The Kemp's ridley sea turtles had been cleaned and de-oiled at the Audubon Aquarium in New Orleans, and at Gulf World in Panama City, Florida.

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Charles streetcar, visit the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas or Audubon Zoo and take a brief interlude at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

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The Audubon Zoo is open on weekends, although the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, which lost most of its fish after the storm knocked out power, won't reopen until summer.

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