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I vaguely recall going to the Vancouver Aquarium on a field trip back when I was a wee lad in Langley. I don't really have a good reason not to have gone back as an adult - in fact I think I remember trying to once, but it was either closed or almost closing time - but I really should. Now that my nephews and nieces are getting to be a few years old, perhaps I should be the fun uncle and take one of them there.
Or maybe after seeing this photograph from d.a.j.k. I might just go down there for a visit with or without them. And then go back again with them.
That is, as long as there is a fence between myself and this Steller Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus, for you Latin fans out there). This is one of five female sea lions that are living at the Aquarium (Tasu, Rogue, Willo, Izzy and Ashby), and all five are part of a joint research effort between the Aquarium and UBC to try and determine the cause of the collapse of the Steller sea lion population in Alaska.
On a day like today, aren't you glad you aren't a fish?
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