What About Whales?

February 17 - May 19, 1996

How Tall Are You?
Visitor's height is measured by overhead range and result is compared to length of a whale through audio speaker.

What Does A Whale Eat?
Water tank with simulated krill and visitor manipulated sleeve mechanism to catch krill. Videotape demonstration of whale feeding.

How Does A Whale See?
Visitor looks through optical tubes demonstrating how a whale sees. Reproduction of a Richard Ellis whale painting with visitor activated simulated x-ray view of a whaleís skeleton.

How Does A Whale Breathe?
Interactive device that shows a visitors ability to hold his breath, compared with a whale's. Interactive spirometer that demonstrates the lung capacity in liters of the visitor compared with that of a whale.

Find The Fluke Game
Interactive touchscreens demonstrate the uniqueness of whale fluke patterns.

Hot & Cold - A Whaleís Watery Environment
two sets of water tanks demonstrate the range of water temperatures in the whale's habitat.

Sound Like A Whale?
Audio and visual demonstration of sounds of whales. Viewer can try to imitate various whale songsand see the resulting sound patterns on computer screen.

Why Is A Whale Shaped The Way It Is?
Wind tunnel with rotatable whale cutout demonstrates how the whale's shape cuts down its water resistance.

Adaptation
Zoetrope demonstrates how the whale's nostril evolved into a blowhole.

Speed of a Whale
Zoetrope shows whale's speed compared with that of humans and various animals.

Ask a Scientist
Interactive touchscreens on history, ecology, behavior, physiology, conservation with authorities on marine mammals.

Whale Migration
Zeotrope illustrates evolution of whales.

How Does a Whale Float?
Water tank with objects of identical size but different densities illustrates how whales remain buoyant in water.

Puppet Show
Videodisc 3-D puppet show with animated historical and fictional characters. Inflatable Whale fluke. Full-size soft sculpture.

Whales in Hollywood
Twelve minute movie consisting of segments of motion pictures that have dealt with whales. Species mural by Richard Ellis depicting seventeen cetanceans. A hanging sculpture of a humpback whale.