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Top lionfish experts to help BermudaFriday, October 05, 2012
FRIDAY, OCT. 5: The Western Atlantic’s leading authorities on lionfish management are to run a two-day workshop with some of the island’s key environmental figures next week.
Story of the cahow goes international
Friday, October 05, 2012
FRIDAY, OCT. 5: The story of how Bermuda’s cahow was brought back from the brink of extinction will hit bookstores across the world next week.
Popular Zoological Society employee dies of cancer
Friday, September 28, 2012
Friends and family yesterday paid tribute to Bermuda Zoological Society’s educational boat captain Tim Hasselbring, who has died from cancer aged 38.
Young dad's death devastates family
Friday, September 28, 2012
FRIDAY, SEPT. 28: A heartbroken wife has spoken of her family’s devastating loss after the death of her husband from cancer.
'A visionary with an infectious enthusiasm for life'
Friday, September 28, 2012
FRIDAY, SEPT. 28: Tributes from Tim Hasselbring’s close friends and colleagues have poured in from across the island in the wake of his death.
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All the latest updates and news from the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum, and Zoo, one of Bermuda's leading visitor attractions!
Happy birthday!: aquarist Kascia White presents Pebbles with her cake of fish
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.
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.