点评:Before we left Napier we spent about an hour at the New Zealand National Aquarium which opens at 9 am. It is fairly compact aquarium so we easily completed it within about an hour. They recommend starting at the top and walking down from there and that worked for us. There are both stairs and lifts.
There is an oceanarium and oceanarium tunnel to see stingrays and fish feeding. There are three reef exhibits with puffer fish, turtles and crayfish. The "our oceans exhibit" is a display of the various oceans not just those around NZ and also a flooded forest exhibit with pacu fish and an ancient life exhibit about dinosaurs. We saw terrapin in the warmer waters section which includes tropical fish and had a chance to see tuatara (we had missed out seeing them in other places that had them) and kiwis in their habitat.
We caught the little penguin feeding show at 9:30am - they are so cute - and the commentary was engaging. These are rescued penguins that would not survive in the wild and the staff have had a chance to really know their personalities. You can see them swimming in their tanks beforehand and afterwards.
翻译:离开内皮尔之前,我们在新西兰国家水族馆待了一个小时左右,水族馆早上9点开门。水族馆面积不大,所以我们一个小时就轻松逛完了。他们建议从顶层开始往下走,我们也觉得这样很方便。水族馆里既有楼梯也有电梯。
水族馆里有一个海洋馆和一个海洋馆隧道,可以看到鳐鱼和喂鱼表演。还有三个珊瑚礁展区,里面有河豚、海龟和小龙虾。“我们的海洋”展区展示了新西兰周边海域的各种海洋,此外还有一个模拟淹没森林的展区,里面有食人鲳鱼,还有一个关于恐龙的远古生物展区。我们在温暖水域展区看到了龟,那里也有一些热带鱼。我们还有机会看到了楔齿蜥(之前在其他地方看到过,但都没看到),以及生活在自然栖息地的奇异鸟。
我们早上9点半看了小企鹅喂食表演——它们真是太可爱了——而且讲解也很有意思。这些企鹅都是获救的,它们无法在野外生存,工作人员有机会真正了解它们的个性。您可以观看它们在水池里游泳的场景,前后对比都很有趣。