Alabama’s Aquarium at the disealab has reopened its doors after a makeover that has brightened its look and freshened the way it presents nature, science and the pure fascination of exotic sea life brought close enough to touch! 🐢🐠 Have you ever been?
Alabama’s Aquarium at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab has opened its doors after a makeover that has brightened its look and freshened the way it presents nature, science and the pure fascination of exotic sea life brought close enough to touch.
Valentine said the remodeling cost “several hundred thousand dollars” and had been in the works for at least three years. It didn’t add any new aquarium features to the facility, he said, but it did update old displays to represent current scientific understanding. One example: A display of juvenile Mississippi Diamondback Terrapins includes information on the work of Thane Wibbels, a Sea Lab-affiliated researcher at UAB. Under Wibbels’ care, the tortoises are incubated and hatched in a lab. They’re cared for until they’re too big to interest most of their natural predators, then tagged and returned to their habitat. Other exhibitions spotlight legendary naturalist E.O.
Valentine said recent marketing research has shown him that the target audience isn’t predominantly limited to the I-10 corridor, as Sea Lab officials used to think. “It’s the entire Midwest. It goes as far north as Minneapolis,” he said. “St. Louis, Dallas.”“We’re proud to have the sea lab and the aquarium here on the island,” he said. “It’s always been a popular draw and I think folks are going to be real excited to get out and see all the new stuff that they now have.
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