Great White Shark in captivity

[Anonymous]

Man, I wonder if there's a way I can take a vacation to monterey and write it off on taxes or something. :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

Nice pics GD, or should that be GD nice pics.

Wouldn't it be funny if the aquarium staff came in one morning and the tuna was missing half its body and she was whistling and kicking her heels on the bottom trying to look innocent. BURP

 

[Mouse]

Well, ive just completed my application as chief baby seal clubber for the white shark exibit, wish me luck :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

Wish I had the cast to take a trip out there.

 

[Anonymous]

Yowsah! Saw it today with some friends, got some pretty good pics. It's an amazing looking fish, and it looks a hell of a lot bigger than 4 feet. I certainly wouldn't want to get in the water with it. It did look like it had some damage to its tail and nose though. Definitely worth the drive/flight if you're anywhere nearby.

I'll post the pics as soon as my friend emails them to me, along with some pics of their other shark and reef tanks, but here's a pro photo...

It was really annoying that yahoos kept using their flash, even though the aquarium staff was repeating every minute or so not to.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm going to try and make the hour and a half drive down there this weekend.

Jim

 

[Anonymous]

Saw her. Very cool.

They are actually more worried about the tuna hurting her, than her hurting the tuna!

 

[John_Brandt]

It did look like it had some damage to its tail and nose though.

Damsels :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

I'm going to try and make the hour and a half drive down there this weekend.

Jim

.... Damn you! Its 2 and 1/2 for me... :x

 

[Anonymous]

It did look like it had some damage to its tail and nose though.

Damsels :lol:

They had a zebra/whitetip/blacktip shark tank with damsels in it! Righty, did you notice the hammerhead tank? There were small reef fish in the back that looked like they were in the same tank. It was actually a separate tank, like a ring outside the main tank. Very hard to see unless you looked at the gravel closely.

 

[Anonymous]

Didn't see that. Spent a good deal of time under the anchovies with my daughter, laughing her ass off, on my shoulders!


There and at the big tank looking at Molas and the white girl.

 

[Anonymous]

Saw her. Very cool.

They are actually more worried about the tuna hurting her, than her hurting the tuna!

Let the record show that tuna bites can be quite nasty.

They had molas? How about a pic?

 

[Anonymous]

They had two little molas in the big tank, this isn't one of them:

Its one I saw recently whale watching. Bout 6 feet. Real hard to take decent pics at the outer bay tank.

Oh yeah, there was a news crew there making me angry. Interviewing people and asking 'Did you see the GREAT white shark? Were you scared?' Nothing like letting the media perpetuate stereo types that make people kill animals!

Oh, Oh, I was also told that they wanted to kill the big bluefins because they couldn't catch them and are scared they will kill the white but the AZA won't let them. Go AZA! The blue fins are like 600 pounds and phenomenal to watch. They can move.

 

[Anonymous]

Those tuna are amazing. I still can't get over how big they are, especially that HUGE one that does laps down below the others.
I would hope that not only do they not kill the tuna, but they leave them in the tank. .

Jim

 

[Anonymous]

And those tuna aren't really large! Fishermen used to catch 1500 pounders with regularity - they are called the Lions of the Sea.
They won't kill them. I have some problems with the AZA regarding trafficking outside of its affiliates, but they do a good job of protecting animals.

 

[Anonymous]

I would have thought, honestly that biologists would have enough sense not to put a baby predator in with adult prey in a tight enclosure like that, ie. what would happen to a lion cub in with adult buffalo or zebra? They might attack and kill it, duh.

 

[Anonymous]

Those tuna don't have anything to fear from that little shark, believe me...

 

[Anonymous]

They are worried about the tuna killing the shark, not the shark killing the tuna.

 

[Anonymous]

And those tuna aren't really large! Fishermen used to catch 1500 pounders with regularity

8O I can't imagine that fish. That big one in the outer bay tank must be what, 700lbs?

 

[Anonymous]

You misunderstood me. The baby shark is the one in obvious danger from such a formidible predator like the tuna, but not only that the tuna might recognize the GW as a predator and attack it just for that, similar to what adult prey will do to lion cubs.