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Two Lodged Fishing Hooks Removed From Rescued Green Sea Turtle At SeaWorld Orlando
On Thursday morning a veterinarian from SeaWorld Orlando performed emergency surgery on a rescued sea turtle, removing fishing hooks from its throat and eye socket. The turtle underwent surgery following x-rays and blood work evaluation. According to the veterinarian who performed the procedure, Dr. Michelle Davis, both of the fishing hooks were successfully removed – […]
A Is For Aardvark… Busch Gardens Welcomes Aardvark Baby
Busch Gardens in Florida has welcomed its newest member: a baby aardvark. The healthy baby is expected to grow to weigh more than eight stone within its first year of life. Aardvarks are solitary by nature, and aardvark births are not common. This is the fourth baby born at the park born to parents “Izzy” […]
Orphaned Baby Manatee Doing Well At SeaWorld Orlando
An orphaned nine-week-old female baby manatee is fed from a bottle by a member of the Animal Rescue Team at SeaWorld Orlando. The calf, which was rescued on 21 July from the Indian River in Port St. John, Florida, is being bottle fed by staff every three hours and is almost ready to start eating […]
SeaWorld Announces First Of Its Kind Killer Whale Environment And More Than $10m For Research & Conservation Projects
15th August 2014– SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. announced today that it plans to build new, first-of-its-kind killer whale environments and that it will fund new programmes to protect ocean health and killer whales in the wild. The new projects will build on SeaWorld’s legacy of providing state-of-the-art, innovative homes for its animals, and will offer park guests […]
What Came First – The Penguin Or The Egg?
The world’s first penguin conceived using artificial insemination with frozen-then-thawed semen, aimed at maximising the genetic diversity of penguin species, has joined SeaWorld’s other Magellanic penguins on display at the park in San Diego. The bird was hatchedin May and has been hand-reared by animal experts in the Penguin Encounter nursery where she was fed […]
Recycled Theme Park Maps Used To Make Jewellery
Florida theme park, Busch Gardens Tampa, has come up with a novel way of recycling used printed maps and brochures. Old collateral is sent to Uganda and Kenya where they measured, cut, rolled and set by hand, creating colourful, bespoke fair trade beads by a team of people including a group of Maasai warriors. Guests […]
Discovery Cove Named The World’s Top Amusement Park Again
TripAdvisor users have named Discovery Cove in Orlando the number one amusement park in the world for the second year in a row. The all-inclusive tropical oasis in the heart of Orlando, where guests can swim with dolphins and encounter exotic animals, came out on top in the 2014 TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards’ Amusement Parks […]
First Refillable Cups Made From Plants Available At SeaWorld Parks
The first refillable plastic cup made from plant-based materials is now available in all SeaWorld and Busch Gardens parks across the U.S. The reusable, 100 per cent recyclable plastic cup is manufactured using bespoke PlantBottle packaging technology from the company’s beverage partner, Coca-Cola. “Working together, our two companies are using our resources and reach to […]
Paralympic Swimmer Ticks Off Visual Bucket List With Beluga Interaction
13-year-old Paralympic swimmer and philanthropist, McClain Hermes, is suffering from progressive vision loss. After being told by doctors that she had less than two years before losing her sight entirely, Hermes has been on a quest to create lasting, visual memories. On her visual bucket list before she loses her sight, Hermes has listed National […]