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Zoom Around the Sound hailed a success
Monday, April 11, 2016

The Zoom Around the Sound event has raised more than $15,000 for educational and conservation programmes.


Miracle on the Beach
Monday, April 11, 2016

Green turtles, visitors from the Caribbean, can be seen year round in Bermuda, August 2015 was the first time in over 100 years that green turtles had hatched from eggs laid on the island.


“Exploring Bermuda’s Flying Flowers” Event
Sunday, April 10, 2016

A lecture — “Exploring Bermuda’s Flying Flowers: The Seven Resident Butterflies Of Bermuda” — will be held at 7.00pm at Wednesday April 20th.


WILD Tales Spring 2016
Friday, April 01, 2016

Bermuda Zoological Society's Spring 2016 WILD Tales.


Hawk’s road to recovery
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

A rare Pigeon Hawk has been nursed back to health by staff at the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo after it was found stricken and unable to fly in a garden.



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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.