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Bermuda Zoological Society To Hold Shark Week
Tuesday, June 01, 2021

As part of the World Ocean Day celebration, the Bermuda Zoological Society [BZS] will be hosting the “Shark Week” virtually from June 7th-11th.


New generation of coconut palm trees planted at BAMZ
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

A new generation of coconut palm trees have been planted around the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo.


BZS Plants Coconut Palms In Flatt’s Village
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Winnie celebrates 103rd birthday with a tree planting
Friday, April 16, 2021

Centenarian Winnie Oatley celebrated her 103rd birthday by planting a cedar tree at a nature reserve,


Winnie Oatley Plants Tree For 103rd Birthday
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Winnie Oatley recently celebrated her 103rd birthday by planting a cedar tree on Trunk Island in Harrington Sound, the Bermuda Zoological Society’s [BZS] “Living Classroom”.



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Birthday surprise for Pebbles the seal
Royal Gazette
Friday, May 13, 2016

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Happy birthday!: aquarist Kascia White presents Pebbles with her cake of fish

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Special day: Pebbles is treated to some fish

It’s not every animal that is treated to a birthday surprise.

But for Pebbles the Atlantic harbour seal, it must have felt like all her birthdays had come at once on Wednesday when she was given a frozen cake of fish.

All the other seals at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo were kept to one side as staff gathered to wish the 23-year-old seal happy birthday.

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Feeding time: head aquarist Lisa Ray with Pebbles as a pup

Pebbles, who was born at BAMZ in 1993, is the youngest of the aquarium’s seals and was hand-reared from two days old.

In the wild, the average lifespan of an Atlantic harbour seal is about 25 years.