Why no aquarium has a great white shark
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2023
- Many have tried to keep a white shark in captivity. Here's why that's so difficult.
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It’s good to know they stopped for the safety of the animal well that and probably how much it cost 💲 to get them and maintain them
I thought so myself
You can completely delete the part “for the safety of the animal ", because most somewhat bigger saltwater fish do not live long in captivity, and also often show severe body deformations within weeks of captivity… But even thought they are deformed have pain, begin to root while still living, they are still on display and just pumped full of antibiotics...
No animals should be put in aquarium, they’re all locked away for our amusement forever. We call it cruel for locking people who have done nothing wrong in a cage yet we do it everyday for animals. They’re never see freedom and are locked in a 20ft cement room if they’re lucky.
No they lose money because they pay so much for the animal only for it to last a few months
@@micah2936doubtful they lost money. Keeping a great white in captivity brings lots of people in to the aquariums that wouldn't necessarily go in the first place so they make a bunch of money.
I was a volunteer for the Monterrey Bay aquarium and have a degree in marine biology. The reason they started keeping white sharks are for a research project. There's still a lot we don't know about great whites and sharks in general, but learning more helps us promote conversation efforts. During their stay, the health and will being was a main concern. Each shark was released as soon as he began to look stressed. Since the aquarium wasn't able to ensure the sharks could stay safely, once the project ran it's course, they have not attempted to capture it keep any more white sharks.
Also, the one that died shortly after release was killed, I can't recall if by a predator or humans, but was believed to likely be unrelated.
Why do y’all have to find out everything !?? Leave animals be !!! How would you like if someone prodded and poked at you?
@@sahardaves Like she said, knowing more helps conservation efforts. The more we know about their behavior, habitat, etc, the greater our ability to help these animals in the wild by preserving habitats, ensuring they have plenty of hunting grounds with food, and preserving habitats where they lay their eggs and where their young thrive best during their early stages of development. Just for a few examples.
Knowing more is always a strength.
@@sahardavesi had a really good message in response to rude opinion, but it didn't save so I'm going to be way briefer and hope you understand. The ocean is an ecosystem with everything playing a vital role. And there are ecosystems everywhere on earth. They are all interconnected. Sharks are an apex predator. Anything that drastically effects them will affect all the other parts in that ecosystem all the way down. This in turn will affect other ecosystems, which would have a potentially catastrophic effect on you and your family. Using that logic, it's important to understand their behaviors and what can cause problems in order to react appropriately if there are drastic changes in behaviors or numbers of great white sharks. Your question of why is not very complicated if you think about it. Ecosystems are incredible delicate and the balance needs to maintained. So yes, it is important to study them. Hope that helps.
@@sahardaves I fully appreciate your feelings on the matter. And if every human being on the planet felt the same sort of respect for every animal, then we probably wouldn't need to research as much. But that isn't the case. For generations, humans feared, hated, and didn't value animals as sentient beings. Studying then shed light on the fact that they are beautiful and important, and not mindless monsters. Sharing these discoveries have done a great deal to help change hearts and minds to improve conservation efforts. Far more effectively than simply pleading with people to understand. Thankfully, the more we learn, the more we try to improve husbandry (the care of animals in captivity) efforts. I'm the case of the white sharks, since it was determined that they couldn't be kept happy/healthy, the program was ended, because the people involved do care. But they learned a lot to benefit the species as a whole, and to work towards conversation for the entire ecosystem.
So keep advocating for animal welfare! But I also hope you can understand the overall benefits of research, and that those involved are always striving to do better.
@@mckaylapaddock9319- research can and does happen in the ocean. So what was learned by capture these precious lives ? They died for nothing … 😢😢😢
whalesharks are also extremely friendly and just the chillest dudes, they literally have other critters hanging onto them just to hitch a ride and dont care. man i love sharks
This sounds like a trap and I don’t believe you’re not a whale shark.
@@artsyidiot4754What are you, a krill?
shark supremacy
Shark typing this up hoping I’ll fall for it and be his next meal
remoras do this with other sharks too, great whites for example so the logic doesn’t make sense on just because fish hitch rides with whale sharks = chill and extremely friendly. they are chill and friendly but wrong reasoning
An aquarium in Sydney (iirc) kept a sick great white in an aquarium for about 6 days to allow it to recover. It was only a juvenile (less than 5 feet in length), but it changed the whole dynamic in the tank. Every other fish suddenly began following it around the tank. When someone asked why everything was following it around, they were told, "If you were in a tank with a great white, you'd want to know exactly where it was at all times. If it's in front of you, it can't sneak up behind you."
Lolol genuinely love the lil story at the end of your comment 😂
Better for it to be in your path, than to find yourself in it's.
This is very hilarious and educational at the same time. Thanks❤😂😂
Makes sense to me
They are an apex predator and they definately change alter the behavior of those around them. It's very cool to watch. Happens on a small scale too, introduce a larger animal into the ecosystem and all the others adjust around it.
