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Halibut Herald August 29
Halibut Herald August 29
Halibut Herald August 29
On Friday, Nandi was released to test the waters before her official public debut Monday.
Manta rays are listed as a threatened species. The mammoth diamond-shaped animal has a black top and
white bottom with wings that move gracefully up and down as they swim through the water.
Library News
New Books:
• Haida Gwaii: the Queen Charlotte Islands – Dennis Horwood and Tom Parkin (2006)
• Sensuous Seas: tales of a marine biologist – Eugene H. Kaplan (2006)
• Your Inner Fish: a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body – Neil Shubin
(2008)
New DVDs:
• Skana (26 min. 52 sec. 1971) – Collin Hanney’s film, includes Dr. Murray Newman and our
earliest endeavours to keep killer whales in Pender Harbour. We have permission to screen
this film for educational purposes to groups.
Last day to submit your baby beluga photos for the 2008 Baby Beluga Photo Contest!
Please return or renew your overdue library books at your earliest convenience.
Archival Photo
For registration, please go to our website at www.vanaqua.org/cleanup, and register for either
Kitsilano Beach Park North or Kitsilano Beach Park South (both sites are part of the same event).
If you have any questions or if any of the Vancouver Aquarium departments or programs would like to
have a booth or a presence at the event, please contact Maryam at ext. 3765. and at
maryam.dashti@vanaqua.org
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As human population reaches unprecedented levels, we lose unknown numbers of populations and
species every year. Please join us to hear Paul Ehrlich speak about the evolutionary and cultural
forces that made us the planet’s dominant animal. Learn how those forces are affecting the way we
are shaping our world, and how the choices we make in the next decades will impact the planet our
children will inherit.
PAUL R. EHRLICH is Bing Professor of Population Studies and Professor of Biological Sciences at
Stanford University. An expert in the fields of evolution, ecology, taxonomy, and population biology,
Ehrlich has conducted fieldwork from the Arctic and the Antarctic to the tropics, and from high
mountains to the ocean floor. Professor Ehrlich has written more than 800 scientific papers and
popular articles as well as many books, including The Population Bomb. He is a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Volvo Environmental Prize for
Environmental Sciences, and the Blue Planet Prize, and was awarded the first AAAS/Scientific
American Prize for Science in the Service of Humanity.
For Sale
Come visit the Gift Shop this week and check out some of our new and exciting products.
Firstly, we have just received the book “The Rhino with Glue-on Shoes” in which our very own
veterinarian Marty Haulena is featured.
"This is a delightful book. The stories, each amazingly different, are told
with warmth, humor and sensitivity. They are sometimes sad, always
captivating. It is a book you can dip into on a journey or read before sleep
at night. Buy it and give copies to your friends." --Dr. Jane Goodall
"These entertaining essays offer insight into a world of singular strangeness ... modern zoological
medicine in short, a field where the practitioners are as passionate as their patients are unwilling." --
Publisher's Weekly
For all you stuffy lovers out there, check out our adorable Beluga and Baby stuffy, a great gift for
anyone who loves Qila and our feisty new calf! A fantastic way to remember the first summer spent
with our new baby beluga.
We even have new stainless steel water bottles that feature our loveable Milo and Nyack as well our
famous belugas. Look snappy drinking your water, and grab one of these water bottles today.
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