"Ah! The planet's alive!" the boys scream. What a weird name for an aquarium. But, in typical Utah fashion, it was incredibly well-done. I really liked the electric eel tank with the light-up display showing the level of voltage in the tank. Then there were two metal contact points and if you touched both of them, you got quite a zap! Talk about interactive! I also like the fish that crawled up out of the water. For some reason I thought that was a theoretical link in the evolutionary chain, not a living specimen! They also had a really neat wing of fish that were only in Utah and a great education center about the Salt Lake wetlands. Did you know that 80% of all the animals in Utah live in wetlands and that 60% of the wetlands are on the shores of the Great Salt Lake? Makes me a little less critical of the holdup on that Legacy Highway over the wetlands. Thanks Cara, Ally and Tyson for taking us there!
Cresap Family
Sunday, August 14, 2011
The Living Planet Aquarium
"Ah! The planet's alive!" the boys scream. What a weird name for an aquarium. But, in typical Utah fashion, it was incredibly well-done. I really liked the electric eel tank with the light-up display showing the level of voltage in the tank. Then there were two metal contact points and if you touched both of them, you got quite a zap! Talk about interactive! I also like the fish that crawled up out of the water. For some reason I thought that was a theoretical link in the evolutionary chain, not a living specimen! They also had a really neat wing of fish that were only in Utah and a great education center about the Salt Lake wetlands. Did you know that 80% of all the animals in Utah live in wetlands and that 60% of the wetlands are on the shores of the Great Salt Lake? Makes me a little less critical of the holdup on that Legacy Highway over the wetlands. Thanks Cara, Ally and Tyson for taking us there!
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