The Vancouver Aquarium, and two critically endangered axolotls, star in a news poem about the aquarium’s new permanent axolotl exhibit. The poem is recited by Sam, an Education Staff Member at the Vancouver Aquarium.
The Vancouver Aquarium’s new permanent exhibit features cute, and critically endangered, axolotls!
In waters not far from Mexico City,
An axolotl just smiles like a child.
This aquarium’s axolotls will not know how pretty,
Since none of them came from the wild.
These amphibians simply do not mature.
They grow back spinal cords, brains, and heart tissue.
A new permanent exhibit means you’ll see them for sure,
But they’re endangered – and that is the issue.
If you’re at the Vancouver Aquarium today,
You’re in luck, they will be there, as you learn and play.
INSPIRATION:
CBC
Vancouver Aquarium welcomes Amazing Axolotls
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7041748
CTV News
New axolotl exhibit opens at Vancouver Aquarium
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/new-axolotl-exhibit-opens-at-vancouver-aquarium
Global News
‘Exceptionally unique’ amphibian stars in Vancouver Aquarium exhibit
https://globalnews.ca/news/11607832/vancouver-aquarium-opens-axolotls-exhibit/
Vancouver Is Awesome
Vancouver Aquarium opening new ‘amazing’ axolotl exhibit
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