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In preparation for the opening of a New Exhibit on Australian Wildlife at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, I took a behind the scenes tour through a low slung, Ghetto warehouse, in Fells Point, Baltimore. What appears to be some run down drug shack from the outside transitions into a World Class dressing room for Animals from all points of Australia on the inside. We take a grand tour of the dressing room, visiting rare birds, lizards and the tasty looking Baramundi fish to the Worlds third most poisonous snake the "Death Adder".
Join me, as I take you inside the cacophony of the Bird room to hear some of the delights of Australian wildlife taking a perch-hold on foreign Soil in the USA.
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In preparation for the opening of a New Exhibit on Australian Wildlife at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, I took a behind the scenes tour through a low slung, Ghetto warehouse, in Fells Point, Baltimore. What appears to be some run down drug shack from the outside transitions into a World Class dressing room for Animals from all points of Australia on the inside. We take a grand tour of the dressing room, visiting rare birds, lizards and the tasty looking Baramundi fish to the Worlds third most poisonous snake the "Death Adder". Join me, as I take you inside the cacophony of the Bird room to hear some of the delights of Australian wildlife taking a perch-hold on foreign Soil in the USA.
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Not very far, just a stone's throw in fact, from where Francis Scott Key penned a poem made, now famous, by an old English beer drinking song, Australia has taken a fledgling foothold on a foreign territory
That?s right, a foot hold, well in this case a Perch hold.
A non-descript, low slung warehouse, only a hundred yards or so from the Harbor, is the dressing room, provided by The National Aquarium, in Baltimore, for over 1800 Australian Animals as they await their Gala Day Opening of the Animal Planet Australia: Wild Extremes, exhibit, on December 16th.
The un-reputed Stars of the show will be the Aviators in all the Cacophonic glory yet, not to be outdone, several cameo positions are also vying for the lime light, in this case various Lizards, Snakes, Turtles and some decent size, tasty looking, Barramundi, who all have their appropriate Claw, Fin or whatever a Snake has, hol...
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