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This Thanksgiving, as you prepare your tender turkey,
fluffy stuffing, buttery mashed potatoes, flaky biscuits and more, a
skeleton crew of Mystic Aquarium animal trainers will be preparing a
feast of their own...for the animals.
What's on the menu, you ask? A delectable selection of
restaurant-quality herring, capelin, squid, anchovies, lake smelt,
silver sides and salmon, all expertly prepared by our animal care
professionals.
- Each
penguin in our colony will be fed up to a pound of fish
- Spanky
the harbor seal and Ripley the California sea lion will eat up
to 20-25 pounds each
- Sam
our fur seal will be fed up to 16 pounds
- Juno
will eat up to 68 pounds of fish - nearly double that of all our
penguins combined
Once the proper amount of food is divvied up, our
skeleton crew enjoy the opportunity to interact with all of the
animals through feeding sessions, even those they normally don't work
with on a regular day! Our sea lion trainers get to work with
belugas, and penguin trainers can interact with the seals. It's a
great way for our trainers to learn from one another and build upon
the relationships held between each department.
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