The Stingray Beach Club is a great place to start with its bright and airy atmosphere that sets the scene for the touch pool, which is filled with cownose and southern stingrays you can feed and feel.

The allure of Adventure Aquarium goes beyond casual observation it’s an experience best enjoyed by leaning forward to involve all the senses. Let your hand graze over some bamboo and epaulette shark varieties from the Indo-Pacific at the Touch A Shark exhibit. Seeing things like the penguins waddling around and the hippos - which are so cute and adorable but also huge and terrifying - creates a magical humbleness, and building that connection with the Earth and with the ocean is something that is just the most special feeling in the world.” “Yeah, you can watch documentaries on Netflix and on streaming services, but there’s something so special and really humbling about seeing these animals in front of you. “The reaction when people see these animals for the first time is what keeps me coming back to work every day,” said Melissa Patterson, guest experience and events manager at Adventure Aquarium. Whether you discover amazement in the power, the playfulness or just plain prettiness, chances are you’ll walk away from this world-class venue with a renewed appreciation for the diverse wonders of life found beneath the surface. Other colorful exotic creatures, from tropical fish to spiny lobsters, are sure to catch your eye as well in this newly redesigned experience.

Contained within the Pirates Passage section of the aquarium, you’ll instantly spot the striking, zebra-like stripes on its special skin, which is capable of camouflage. Not far from the penguins is another beautiful animal worth admiring: the ever-delicate lined seahorse. If you time your visit just right, you’ll be able to watch as they’re fed a personalized diet of fish, including capelin, herring and anchovies, among others. Known for their striking slate-blue plumage, these precious birds are the smallest penguins in the world and, probably, the most adorable. While not quite a fit for the “one-of-a-kind” category, there are plenty of unusual animals to see as well, like the slithery green moray, purplemouth moray and spotted moray eels, and the oh-so-cute little blue penguins. The recently renovated Hippo Haven exhibit allows people to get nose-to-nose with the 3,000-plus-pound creatures. Adventure Aquarium is one of only two aquariums in North America to house the largest species of hammerhead shark. The recently renovated exhibit allows people to see the 3,000-plus-pound dynamic duo in action within a habitat that resembles their African origins.įor a relative rarity, there’s the Ocean Realm’s Great Hammerhead Shark (named Anchor), a 12-foot-long endangered behemoth that gracefully swims among southern stingrays, sea turtles and silky sharks in 760,000 gallons of seawater. How do you tell the two apart? Well, Genny has a penchant for people-watching and making goofy faces while Button is big into playing with her toys, according to Shawn Danner, a biologist who works mostly with the hippos. Head to Hippo Haven, for example, and you’ll meet Button and Genny: a rare pair of female Nile hippos that love to play by pressing their snouts against the glass to the delight of every visitor who decides to pass. Some are cool (think: poison dart frog and common clownfish), others are quirky (read: the axolotl and chocolate chip sea star - yep, it’s real), while a select few are truly one-of-a-kind they, literally, cannot be found in any other aquarium on Earth. The expansive facility, which rests along the Delaware River in Camden, holds a whopping 15,000 marine species in over 1 million gallons of water. To say that Adventure Aquarium makes a splash is one tsunami of an understatement. Are you ready to dive into an incredible aquatic adventure? As you roam beyond, you’ll be immersed in an experience that’s filled to the gills with creatures that will expand the depths of your understanding. This is where the beauty of the underwater world only begins to unfold before you. In this particular lair, you’ve got unlimited air - and a massive tunnel enclosure made of glass - so there’s no need to scamper. A row of razor-sharp teeth just inches from your face. Suddenly, the lurking shadow catches the corner of your eye, so you turn around. The schools of fish are too mesmerizing to look at as they dance around in the glittering light: a perfect distraction for this predator of the deep to make its approach. The 10-foot-long sand tiger shark creeps slowly closer, but you don’t notice - at least at first. Posted on Januby Hunter Hulbert - Just In Jersey Dive into an underwater world of extraordinary marine life at Adventure Aquarium

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