May 24, 2012
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Sea Lions at the Aquarium
502 Surf Avenue
(at West 8th Street)
Brooklyn, NY 11224
Tel: (718) 265-3474
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Every Friday is pay what you wish from 3 pm until closing.
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OngoingHours
Mon – Fri: 10 am – 6 pmSat, Sun: 10 am – 7 pm
Above hours applicable June-Aug
Spring (April-May8) & Fall hours (Sept-Oct): 10 am–5 pm, Mon–Fri; 10 am–5:30 pm, Weekends & Holidays
Winter hours Nov–March: daily 10 am-4:30 pm
Sat & Sun: 11:45, 1:45 & 4 pm (5:30 pm if enough attendance)
What can crawl like a caterpillar, do a backbend like a gymnast, bark on cue, and dive down to 600 feet in the ocean? Find out at the Wildlife Conservation Society New York Aquarium’s Aquatheater.
Training demonstrations star outgoing and talented California sea lions. Each performance features cool facts about sea lions and their role in the web of life, in addition to music, humor and lots of mischief. Demonstrations are followed by the Sea Lion Encounter ($20).
“Our pinnipeds (the scientific term for sea lions, seals, and walruses) also make great teachers,” said Jon F. Dohlin, aquarium director. “You’ll learn how to make seafood choices that are healthy for the planet, why predators like the great white shark are essential to maintaining a balanced food chain, and how the Wildlife Conservation Society is helping to save threatened marine life and habitats around the globe.”
The Wildlife Conservation Society works around the world to save marine mammals. In Argentina, WCS has helped establish marine reserves to protect breeding colonies of southern elephant seals, South American sea lions and South American fur seals.
- Directions: Subway: F, Q to West 8th Street
About this Organization
New York AquariumThe New York Aquarium, part of the Wildlife Conservation Society, spans 14 beachfront acres in Coney Island. It houses more than 8,000 creatures including freshwater and marine fishes, marine invertebrates, seals, sea otters, walruses, sea lions, sharks and penguins.
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Ongoing Students are introduced to five major marine taxonomic groups-porifera, anthropods, echinoderms, mollusks and cnidarians-and discover the world of invertebrates via dissection, animal-handing and microscope work.
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Ongoing Experience the ecology and wildlife of the coast, a coral reef, sea cliffs and more at the aquarium. Sharks, jellyfish, stingrays, sea otters and penguins are just some of the critters on view. There are shows, a 4-D experience and interactive stations as well.
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Planet Earth: Shallow Seas 4-D Experience
Ongoing Sense the pressure, feel the perils and smell the triumph celebrating the earth in a 4-D adventure that combines the visual drama of a 3-D film with a variety of sensory effects which are built into theater seats and the theater environment.
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