The shuttle buses drop passengers off in an underground parking garage. I'm sure the Mall of America has many entrances, but the one you get to from the shuttles takes you right to the aquarium.
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A quick escalator ride down takes you to the entrance, and then into the exhibits.
Many of the exhibits are standard but well done.
Others had some fun surprises. They did a good job of showing off the creepiness of the crustaceans and the eerie beauty of the jellyfish.
I am a sucker for seahorses, and the Hippocampus genus was well-represented.
There were also larger tanks with larger creatures.
There ended up being two things that especially impressed me. One was the focus on rescue work. In addition to statistics and information on display in various locations, there were signs explaining how some of the current residents came to the aquarium, and it was usually something humans did. These reminders are important.
In addition, at one point I noticed a tortoise who had gotten flipped and was having a hard time righting himself. We reached the gift shop shortly after that, and I asked the attendant about it.
I was really just hoping for an assurance that they check them periodically, which I have gotten at a zoo in a different situation, but he went and notified someone right away. And this was a person in the gift shop, not someone who kept the animals. He was helpful in our browsing as well, but I appreciated the level of commitment to the animals, and the communications in place.
This is very frustrating for a tortoise.
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