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Introduction Area
1. Catfish Planet Exhibit Entrance Signage
2. Wall Panels
  a. Exhibit Credits
  b. Catfishes
  c. What is a catfish?
  d. Let’s Climb My Family Tree
  e. We are Family
  f. The Webarian Apparatis
  g. As old as the rocks
    i. This panel includes a replica fossil of Hysidoris Farsonenis an extinct family of catfish found only in North America is included in the welcome section.
3. A/V
  a. 3D Virtual Catfish Anatomy
  b. Running Water Sound Effects
  c. Underwater Lighting Effects
4. Interactives
  a. Huge Blue Catfish Model
        i. 22’ Long, 11’ Tall
    ii. Allows visitors to walk inside a catfish.
    1. Reach through the gills
    2. Peer out the eyes
    3. Steer the whiskers
    4. See the heart beating
    5. Feel the swim bladder
    6. Look through the mouth

 

Defense
A combination of graphics and live animals show the wide
range of defense techniques and anatomy used by catfishes.
1. Wall Panels
  a. Painful Stings
  b. Deadly Venoms
  c. Armor

 

Feeding
A combination of graphics and live animals show the wide range of
feeding strategies used by catfishes.
1. Wall Panels
  a. Some Eat Plants
  b. Some are Filter Feeders
  c. Most are Predators

 

Reproduction
A combination of graphics and live animals show the wide range of
reproductive strategies used by catfishes.
1. Wall Panels
  a. Reproduction
  b. Parental Care
    i. Mouth Brooding
    ii. Bubble Nest Building
    iii. Egg Tending and Assisted Hatching
    iv. Egg Tending and Transport
    v. Nest Guarding
    vi. “Nursing Catfish
    vii. Cuckoo Nesting

 

Camouflage
A combination of graphics and live animals show the wide range of
camouflage used by catfishes.
1. Wall Panels
  a. Camouflage
  b. Hiding in Plain Sight
  c. Mimicry



Habitat Diversity
A combination of graphics and live animals and A/V show the wide
range of habitats used by catfishes.
1. Wall Panels
  a. You Can Find Catfish Anywhere
  b. Life in the Fast Lane
  c. Can Catfish Breath Air
2. A/V
  a. Walking Catfish
  b. Amazon Abyss

 

Senses
Catfish exhibit a wide spectrum of sensory capabilities ranging from nonexistent to highly developed. A combination of graphics and live animals show the wide range of feeding strategies used by catfishes.
1. Wall Panels
  a. Senses of Catfishes Are Windows to Their World
  b. I Can Smell You A Long Way
  c. I Can Taste You
  d. I Hear You Even When You are on Shore
  e. I Can See You
  f. I Can Even Feel Your Vibes

 

Catfish Sizes Wall
The Catfish Sizes wall includes scaled silhouettes of differing sizes of catfish.
1. Wall Panels
  a. How big did you say?
    i. Channel Catfish
    ii. Black Bullhead
    iii. Kokuni
    iv. Acanthicus Adonis
    v. Mekong Giant
    vi. Flathead
    vii. Widemouth Blind Catfish
    viii. Blue Catfish
    ix. Tadpole Madtom
    x. Goonch Bagarius
    xi. Wels Catfish
    xii. Piraiba

 

Catfishes and Humans
A combination of graphics and live animals artifacts, hands-on interactives show how Catfish
figure prominently in human history and culture.
1. Wall Panels
  a. Catfishes and Humans
  b. A Cure for Headaches
  c. Or Infertility
  d. Or Nerve Disorders
  e. Catfish as Food
  f. And as Pets
  g. Noodle A Catfish
2. Interactives
  a. Noodle A Catfish
3. A/V
  a. Catfish Noodling
  b. Catfish Farming
  c. Commercial Fishing
   


Conservation
This section discusses the multi-national all catfish species project. This project currently is supporting teams on all continents to find and describe all the living catfishes. This may raise the number of known species to almost five thousand. The exhibit panels discuss the problems facing individual species like the North American Madtoms, and the Asian giant catfish. The pet trade also has a negative effect on some species. Catfish Planet discusses broader issues like water pollution, deforestation, and dams and there effect on these fishes. The exhibit will also explore the effects of introduced species as it relates to catfish.


Live Animals in Catfish Planet

Defense

  • Glass Catfish
  • Coral Catfish
  • Electric Catfish
  • Pterodoras Granulosus
  • Stick Catfish
  • Shovelnose Catfish
  • Megaladoras Irwini

Reproduction

  • Columbian Catfish
  • Banjo Catfish
  • Robin’s Carydoras
  • Hoplo Catfish
  • Synodontis Multipunctatus
  • Black Spotted Plecostormus


Feeding

  • Royal Plecostomus
  • Ogre Catfish
  • Blue Shark Catfish
  • Bacon Catfish
  • Giant Upside Down Catfish

Catfish and Humans

  • Channel Catfish

Miscellaneous

  • Pangasius Larnaudi
  • Pangasius Hypopthalmus
  • Grass Cutter Catfish
  • Synodontis Angelicus
  • Synodontis Eupterus
  • Burmese Sun Catfish
  • Synodontis Brichardi
  • Red Tailed Catfish
  • Gold Nugget Plecostomus
  • Bushy Nosed Plecostomus
  • Whiptailed Catfish
  • Giant Otocinclus

 

 

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