Baja Bay
Blue, balmy water. A giant curved window. Green sea turtles, spotted eagle rays, hammerhead sharks. The 280,000-gallon Baja Bay is a microcosm of the warm ocean near Baja California. Be mesmerized.
Swim into Baja
Meet our animals
Love your lettuce
(and grow to 400 pounds)
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Green sea turtles are herbivores – in the wild they would eat seagrasses and algae. Ours love romaine lettuce, bell pepper and other veggies!
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They can live for over 80 years, and grow to 300-400 pounds. They live in warm oceans around the world and migrate a lot.
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"Flying"
Or just resting.
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While spotted eagle rays can seemingly “fly” through the water, they also spend a lot of time feeding and resting on the sea floor.
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When threatened, an eagle ray has 2-6 stinging spines at the base of its tail to use for defense.
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Hammer head
All the better to eat you.
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Broad heads help hunting: Eyes at either end give stereoscopic vision.
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More width allows the shark’s sensing organs to find prey buried in sand.
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Save Sharks
THE THREAT: Many sharks – including hammerheads – are endangered around the world, with declining populations due to overfishing, finning and more.
HOW TO HELP: We’re helping hammerheads by supporting scientists that tag and study them in Hawaii and Baja, Mexico. This helps understand their habitat to better protect them. Your donation can help.
Aquarium Stories
What a year this has been! From clouded leopard AI to a new muskox calf, from Zoolights to HeroRATs and everything in between, we’ve captured this year in our best photos of 2020.
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