- The siphon is apparently her mouth
and the siphon is also
where waste is excreted,
so I don't mean to call
Marina a potty-mouth
but that's what the game is telling me.
I'm just a biologist
looking at clues there.
(upbeat music)
My name is Pat, I'm one half
of the social media team
of the Monterey Bay Aquarium,
and joining me is of
course the better half,
the "fin-tastic" half, Emily!
- Hey Pat! Pat and I are
both scientists by trade
and social media professionals
by art and by pun.
Today we're going to go to the museum,
we're going to do some fishing,
we're going to do some diving,
and evaluate some of the natural history
that is in the game.
I found the strongest rock in the ocean.
- The one with all the mussels on it?
- [In Unison] Yeah.
- Who do we got? A little conch?
Oh it's our whelk of knowledge.
- I love the detail in it,
and it even has its little operculum.
- The Animal Crossing models
are just so amazingly well-done
the details are perfect on them.
(Gasps)
Giant clam Emily!
The game makes it harder for
you to catch the rare items,
but if you were going after
a giant clam in the wild,
- You wouldn't have to work that hard.
- Oh whoa!
Often you'll see puffer fish
depicted in their puffed-up state,
we have an unofficial movement
that we're trying to start
which is "unpuff the puff",
an inflated puffer fish
is a sad puffer fish.
Let your friends know,
don't draw a happy puffer fish puffed up.
- It's been a little odd
to see that you can catch
octopus when you're diving in the game
and also have octopus neighbors.
I decided to give them all
octopus pets as a gift,
and it was very odd to
see their responses,
in particular Marina said
she can't wait to learn more
about them.
- Maybe it's something
about getting to know them
on a deeper personal level,
like life philosophies,
political inclinations...
- It's a whole lot of fun
to pick up all the shells
in the game.
Just a quick note, if you
are on the beach looking at
all the beautiful shells,
to leave them there,
they can become homes for other animals,
eventually they'll break
down and become the beautiful
sand you have on the beaches as well.
A lot of times, beaches are protected,
you're not actually supposed
to collect shells from beaches.
- Yes yes yes yes!
- I think I might just be a remora again.
[In Unison] Oh!
- Not even a shark! Emily, Emily, Emily!
Simply the greatest organism
that is ever swam this ocean.
- Mola mola, a fish so nice
that they named it twice.
This is the largest bony fish
on earth, or the heaviest
bony fish on earth,
they can get to be over 5 thousand pounds
when they are full-grown.
Theses are amazing animals,
they're actually one of the most
modern fish on our planet,
even though they look
completely ancient and
pre-historic and just clumsy.
Scientists for a really long
time, said no way this could
be a fish but these are
amazing swimmers in our ocean.
In fact they are so incredible
at swimming that they can
breach out of the water,
they can launch those big
awkwardly shaped bodies
completely out of the ocean.
- You may of heard a circus of puffins,
a parliament of owls,
there isn't really a
collective noun for molas,
but we have decided that
the collective noun,
if you have a group of mola together,
you're looking at a guac of mola.
And this also means that if
you have a mole of mola mola,
that means you have in front of you,
avocados number of mola.
So cool, so this exhibit here
is really reminiscent of the
open sea exhibit that we have
at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
And we've got a few in here in game
that we've had at the aquarium.
One of my favorites in here is
that we're actually the only
aquarium in the world to
successfully exhibit a juvenile
white shark, we've had six.
We've had them at the aquarium
to do some white shark
physiology research.
Try to figure out how
much energy white sharks
need to grow.
- I think the one thing
that we need do need
to point out in here is that
we do have predator and prey
all living together inside of the exhibit.
The number one questions that
we get at the aquarium is
hey why isn't that animal
eating that other animal.
And mostly it would have to
do with how well you're taking
care of all the animals and
how often you are feeding them.
So Blathers would have a very
very busy day here at the
aquarium,
unless he has some super employees
that we don't know about.
- This is an absolute
nightmare, by the way,
from an aquarium design standpoint.
You don't see too many exhibits
where people can walk on top of them,
because people scratch the
exhibits that they walk on.
- For the most part, this is
a really accurate exhibit.
The one fish to me that
just really stands out
is the lion fish.
This is the preferred
habitat that lion fish
would want to be in.
This would be where the
game developers should have
or Blathers should have put the lion fish.
- Anyway, nobody asked us.
- I mean the number one thing
I love about the barreleye's
representation in this game
is that they got the scale
like spot on.
- It's good to get the scales right
when they're doing the fish.
- Yeah when you're talking about fish.
Exactly, just so cute.
- It would be wrong to call it an alien
because it is living
in the largest habitat
that we have on earth.
95% of the real estate on
our planet is the deep sea.
99% of the real estate is in the ocean.
So where we live, we're
the 1% here on land
thinking we've got things figured out
and that we know what it
means to be a earthling.
Through the power of editing,
we have made our way
back out of the museum.
We could have spent many hours in there.
- Just a huge shout
out to Animal Crossing,
everything has been so
incredibly detailed,
the facts and information
that Blathers can give you
about all the animals is a
joy to watch and a joy to
participate in.
From a scientific perspective,
definitely giving the game
12/10...
- Absolutely.
- Just for nailing all of
the incredible detail for the
marine biology that's in the game.
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[In Unison] Woo! Bye!
