With Halloween just a few days away, we’re pretty much at peak spooky season. At the Aquarium, that’s code for ODDtober, our celebration of nature’s weird and wonderful side.

At the time this releases, the odds are you’re either actively workshopping costume ideas or are already hard at work getting one ready for yourself or your homegrown knee-high trick or treaters.

However skilled you think yourself to be, though, your efforts have got nothing on some of nature’s most cunning masters of masquerade and mischief. In this episode, a trio of aquarium experts explain how these legends of the animal and plant kingdoms put our own tricking and treating to shame.

Episode cast

• Casey Phillips, host/senior communications specialist/often-tricked, sometimes-treated
• Austin Prater, senior horticulturist
• Rose Segbers, senior entomologist
• Sharyl Crossley, lead aquarist (Ocean Journey building)