Comments on: Spotlight On… http://www.calacademy.org/academy/exhibits/naturalist_center/nnotebook/?p=2086 Educational programs, games and more Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:02:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: nature http://www.calacademy.org/academy/exhibits/naturalist_center/nnotebook/?p=2086&cpage=1#comment-368 nature Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:33:47 +0000 http://www.calacademy.org/academy/exhibits/naturalist_center/nnotebook/?p=2086#comment-368 And you are both right! It is Haliotis rufescens, more commonly known as Red Abalone.
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Photo: Gerald and Buff Corsi © California Academy of Sciences
We’re winding down our celebration of Sea Otter Awareness week, and abalone is one of the foods they consume.

We’ll have another guess the specimen up for you next week, but in the meantime won’t you tell us Who Pooped?

]]> By: Ilana http://www.calacademy.org/academy/exhibits/naturalist_center/nnotebook/?p=2086&cpage=1#comment-364 Ilana Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:21:20 +0000 http://www.calacademy.org/academy/exhibits/naturalist_center/nnotebook/?p=2086#comment-364 I agree, it’s abalone.

]]> By: Margot http://www.calacademy.org/academy/exhibits/naturalist_center/nnotebook/?p=2086&cpage=1#comment-363 Margot Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:58:55 +0000 http://www.calacademy.org/academy/exhibits/naturalist_center/nnotebook/?p=2086#comment-363 That is an abalone! Specifically a red abalone in the pic.

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