- 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!