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The Podcast Aquatic

Tennessee Aquarium

The official podcast of the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Gain new insights into the animals — even the human kind — living and working in one of the world"s largest freshwater-focused aquariums!

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00:51:05

A Classroom Designed By (And For) Teachers

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2025/11/19

When you were a student — assuming you aren't still one — did you ever imagine that your teacher lived at your school? Sometimes, educators can give so much of their time and energy (and occasionally their money) to their craft that it can certainly seem like a school is where they call home. In reality, many teachers feel hamstrung at having to adapt their methods to their classroom facilities, working around inadequacies or equipment that doesn't quite meet their own needs or those of

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00:55:26

A Dream Fur-filled feat. Wild Kingdom's Dr. Rae

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2025/11/12

All her life, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant was focused on one career ambition: to host a nature series like those that had so stoked her passion for animals early in life. Decades later, Dr. Rae was an author and host to a hit podcast with a long list of academic achievements to her name. She was content and had come to terms with the thought that she might not be destined to grace the silver screen.And then NBC came calling with an offer to co-helm one of the most well-respected, storied nature series to

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01:03:56

Gabbin' About Gar feat. Dr. Solomon David

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2025/11/05

There are some animals that don’t deal well with change. Or rather, they seem to somehow avoid being touched by the passage of time like they’re role playing as Peter Pan or Dorian Gray. These lurkers on the edges of the evolutionary flow are what scientists have catchingly termed “living fossils.” One of the most well-known examples of being adverse-to-change are the lepisosteiformes, the taxonomic order of fishes more commonly known as “gars.”These toothy-snooted, predominantly freshwater

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01:06:16

Spooky Season Special: Appalachian Animal Mythbusters

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2025/10/29

Appalachia is an ancient place. That's a fact. Whether your roots in this part of the world run deep, you just moved here or you're merely passing through, the feeling of age in this rippled, time-worn landscape is palpable, especially when you find yourself traipsing off the trail. The animals that dwell in the deep lakes and far-flung hollers betwixt Appalachia's mountains have birthed many tall tales and legends. And as it turns out, some of them might even have a kernel of truth to

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01:01:33

25 Years Of Raising Tennessee Dinosaurs

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2025/10/22

For a fish that first appeared alongside dinosaurs and survived the calamity that wiped them out, the Lake Sturgeon has had a hard last half-century in Tennessee. Once abundant in the state's waterways, wild Lake Sturgeon were last seen in Tennessee in 1963. In 1998, the Tennessee Aquarium was among the organizations that founded the Lake Sturgeon Working Group. Since then, the group members have been hard at work raising and releasing baby Lake Sturgeon in hopes of re-establishing a stable wild

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00:35:26

The Gold Standard (feat. AZA President Dan Ashe)

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2025/10/15

To the general public, the acronym "AZA" might be largely meaningless, but in the zoo and aquarium world, it's associated with the gold standard by which all aspects of a zoological organization is measured, especially the animals' well being. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums was founded more than 100 years ago in 1924. It now comprises more than 9,000 individual members and has accredited more than 250 institutions worldwide. In this episode — recorded live at AZA's annual conference in Tampa,

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00:12:47

Mic Droplet: Nine Brains Worth of Crazy 🐙 Facts

The Podcast Aquatic ·

2025/10/08

From impossibly flexible, boneless bodies and mastery of camouflage to an over-abundance of brains and hearts, octopuses are like aliens come down from on high to boggle the minds of biologists. In this short-form, Mic Droplet episode of the podcast, the Aquarium’s resident octopus specialist helps celebrate World Octopus Day by ticking off a few of the most-noteworthy facts about these amazing cephalopods and explains how in the actual heck you weigh a 50-pound octopus. See what a morning in the

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00:50:11

The Royal Majesty of Monarch Butterflies

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2025/10/03

When it comes to the most impressive migrations in the animal kingdom , there are a few obvious standouts: the pole-to-pole voyage of the Arctic Tern; the horizon-spanning race of Wildebeests across the Serengeti; the bear-dodging spawning runs of Chinook Salmon.In the insect world, however, pretty much everything pales in comparison to the daunting voyage of Monarch Butterflies from Central Mexico to Canada and back again. Every year, these tiny, beautiful insects embark on this trip, which takes

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01:01:15

Meet Cristina Zenato, "The Shark Listener"

The Podcast Aquatic ·

2025/09/25

It’s pretty much inarguable that sharks get a bad rap. In a given year, a handful of humans are bitten by sharks, and of these, an even smaller number result in serious injuries or fatalities. Flip the script, however, and sharks are far more likely to be the victims of "human attacks." Most data suggest about 100 MILLION sharks die each year due to intentional harvest, commercial by-catch or other human activity. Yet despite this decidedly lop-sided relationship, many of us continue to

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01:01:03

In the "Danger" Zone

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2025/09/17

At the Aquarium, we have animals of all sorts, from the beautiful and benign to graceful and powerful. Some of our residents could even, in some circumstances, be considered "dangerous." How, then, do you see to the needs of species whose adaptations present a serious risk to their caretakers? What tools do you need? What mindset do you have to adopt? In this episode, three caretakers of animals such as Electric Eels, Pacific Sea Nettles, American Alligators and ... River Otters? ... talk

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00:51:43

Building An Aquarium For Everyone

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2025/09/10

Every year, hundreds of thousands of visitors explore the galleries of the Tennessee Aquarium. The hope is that those experiences help guests to form a meaningful bond with the natural world and to better understand the importance of freshwater and how our behavior impacts it. That aim is the same for every guest, regardless of their sensory challenges or whether they are a person living with an impairment. In this episode, we talk about the efforts the Aquarium has made to improve accessibility,

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00:09:53

Mic Droplet: What the Heck is Leucism?

