Animal Attraction explores some of the wildest courtship and mating strategies in the animal kingdom. From mate-munching bugs to leaping fish, learn how animals go to extremes to pass on their genes.

New Aquarium Gallery

After exploring the 25,000-gallon Philippine coral reef, continue to the back of the Aquarium where a pair of colorful filefish welcome you to the gallery. Enter and discover the surprising secrets of meeting, mating and repopulating. The colorful and diverse beauty of the natural world would not exist without the mixing and passing of genes.

Live Animals

Encounter hermaphroditic banana slugs, cannibalistic praying mantises, monogamous shrimp, and more than a dozen other live creatures specifically chosen by our biologists to tell the unique, and often bizarre, mating stories.