A LOOK AT SOME QUEER FISH

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 254, 6 January 1941, Page 7

A LOOK AT SOME QUEER FISH

The tropical lish at Mari nel and, Florida's magnificent aquarium and underwater photographic studio, must be the most pampered fish in the world. A complete air-condition-ing and automatic heating system has just been ecmpleted to make them feel at home. One ol" our travelling correspondents writes lo tell us of this unique oceanarium, where all kinds of marine creatures live together, not separated by species as is usually the case. Best of all our correspondent liked the playful porpoises, which were taking great delight in teasing the turtles: they Avould root these clumsy creatures out from behind locks and push them all round the aquarium! The visitor noticed that when thc\ porpoises rolled to the surface they breathed air through a blow hole on the top of their heads. Held in awe by all is the latest boarder, the biggest Giant Manta Ray ever to be displayed alive,, a monster with a wing-spread of 13 feet and weighing over half a ton. As it flaps its way across the cc<[rtf] the small reef fish scurry for shelter From one of the porpoises which look on to this marine world our correspondent saw a .100-pound jew(ish swallowing ;> three-foot ground shark whole: mil her worst moment was when she came face to face with a mammnlh tiger shark!

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