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2025/09/03

If you're ever in the wild and encounter an animal that looks ghost-like — pale skin, scales or fur — your immediate thought might be that this is an example of albinism. Look a little closer, though, and there may be some tell-tale signs that you've actually chanced on something different, if just as interesting.In our first-ever Mic Droplet, a shorter-format version of The Podcast Aquatic you know and love, we chat about leucism, how it differs from albinism and an exciting new opportunity

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00:58:34

Pike-ture Perfect

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2025/08/27

Because many of the animals are on the other side of a layer of soundproof acrylic, exploring an aquarium is an experience that is intensely visual for most guests. Combined with the ever-increasing capabilities of the cameras in most phones, it's no surprise, then, that some of the most cherished souvenirs taken home by most visitors are selfies and snapshots. But what if you want to level up your photography game so those images truly shine? In this episode, two Aquarium staff photographers — one

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00:57:02

An Alliance Worth Shell-ebrating

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2025/08/20

From loss of habitat to collection to supply the pet and medicinal trade, turtles all over the world are in serious trouble. Fortunately, turtles have organizations like the Turtle Survival Alliance looking out for them. From its home in Charleston, South Carolina, to operations in more than 30 countries, the TSA is on the frontlines of breeding and protecting critically endangered turtles. They're also a long-time collaborator with the Tennessee Aquarium, which partners with the TSA in the

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00:47:51

The Pride of the Gulf

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2025/08/13

Invasive Lionfish have been a big problem in the Gulf for decades. These beautiful, venomous visitors from the Indopacific wreak havoc on native fish populations. A single female is capable of producing 50,000 eggs every three days for her entire life, and once grown, Lionfish lack any natural predators to keep their populations from spiraling out of control. Like many ecological conundrums, the presence of Lionfish in the Gulf is thought to be the result of human activity and may require human

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00:48:54

I Saw De-Sign

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2025/07/30

In this episode, meet two of the minds behind the design of the Aquarium’s many exhibits. Whether it’s prioritizing an animal’s wellbeing in its future home or ensuring a habitat has the best sightlines for guests, seeing an exhibit from an artistic concept to a walkable, explorable space is a lengthy one, if often as invisible as it is hugely important. Learn why the poison dart frog exhibit is our exhibit designer’s favorite habitat in the aquarium:

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00:53:20

Kelp Wanted: Working at an Aquarium/Zoo

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2025/07/23

Whether it's dreams of feeding sharks, corralling seahorses or culturing jellyfish, many visitors to aquariums wonder what it's like to work at a zoological institution or ... more particularly ... how to get a job there themselves. In this episode Casey is joined in the Studio Dive Cage by a pair of Aquarium coworkers, one relatively new and one with more than 25 years under her belt, and a special guest from the Chattanooga Zoo. Together, they tackle the highs and lows or what working with animals

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00:54:18

Don't Worry, We Have A Plan

The Podcast Aquatic ·

2025/07/09

A Species Survival Plan (SSP) is a behind-the-scenes tool employed by zoos and aquariums to manage and promote the health of the entire population of a species in human care. By tracking genetics and making strategic decisions about where to move individuals in the interest of forming healthy breeding pairs, SSPs make top-down decisions in the interest of an entire species’ well-being.At the same time, however, SSP decision can be a bittersweet pill to swallow for the devoted caretakers who form

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00:56:45

Lemurs and Otters and Penguins ... Oh My!

The Podcast Aquatic ·

2025/07/02

Just in time for the summer travel season, this episode is a listener special, featuring answers to our fans' most-burning questions about our penguins, lemurs and river otters!To check in live with our penguins and otters, check out the Aquarium's always-streaming web cams: River Otter FallsPenguins' RockEpisode CastCasey Phillips, show host and fellow otters/lemur/penguin stanSam Grote, senior animal care specialistTyler Schneider, senior animal care specialistHolly Gibson, senior

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00:50:25

Leopards Of The River And Other "Water Bugs"

The Podcast Aquatic ·

2025/06/25

They come in all shapes and sizes, but aquatic macroinvertebrates represent an important component of the food webs in streams. Whether its damselfly nymphs, crayfish or web-spinning caddisflies, these spineless organisms are a fascinating group of animals that are easy to overlook in favor of larger, more traditionally charismatic animals like fish, salamanders and aquatic mammals.In this episode, we plunge into the oft-overlooked world of "water bugs," from where they live and why they matter to

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