Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Location | Monterey, Monterey County, California, Pacific States Region | ||||
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Main entrance in 2016, featuring the remodeled façade and fiberglass smokestacks of the Hovden Cannery
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Aquarium visitors gaze up through large windows into the 28-foot-tall Kelp Forest exhibit, containing giant kelp and a few schools of fishes
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Visitors look through a very large window into an aquarium containing a school of Pacific sardines
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Plumose anemones, a rock scallop, a bat star, sponges, and other cold-water invertebrates native to Monterey Bay
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Pacific coral reef community containing living corals
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African penguins on exhibit
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A circular exhibit at the entrance to the Open Sea wing contains schooling Pacific sardines.
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an exhibit demonstrates the streamlined bodies of Pacific mackerel.
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Pacific sea nettles in a long kreisel tank
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Sheephead fish