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Did you realize the Tennessee Aquarium is home to the largest collection of freshwater turtles at a public institution in North America? Yessiree, we're really fond of our chelonians (read: tortoises and turtles) here, so we invited our resident herp expert to help us shellebrate these amazing reptiles.
(And no, we can't promise those are the last puns you'll encounter during this slightly-longer-than-normal episode.)
Episode cast
Casey Phillips, communications specialist and host
Bill Hughes, herpetology collection coordinator
With Halloween just around the corner, many of our minds are drawn to all things spooktacular. To many people, the spookiest of spooks — and the source of the most common animal-centric phobias — are snakes and spiders. But do these creepy, slithery, jittery critters deserve their bad reputation...
Published 10/30/24
Did you realize it's legal to keep lemurs as pets in Tennessee (and several other American states)? Yeah, we were shocked, too. Trust us, though, you don't want to go down that path for a lot of reasons.
In this week's episode, we've brought in one of our lemur caretakers to explain why these...
Published 10/16/24