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Seattle Aquarium

Seattle Aquarium
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About Seattle Aquarium

The Seattle Aquarium is a public aquarium in Seattle, Washington, United States, located on Pier 59 and 60 on the Elliott Bay waterfront. The aquarium opened in 1977 and is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).

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In 2015, Seattle Aquarium had a Valentine's event — in fact, they have this every year — where you can watch octopuses have sex. The one in 2015 they had to cancel, in fact, due to cannibalism concerns.

from No Such Thing As A Chatty Cow, 2019-08-09 at 00:19:13 · read transcript

Other times Seattle Aquarium came up

  1. This all kind of started. There was an experiment at Seattle Aquarium where they gave child-proof bottles to, um, octopuses to see if they could open them. The first attempt for opening one of these, um, by a Pacific octopus as well, called Billy, it took him 55 minutes to open it, or her, sorry, and within, um, a bit of practice, she could open these within five minutes.

    88: No Such Thing As A Moon Sausage Bullet, 2015-11-20 · listen

  2. The world record for, an octopus opening a jar is 54 seconds. This all kind of started. There was an experiment at Seattle Aquarium where they gave childproof bottles to octopuses to see if they could open them. The first attempt for opening one of these by a Pacific octopus as well called Billy, it took him 55 minutes to open it, or her, sorry, and within a bit of practice, she could open these within five minutes.

    No Such Thing As A Moon Sausage Bullet, 2015-11-20 · listen

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