Meet Zenon the Zebra Shark! She's a beauty! Zebra Sharks get their name from the zebra like stripes they have while young! However, when they mature into adults, they lose their stripes and develop spots. As adults, you may also know them as Leopard Sharks. Fully grown they can reach a length of 6 feet! Our Zenon is still in her adolescent phase which you can tell by her size and mixture of stripes and spots

Have you ever touched or hand fed a stingray? Our friendly rays love the attention (and the snacks) and they are so gentle and graceful to observe (their barbs are clipped like fingernails so they can’t sting).

uteness alert! Our juvenile alligators will be considered babies until they are 6 feet long. It’s hard to believe they will one day be as long as a car! They will grow about a foot per year until they are 10-13 ft long and weigh 800 pounds!

Our alligator snapping turtles are coming out of brumation (a reptile type of hibernation) and we will have regular feedings for them every Sunday at 1 p.m. (Through the colder months turtles and other reptiles become inactive as they go through this period of dormancy.) With the warmer temperatures, they are now out of this phase and ready to play! Come down and check it out in person!

Our Octopus loves playtime, and this time it's with a lego in a hamster ball. We love to provide enrichment opportunities for our animals, so they are able to demonstrate species-typical behaviors. Octopuses are highly intelligent creatures. To keep Phoebe engaged with her environment we provide her with a variety of objects that allow her to explore new spaces, new textures and to practice her problem-solving skills! Come see Phoebe and all our other amazing animals!

Shark Feedings! It's lunch time for our sharks! Come check out the unique behaviors of these magnificent creatures.

Sharks that can WALK on the LAND! Epaulette sharks have nocturnal habits and frequent shallow water on coral reefs or in tidal pools. Rather than swim, epaulette sharks "walk" by wriggling their bodies and pushing with their paired fins between coral heads at low tide, along the seafloor, and even on land when needed. For that reason, it is often called the "walking shark." These baby epaulettes hatched in Fall 2019 from egg casings called mermaid purses. As with most sharks, they have very low reproductive rates and are vulnerable to population decline if overfished.

The Sea Nettle's movement is mesmerizing! It's bell can grow up to 30 inches wide and their tentacles have been documented as long as 16 feet! While feeding on zooplankton, this jelly uses light-sensing organs to help it travel from dark, deep water to sunlit surface water!