We are delighted to reveal that our penguin chick is a.... 💙🩷
The penguin team waited until the chick had its first moult, which usually occurs several months after hatching, before sending their feathers for a DNA check.
A penguin chick’s sex cannot be confirmed without a DNA check, as there is no other way to differentiate them! 🐧
The chick can be spotted at the end with their new blue and white wing bands on!
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'Schools' out! 🐠
Escape the wet weather and come indoors this October half-term to explore our brand new event, Let's Get Glowing, running until 3rd November!
✨ Tune into 'The Glow Show', running daily at 11am, 1pm and 3pm in Endless Ocean. Explore the creatures that dwell in the depths of the ocean and the incredible way that they use their own light!
💡 Take part in our interactive demonstration stations around the aquarium and submit your answers for the chance to win an exciting prize bundle!
🎨 Head to Craft Corner to have your face painted and visit our Ice Tunnel to watch your designs GLOW!
Book now: https://ow.ly/GiUW50TTnVi
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After recently passing his Dive Master Qualification, Gav took his first dive this week! 🤿
Complete with 'P' plates, Gav dived with two of our Aquarists and watched them carry out a feed for all the species in Endless Ocean.
Our Supervisors monitor the divers from the surface and the team always dive in pairs. The Aquarists use a mixture of hand signals and a special interface system to communicate with each other under the water. 🫧
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🎥 Watch the moment our penguin keepers captured the chick's very first swim!
The chick currently weighs in at a healthy 4.66kg and continues to be developing well. 🐧
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Here you can see Senior Aquarist, Paul, acclimating and releasing Butterfly splitfin fish into their new habitat in Deep Blue One!
Acclimating new arrivals involves carefully matching water parameters such as temperature and pH to ensure a habitat exactly meets a species' requirements. This process can take time with water changes being undertaken very slowly. Once everything is exactly perfect, we then allow them into their new home. 💧
Butterfly splitfin fish used to be prevalent throughout the Ameca River drainage in Mexico but they are now a Critically Endangered species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as their wild population has drastically reduced.
Mature females produce live young and can give birth every 6 – 10 weeks! The males can be identified by a yellow band across their tail. Come and find out more about this species in Deep Blue One! 🐟
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Volume up! 🔊🐸
Male Green mantella frogs use short, clicking calls to attract females. Their calls last less than 30 milliseconds!
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Our penguin chick loved getting a small splash of water from the hose our Aquarists use to clean down the habitat. 🐧
Just look at those flippers go!
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The Paris Olympics kicks off today! 🏅
Check out #TeamDeep! 👇
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This #CoralReefAwarenessWeek, we thought we'd share a flashback to the night dive one of our Aquarists undertook a few years ago in Curaçao, as part of the SECORE International project! 🪸
The SECORE (SExual COral REproduction) project is a global collaboration between many research and aquarium institutions, with the aim of protecting and restoring coral reefs around the world.
Night dives involved collecting coral gametes, which were then settled in laboratory conditions, and replanted out onto protected vulnerable reefs. 🤿
The SECORE projects are still ongoing in 9 different Caribbean locations!
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It was great to receive so many questions on our last post about the saltwater mixing process, so we decided to answer them in a video! 🌊
Seb, one of our Senior Life Support System Specialists, talks in more detail about the process below. 👇
Read more on how we make our salt water here: https://ow.ly/lmZ150SCl7n
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Did you know, July is Shark Month, this week is Shark Week and today is Shark Awareness Day? 🦈
Take a read of our latest blog to find out some truly FIN-tastic facts: https://ow.ly/OTOV50SAj9Q
Don't forget, you can join us for themed talks and artefact handling sessions today as part of our Shark Awareness Weekend event! We hope to 'sea' you soon. 👋
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That's a proud dad stance 🥰
Stan and Nessie's chick hatched just over 3 weeks ago, and look how much it has grown already! 🐧
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