Zoological sights in Los Angeles

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   Roundhouse Aquarium

   • Los Angeles, USA
   • Sights › Zoologic

   Kids crowd the touch tanks at this tiny pier’s-end aquarium while their parents stare warily at the flickering fins in the 3500-gallon shark tank. Upstairs, smaller tanks hold an eclectic mix of local specimens including the clicking garibaldi and the stinging gorgonian – sometimes seen lurking barside at Zinc.

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   Cabrillo Marine Aquarium

   • Los Angeles, USA
   • Sights › Zoologic

   This city-owned aquarium is the smaller, older, less frantic and high-tech cousin of Long Beach's Aquarium of the Pacific. It's also a lot lighter on your wallet and probably less overwhelming for small children. Spiky urchins, slippery sea cucumbers, magical jellyfish and other local denizens will bring smiles to even the most PlayStation-jaded youngster. Naturalists lead rambles around the rocky tide pools and salt marshes and organize all sorts of other educational programs, including the grunion-watches (April to July).

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   Santa Monica Pier Aquarium

   • Los Angeles, USA
   • Sights › Zoologic

   Peer under the pier – just below the carousel – for Heal the Bay’s kid-friendly touch tanks crawling with critters and crustaceans scooped from the bay. For a fin-filled frenzy, stop by the shark tanks at 3:30pm Sunday for feedings of these multi-fanged beasts.

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   Pavilion of Wings

   • Los Angeles, USA
   • Sights › Zoologic

   Summers at the Natural History Museum of LA County see the opening of the Pavilion of Wings on the South Lawn, an enchanting landscape where some 30 species of butterflies roam freely.

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