Monterrey Bay Aquarium

Exhibits • Kelp Forest• The secret lives of seahorses• Splash Zone• Open sea• Sea otters• Rocky shore• The Jellies experience• Giant Pacific octopus • Mission to the deep• Monterrey bay habitats• Sandy shore and aviary• Life on the bay

They have lots of animals such as…

• Sea lions• Seals• Sea horses• Fish• Sharks• Otters• Jelly fish • Octopus• Squid• Penguins• And more…

When was it found

The Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) was founded in 1984 and is located on the site of a former

sardine cannery on Cannery Row of the Pacific Ocean shoreline in Monterey Bay, California. It has

an annual attendance of 1.8 million visitors. It holds thousands of plants and animals, representing 623 separate named species on display. The aquarium benefits by a high circulation of fresh ocean water which is obtained through pipes which pump it in

continuously from Monterey Bay.

Sea life

Sea life on exhibit includes stingrays, jellyfish, sea otters, and numerous other native marine species,

which can be viewed above and below the waterline. The Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of very few in the world to exhibit both Bluefin and yellow fin tuna. For displaying jellyfish, it uses

Kreisel tank, which creates a circular flow to support and suspend the jellies. The aquarium does not

house mammals other than otters.

Sea Otters

There's never a dull moment in the sea otter exhibit!

• Our otters love to play with toys, lounge in ice buckets or just snooze. We feed ours four times a day, often putting the food in toys to stimulate the otters' natural behavior of pounding and working to get food out of shells.

Our aquarists also teach the otters behaviors, like holding a target with their paws or walking onto a scale. Training keeps our otters mentally and physically stimulated—it also makes working with the otters safer for us and less stressful for them.

Abby

Abby was rescued as a newborn in July 2007 by the Santa Barbara Marine Mammal Rescue Center and raised at SeaWorld San Diego, where she became a

popular exhibit otter. She was transferred to the Aquarium in June 2012 to join the sea otter exhibit and became a surrogate mother to her first pup,

Sina, in January 2013.

Gidget

Gidget was found stranded on Morro Strand State Beach in San Luis Obispo County in October 2008 as a 10-week-old pup. She was rescued by volunteers from The Marine Mammal Center and a California

Department of Fish and Game biologist, before being taken to the Aquarium.

Ivy

Ivy was found stranded in November 2011 on Cayucos State Beach in San Luis Obispo County as a two-week-old pup. She was cared for by Sea Otter Research and Conservation program staff for seven

weeks, and then introduced to Toola - the Aquarium's most experienced surrogate mother at the time. After a number of factors interfered with

her timely release, Ivy was declared non-releasable by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Kit

Kit was found stranded in Morro Bay in January 2010 at five weeks old, crying and trying to climb on adult females. A California Department of Fish

and Game biologist rescued her and, based on authorization from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

was not released to the wild. In 2010 Kit became the youngest sea otter pup ever to go on exhibit at the Aquarium—just 11 weeks old—learning critical otter skills like cracking clams and eating live crab

without getting bit! In June 2012 she was transferred to SeaWorld San Diego where she

continued to mature and learn how to socialize with other exhibit animals.

Rosa

Rosa's our oldest sea otter. She was found stranded near Sunset and Manresa State Beaches in southern Santa Cruz County in September 1999, only about four weeks old and weighing just over five pounds.

In April 2000 she was released back to the wild where she spent nearly two years until she began interacting with divers and climbing onto kayaks.

Because of the potential risks to herself and people, federal wildlife officials declared her non-releasable

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