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Watch videos from our official Vancouver Aquarium YouTube channel to learn more about the unique and often strange or amusing behaviours of marine life, as well as creatures that live above the surface. Watch a hagfish produce kilos of slime, see an anaconda choke its prey, or observe sea otters holding hands. We regularly post new videos to encourage continuous learning, where topics can range from break-through research to rescues of distressed marine mammals.
Explore our comprehensive list of videos covering many different subjects. Learn about the unique habits of killer whales in the wild, find out how much slime a hagfish produces, or see up close footage of a fish surgery in action.
Baby Octopuses at the Vancouver Aquarium
It has been almost seven months since c.c., the giant pacific octopus who lives at the vancouver aquarium, mated and laid eggs. earlier this week, close to 300 of her eggs hatched. the babies are only 5 millimetres in length.
"although it is not unusual for octopus eggs to hatch in aquariums, very ..
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Howe Sound Herring Rebound
Squamish volunteers like jack cooley, and jonn matsen have been nursing herring spawns in squamish harbor for several years now. they realized that herring eggs died and rotted when attached to creosote-soaked pilings, so they started sheathing the pilings with construction shade-cloth. the herrin ..
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Fish Surgery
Surgery on one our fish at the vancouver aquarium.
this red irish lord fish has a life-threatening condition known as egg-binding. without surgery she would most likely die. she is put under anesthetic while our veterinary team operates on her. one month later her stitches are removed. she is rele ..
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northern fur seal pup conservation research
These northern fur seal pups are training to become assistant researchers at the vancouver aquarium
the university of british columbia (ubc) marine mammal research unit, in collaboration with the aquarium, is finding out why the northern fur seal (callorhinus ursinus) population is declining in al ..
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Caiman feeding.mov
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Killer whales hunting greys in Alaska
Killer whales attack and kill grey whales off unimak island in alaska every spring - that's what aquarium scientist, dr. lance barrett-lennard and his colleagues have recently published in the journal marine ecology progress series 421.
this groundbreaking study is first to report that these kille ..
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Gwaii Haanas National Marine Conservation Area
Vancouver aquarium congratulates parks canada and the haida nation for their historic move to establish the new gwaii haanas national marine conservation area and haida heritage site. visit www.pc.gc.ca for more information.
http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cp-nr/release_e.asp?bgid=1352&andor1=bg
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Hagfish Slime
Slime, or mucus is used by many animals both on land and in the sea, but hagfish have the outstanding ability to defend themselves by producing an incredible slime when touched. it comes from the glands along the side of their body, and within minutes literally liters of it can be produced. despit ..
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Beluga Birth Aurora 2009 Vancouver
It's a bouncing baby beluga girl!
aurora gave birth to her latest calf at 3:39 pm, on sunday, june 7, 2009.
this newborn beluga is:
- about 1.3 metres long and weighs roughly 50 kg (at birth)
- slate grey -- it will gradually lighten as it matures
- wrinkled for the first few weeks
- adorable
tra ..
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Endangered Tuna
Atlantic tuna is on the brink of extinction. find out why. part of the vancouver aquariums environmental news series.
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Humpback lunge-feeding off British Columbia
This lunge-feeding humpback whale was filmed in juan perez sound in the proposed gwaii haanas national marine conservation area reserve, queen charlotte islands, british columbia.
it's likely feeding on a soup of krill, pacific herring and pacific sardines (aka pilchards). after disappearing for al ..
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Beluga Birth
It's a bouncing baby beluga!
qila gave birth to her first calf at 4:28 pm tuesday, june 10, 2008.
this newborn beluga is:
about 1.5 metres long and weighs more than 50 kilograms (at birth)
slate grey -- it will gradually lighten as it matures
wrinkled for the first few weeks
adorable
qila was ..
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Comb Jellies
Comb jellies -- phylum ctenophora
comb jellies are beautiful animals with tiny, hair-like structures arranged in eight rows like the teeth of a comb. as they swim, the rows diffract light to create a shimmering display of colours.
some comb jellies species are voracious predators and will eat ..
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False Tomato Frog
Frogs forever?
http://www.vanaqua.org/frogs/
false tomato frog (dyscophus guineti)
the world is facing what may be the single largest mass extinction event since the time of the dinosaurs: as many as half of the world's 6,000 known amphibian species could be wiped out in our lifetimes.
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Fur Seal Decline
There is something wrong here. the northern fur seal population on st. paul, the largest of alaska's pribolof islands, has fallen by over 70%. this has a worldwide impact as 70% of the worlds fur seal population breeds here. there are now fewer than 1 million northern fur seals left.
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