Aquariums and Zoos - A Photo Thread - Page 14

geomorph · #**261** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 7:22 AM**

Aquarium or Zoo: Family Farm at Milwaukee County Zoo
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

All photos taken by geomorph in 2010.

geomorph · #**262** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 7:34 AM**

Aquarium or Zoo: Children's Zoo at Dallas Zoo
Location: Dallas, Texas

All photos taken by geomorph in 2013.

geomorph · #**263** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 7:43 AM**

Aquarium or Zoo: Grassmere Historic Home and Farm at Nashville Zoo
Location: Nashville, Tennessee

All photos taken by geomorph in 2018.

geomorph · #**264** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 7:48 AM**

Aquarium or Zoo: Family Farm at Woodland Park Zoo
Location: Seattle, Washington

All photos taken by geomorph in 2009.

geomorph · #**265** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 7:52 AM**

Aquarium or Zoo: Family Farm at San Francisco Zoo
Location: San Francisco, California

All photos taken by geomorph in 2010.

geomorph · #**266** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 8:01 AM**

Aquarium or Zoo: Discovery Barn at Kansas City Zoo
Location: Kansas City, Missouri

Photo taken by geomorph in 2009.

geomorph · #**267** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 8:07 AM**

Aquarium or Zoo: Family Farm at Oregon Zoo
Location: Portland, Oregon

All photos taken by geomorph in 2009.

geomorph · #**268** Posted **Jan 10, 2020, 8:14 AM**

Aquarium or Zoo: Family Farm at Santa Ana Zoo At Prentice Park
Location: Santa Ana, California

All photos taken by geomorph in 2010.

geomorph · #**269** Posted **Jan 15, 2020, 1:25 AM**

Aquarium or Zoo: South Carolina Aquarium
Location: Charleston, South Carolina

All photos taken by geomorph in 2019.

geomorph · #**270** Posted **Jan 23, 2020, 6:50 AM**

Aquarium or Zoo: Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science
Location: Miami, Florida

All photos taken by geomorph in 2019.

geomorph · #**271** Posted **Feb 3, 2020, 1:36 AM**

Aquarium or Zoo: Florida Aquarium
Location: Tampa, Florida

For previous photos of this aquarium, see post #18 of this thread.

All photos taken by geomorph in 2019.

geomorph · #**272** Posted **Feb 18, 2020, 4:07 AM**

Aquarium or Zoo: SEA LIFE Charlotte-Concord
Location: Concord, North Carolina

All photos taken by geomorph in 2019.

Renn · #**273** Posted **Feb 29, 2020, 7:17 PM**

Ripley's Aquarium, Toronto.

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geomorph · #**274** Posted **Feb 29, 2020, 9:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Renn

Ripley's Aquarium, Toronto.

That looks like a bold façade that is very fitting with the area's recent developments. It was not there when I visited in 2009, was that plot of land just a grassy field at the time? I seem to recall that.

geomorph · #**275** Posted **Mar 19, 2020, 9:42 PM**

Aquarium or Zoo: Entrance Sign at Sedgwick County Zoo
Location: Wichita, Kansas

Photo taken by geomorph in 2018.

geomorph · #**276** Posted **Mar 19, 2020, 9:46 PM**

Aquarium or Zoo: African Veldt at Sedgwick County Zoo
Location: Wichita, Kansas

All photos taken by geomorph in 2018.

mrnyc · #**277** Posted **Mar 20, 2020, 3:04 AM**

cleveland aquarium -- i hope the fish like holidays!

geomorph · #**278** Posted **Mar 20, 2020, 9:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by mrnyc

cleveland aquarium -- i hope the fish like holidays!

I don't think I have ever seen any holiday displays in all the aquariums I have visited! I went to Cleveland Aquarium several years ago but did not take photos so I have never featured it in this thread. It is not one of the top tier facilities I have been to but still enjoyable.

bilbao58 · #**279** Posted **Mar 21, 2020, 7:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by geomorph

Aquarium or Zoo: Downtown Aquarium Houston
Location: Houston, Texas

This thread has shown me that this is not the only hideous aquarium in the country.

Am I the only one who thinks it's bizarre for an aquarium to include a seafood restaurant? "Look kiddies! Such beautiful sea creatures! Let's go eat some, now!"

geomorph · #**280** Posted **Mar 21, 2020, 10:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by bilbao58

This thread has shown me that this is not the only hideous aquarium in the country.

Am I the only one who thinks it's bizarre for an aquarium to include a seafood restaurant? "Look kiddies! Such beautiful sea creatures! Let's go eat some, now!"

Downtown Aquarium Houston always jumps to my mind when I think of a tacky aquarium exterior too! The same company's Downtown Aquarium Denver is much more sleek and attractive, but was originally built by a different group before being taken over by this one.

As for general aquarium café food, most of the fish served are species not commonly kept in an aquarium but there are exceptions. Downtown Aquarium Houston and Denver both have table-service restaurants with a focus on fish so they are especially good examples of the possible hypocrisy of the meal. By that token many zoos have farm areas that often contain cows, pigs and chickens; guess what is on the menu in a typical zoo café? In all my zoo visits I think I have never seen an entirely vegetarian, much less pescatarian, café menu. I am glad I have never seen cape buffalo, red river hog, or junglefowl on a menu in a zoo!