Animal Group Characteristics
The largest group of organisms on the planet.
What are invertebrates?
This building opened up in 2018 and contains over 800,000 gallons of water in all its exhibits.
What is Ocean Wonders: Sharks?
Sea turtles have an a amazing adaptation, their shell. This shell is a part of their skeletal structure and cannot be changed out of because this is attached directly to it.
What is their backbone/vertebrae?
It's the material that makes up the entire skeleton of sharks, rays, skates, and chimeras.
What is cartilage?
These are the two groups of vertebrates that are fully endothermic.
What are birds & mammals?
Adaptations that are unique to mammals and only mammals.
What are fur/hair body covering and nourishing young with milk?
What is Glover's Reef?
Cichlids are a diverse group of fish that are featured in our African Lakes exhibit and spotlight these two lakes.
What is Lake Malawi and Lake Victoria?
Quick, its one of the advantages of having dermal denticles covering your body!
What is the ability to swim faster or shed the growth of algae/bacteria.
These animals are only restricted to the southern hemisphere. You will not find them hanging out with Santa.
What are penguins?
There are so many egg-ceptions to the rules. This group of vertebrate animals always follows the rules when it comes to reproduction; they only reproduce in this one way.
What are birds?
Representing the rocky shores and sharing the animals that occupy these habitats around the world, this exhibit opened in 1993.
What is Sea Cliffs?
Two species of sea turtles reside here at the aquarium, around the world this number of sea turtle species can be found roaming our oceans.
What is 7?
Shocking! Sharks can sense these using their ampulle of Lorenzini.
What are electrical impulses?
These marine mammals are native to our waters in the winter and can be seen at NY Aquarium year round.
What are harbor seals?
True seals, eared seals, and walruses are characterized by their flippered limbs. What grouping on mammals do they belong to?
What are pinnipeds?
This space features the corals AND their zooxanthellae, a type of algae that lives within the coral polyps.
What is the Coral Triangle?
These two fish are at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to their smile! These two fish of the Amazon are closely related but their dietary preferences are very different.
What are Pacu & Piranha?
This method of breathing used by the nurse shark to sit and remain at rest by day until activity picks up at night.
What is buccal pumping?
These animals are an SSP (Species survival plan) animal and a SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) species. They breed here regularly and can be heard in the early morning braying like a donkey.
What are African Penguins?
Amphibians, reptiles, and some fish have this characteristic in common. But don't give them to cold shoulder because of it!
What is they are ectothermic?
Meaning a curve in the coastline, this exhibit features local species that frequent NY waters in the summer season.
What is New York Bight?
These ancient fish have bony scutes on their bodies, occupy fresh or salt water depending on their life stage, and happily call the Hudson and its tributaries home.
What are Atlantic Sturgeon?
on average 6 people a year are killed by sharks. It's a drop in the bucket compared to this number of sharks killed by humans for food, finning, and as bycatch.
What is 100,000,000
All the males of these two marine mammal species exhibited in Sea Cliffs are all rescued animals from the wild who can not be released due to their situations.
What are California Sea Lions and California Sea otters?