New Babies! Exhibits Open Now

May 26, 2022

Baby sea otter pups. Miniature sea jellies the size of a pea. Tiny baby cuttlefish. Meet these new babies and many more at the Aquarium of the Pacific this summer in the new Babies! exhibits, open now. Visit exhibits featuring baby animals and learn how we care for them at the Aquarium in the Babies! Gallery inside Pacific Visions on the second floor. The gallery features a jelly lab, where you can see how we grow baby sea jellies and the early stages of their life cycle. Learn about various ocean habitats that function as nurseries for baby animals, including mangroves, coral reefs, and seagrass beds, and see the babies that grow up there.

The Babies! Gallery also features stories about our major achievements, such as being the first to breed zebra sharks via artificial insemination, and significant births, like Shelby the harbor seal’s three pups and our Magellanic penguin chicks. Learn about the special care babies receive at the Aquarium, from hand-feeding baby birds with syringes to providing care twenty-four hours a day for baby sea otters. Plus, find out about our involvement in sea otter surrogacy to help rehabilitate stranded sea otter pups for release. Meet our adorable sea otter pups in the Sea Otter Habitat in the Northern Pacific Gallery.

The new exhibits highlight our breeding programs and how they help us minimize our environmental impact and contribute to important ocean conservation efforts. Learn about our breakthroughs in reproduction and how this helps reduce our reliance on collecting wild animals. And find out about the endangered animal babies that live at the Aquarium receiving special care to help rebuild their wild populations.