a cute one.

There is one biologist at the aquarium in charge of culturing (growing) and caring for the jellyfish. We have three windows, side by side, that show the three main stages of jellyfish development. The biologist was showing a little girl the window containing the very young jellies, and then moved over to the window showing the even younger, first-stage jellies.

Biologist: [pointing to the exhibit] And this is where the baby jellyfish come from!
Little Girl: Is that the hospital?

recognizing shark species.

At Touch-A-Shark:

Woman: Are these sharks going to get bigger?
Me: These sharks are juveniles, so they're going to jet just a little bit bigger.
Woman: Oh, Juveniles. Is that what kind they are?


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Also at Touch-A-Shark:
Little Asian Boy: [Points at Smooth Dogfish shark] Those... those sharks... th... they weird me out... [uses fingers to give himself slanty eyes] because they're Asian.

snacktime.

The other day, I watched a family of three (father, mother, child) sit down on a bench in the aquarium, open a plastic bag, remove three small ears of corn on the cob, and eat them as a snack.