...and another! what are the chances?

Creature Feature is an exhibit where you can touch tide pool animals (sea stars, etc). Next to Creature Feature is the Culture Kitchen, a functioning space in which the biologists grow artemia, aka brine shrimp, aka sea monkeys to be fed to the fish. The artemia are growing in upside-down pyramid shaped plastic containers. Since there are billions of orangey-pink artemia in the water, it just looks like orangey-pink water.

Kid at Creature Feature: That's urine.
Kid's father: What?
Kid: It's urine!

finally, a pee story.

I am incredibly sad to say I was not present for this. A coworker of mine was facilitating the touch-a-shark exhibit, a knee-height pool about 6 feet across and 20 feet long, containing about 20 small sharks. A group of special needs people, who were high-school age or perhaps slightly older, and their chaperones came into the exhibit and began touching sharks without incident. Then, without warning, one of the kids inserted his thumb into the waistband of his sweatpants, yanked them down a few inches, and began urinating into touch-a-shark. My coworker's response was to yell "Hey! Stop him! You gotta stop him right now!" at which point the chaperones stopped him. It is still unclear whether the boy finished his business or was forced to stop mid-stream. There were families present, and children were quickly whisked away by their shocked parents. The exhibit was closed for about an hour so that water quality could be checked and so that the water filters could work their magic.

This, as far as I've heard, is the only time in the Aquarium's 17-year history that this has happened, and I'm sorry I wasn't there to see it.