereybayaquarium: Time to cuddle up with your significant otter. Happy Valentine’s Day!
montereybayaquarium:The fishes loved receiving this anonymous postcard from a fan! Send us your postcards to your favorite animal and we will read it to them!
montereybayaquarium: This cousin of the octopus has changed little in more than 150 million years. Its simple eyes can only sense dark and light, but the nautilus uses more than 90 tentacles—the most of any cephalopod—to touch and taste the world.
montereybayaquarium:ALTMantis Shrimp, Seamount High,Sea-nior Class of 1984Voted: Best Eyes & Most Likely to Start a FightFavorite quote: “Party on, dudes.”The mantis shrimp is truly bodacious—its radical colors and totally tubular eyes (they
montereybayaquarium: montereybayaquarium: Conservation works! Roughly 60% of the sea otters in Elkhorn Slough are descendants of our Sea Otter Program—and they’ve helped transform the Slough into a thriving ecosystem. Get the full scoop in our latest
montereybayaquarium: Thanks, California voters, for passing Prop 67 for a plastic-free ocean! There’s still work to do—onward!
montereybayaquarium: nubbsgalore:the downside up Whoa this is stunning 🐋🐳
montereybayaquarium:Is the Mannequin Challenge still a thing? If not, can we Throwback Thursday to when it was?!
montereybayaquarium: montereybayaquarium: Have you ever caught yourself thinking: why has the population of African penguins dwindled by 73.33% since 1956? African penguins: adorable and endangered. The answer is: lots of reasons including oil
montereybayaquarium: Happy Nu(dibranch) Year!
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montereybayaquarium:If you find yourself with a wistful longing for kelp forests past, that’s nostalgaea
montereybayaquarium: montereybayaquarium:If a nudibranch sea slug scored a header in a soccer game in 2014, that would be a rhinophore score and seven years ago the inFINitesimally small audience for this post has shown its appreseaocean and that’s
montereybayaquarium: what is crab if not life persevering
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montereybayaquarium:BIOLOGY: so, tentacles…SQUID: 🦑BIOLOGY: solid, and how ab-yes, question?LEUCKARTIARA LONGICALCAR POT OF GOLD JELLY: um sry to bother biology but what if maybe mine could be twisty twirly? 🥺👉👈BIOLOGY: uh, yeah sure let’s
montereybayaquarium:ALTALTALTALTALTALTALTShrimp. Shramp. Shrump!Shellebrate the wonderful world of shrimp (and their shrimp-like friends) with this playful parody of “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”. We promise by the end, you’ll want to hug a
montereybayaquarium: Chambered nautilus: the ocean’s jet-propelled diverTo avoid predators by day, nautilus linger along deep reef slopes as deep as 2,000 feet. At night, they migrate to shallower waters and cruise the reefs, trailing their tentacles
montereybayaquarium: Wishing everyone a fun-filled Labor Day! What are your plans? (Thanks to sea otter aquarist Hannah Ban-Weiss for the photo)
montereybayaquarium: We’re geeking out over the newest addition to our Tentacles exhibition: the striped pyjama squid! These shy cephalopods have never been displayed in the United States before. To make it happen, our aquarists figured out how
montereybayaquarium: Party on the seafloor! Our intrepid colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) spotted this uncommon gathering of deep sea critters living it up 6,394 feet (1949 meters) under the sea.
montereybayaquarium: If anyone ever tells you the ocean is boring, remind them that Melibe sea slugs smell like watermelon. *Mic-drop* Learn more about Melibes
montereybayaquarium: Happy Friday! Our weekend to-do list is inspired by our Western pond turtles:1. Locate comfy spot in the sun2. 😴
montereybayaquarium: Presenting our nominee for Black Friday mascot: The decorator crab. This discerning shopper searches the rocky reef for seaweed, corals and sea anemones to wear on its shell. Stylish and good camouflage!
montereybayaquarium: Somewhere along Cannery Row, a brown turban snail Tegula brunnea (with three slipper limpet hitchhikers on its shell) rears up, trying to snag a whipping kelp blade—but it also kinda looks like it’s screaming into the void…
montereybayaquarium:With Facebook and Instagram down, at least we still have the fact that a sea cucumber has a mouth and it has a butt, and it doesn’t breathe through its mouth
montereybayaquarium:Have a crabulous day with our ✨NEW✨ Spider Crab Cam! ALTWatch Japanese spider crabs – the largest crabs in the world – in our new exhibition, Into the Deep: Exploring Our Undiscovered Ocean. These gangly, glorious giants have
montereybayaquarium:What did the decorator crab say after molting? “I’m beside myself!”Thanks to Aquarist Kelsey and the rest of the cheer squad for capturing this crustacean sensation! Crabs and other crustaceans have an exoskeleton—like full-body
montereybayaquarium: Fins up if you love sharks! There’s still a lot to learn about these fascinating, misunderstood creatures, but one thing we do know is that there’s a huge diversity of spectacular shark species gliding through our ocean.
montereybayaquarium: Plankton of the world, beware! While most nudibranchs, or sea slugs, crawl and graze, the melibe sweeps its hood through the water like a net, capturing unsuspecting tiny drifters. A fringe of tentacles interlock and trap prey as
montereybayaquarium: Moon jellies go through many phases in their storied life—what we call the “jelly” is really just the adult “medusa” phase. From sexual reproduction to asexual cloning, moon jellies have a truly extraordinary lifecycle.
montereybayaquarium: sciencefriday: laughingsquid: ketrinadrawsalot: Know Your Cephalopods! Know Your Cephalopods! Always ready for some cephalopods! Important! There will be a test later.
montereybayaquarium: What are the sharks in our Monterey Bay Habitats exhibit up to? Only one way to find out: 👀 📹 Sharks are an important part of healthy ocean ecosystems throughout the world, including the waters of Monterey Bay.
montereybayaquarium: montereybayaquarium: It’s a baby bat ray brunch! Using plate-like teeth to grind and chew their sustainable seafood, these youngsters will grow quickly into their role as majestic sea flap flaps. It’s not Shark Week without some
montereybayaquarium: montereybayaquarium: Ever wonder what life is like as a cephalopod aquarist? Our Tentacles exhibition is the largest living collection on cephalopods on display in the world—and keeping up with its tenants is colossal (squid)
montereybayaquarium: montereybayaquarium: Round of a-paws for Selka, who just raised her first rescued pup! 👏🏆 Reblogging for World Otter Day!
montereybayaquarium: montereybayaquarium: BIOLOGY: so, colors-LINED CHITON: i wanna be pink…BIOLOGY: nice! you graze on coralline algae so good choi-LINED CHITON: …with zig zags…BIOLOGY: huh interest-LINED CHITON: …ELECTRIC BLUE ZIG ZAGS!BIOLOGY:
montereybayaquarium: montereybayaquarium:Somewhere, under the rainbow… … it’s still #SHROMPweek!
montereybayaquarium:montereybayaquarium:what is crab if not life persevering what is life if not crab persevering
montereybayaquarium:montereybayaquarium:The King Tides washed over Cannery Row this time last week—watch Monterey Bay rise and fall 8.5 feet through some of the largest tidal swings of the year in this timelapse from the Aquarium’s back deck!Thanks