When I went to the Monterey Bay aquarium, this worker lady there came up to me and my group and pointed to a tank we were walking by, and she told us this info about great whites. She said the way they were able to keep them alive was the shape of the tank, that was in a figure 8.
Did she tell you about the otters? One of them is one of the oldest ever
@@kangaroot_As a Dougdoug viewer, I stan Rosa.
@@IzameBirb finally someone gets what i mean
I went there as well
@@kangaroot_or the trans movement?
We don't need to put every animal in a cage to appreciate them.
We don't need to put any
I think zoos (and probably aquariums) have stopped being like animal prisons and are now more focused on preservation.
@@bobolobocus333nope absolutely not
@@yanikkendlerask zoo keepers from responsible zoos (which is most of them). Modern zoos are first and foremost rehabilitation and research centers. They are secondly entertainment areas, and even then, a lot of animals aren't on display. People just love to be holier than thou and know more than zoologists and decades long experienced researchers.
@@lastsong7159 I dont know where you get that from.
It is next to impossible to study imprisoned animals since their behavior is wildly different from actual wildlife. This results in missunderstandings like the alpha wolve . This issue is even worse with intelligent social creatures (especially those that travel huge distances) Orcas for example are known to get suicidal in captivity since they miss their family and suffer from boredom so they drown themselves.
There is centers that do actually research that have similar enclosures like the ape initiative but those are donation funded and do not allow random visitors. Zoos are a terrible enviroment for research or protection, actuall research sites like tamandua are based in huge protected areas andrelease their animals into the wild again.
I have not heard of any zoo that has the primary objective of helping animals(feel free to link it to me if there is one) and I think that would be a paradox.
To anyone reading this that wants to help consider donating to missionerde, wilderness-international, any of the ones above or similar organisations.
I love how great white sharks are a physical manifestation of a message to humanity: you can’t have everything your way no matter how hard you try.
You say that, but hunting them to extinction would probably be pretty easy if people got the go-ahead.
@@PhoenicopterusR no as in you can’t keep them in captivity but yeah extinction for sharks is gonna happen soon.
@@obolstudios5154 no I understood what you meant, it's just not entirely true. We get what we want, one way or another.
@@PhoenicopterusR yea true just not in our time probably in the future will have more room in tanks for great white sharks or something like that.
"I was a volunteer for the Monterrey Bay aquarium and have a degree in marine biology. The reason they started keeping white sharks are for a research project. There's still a lot we don't know about great whites and sharks in general, but learning more helps us promote conversation efforts." - @mckaylapaddock9319
That ending is a little deceptive. The last shark was killed in an incident unrelated to the stay at the aquarium.
Also probably a good idea to mention that all of this was for a project focused on learn about white sharks in order to further conservation.
Worth noting: while they sharks WERE on display they weren't being kept merely for display purposes. They were being actively studied.
Good to know, sometimes it's just more than what appears on the surface
@@joel3683Like a dorsal fin?
@@johnburke6332 haha!! I see what you did there good sir!! 😂😂😂
Still not ok. How can you accurately study them in an environment that is foreign to them?
@@PsychoKupcake That IS one of the reasons they stopped. Some animals can be held with little adverse affect, but great whites simply cannot. They learned all they could from those that were kept in captivity, including that they cannot be kept in captivity. All research on great whites is now carried out in the wild.
When you see that they're built to travel between continents, it starts to make sense why putting them in something comperable to a fishbowl would be catastrophic.
See; Orca.
That’s exactly how I feel about Sea World n different places having Orcas/Killer Whales in such small pools like they are. 😢😔😪
Finding out that they Monterey bay aquarium did it makes me so happy; I went there as a kid, and I still go when I can, and I know no matter what, their goal was to keep it for educational purposes, but also keep it happy & healthy, which is why they haven’t attempted it since.
Too little too late ....😓😓
Pelagic species like Great Whites travel enormous distances every year. Sharks GPS tagged off the East coast of Australia have repeatedly travelled out beyond New Zealand, before coming back, then going almost up to Japan & back.
They really just aren't adapted to one of those (relatively) tiny tanks.
On that scale, keeping them in a large tank is like telling a human swimmer to practice for the Olympics in a bathtub.
I kind of like that their vibe is freedom or death ❤ quite the creature
I'm the same honestly
Same as Ukranians. Freedom or death but unfortunately they will face death.
And Orcas are freedom or murder. Mammal vibes
Just like New Hampshire lol
Its not like its a choice, I'm sure it would choose life in a tank over death if it could.
Now only if they did the same to the orcas
They aren't breeding more orcas nor are they capturing more. The last few remaining, most of which were born in captivity and have never seen the ocean and its inhabitants (hence why they wouldn't survive in one) are all that will ever be in display
It's very profitable to keep torturing them.
monterey bay aquarium doesn't have orcas
@Teeftlis they are talking about more than Monterey Bay. Just orcas in general
@javen43 it's a fair thing for them to point out, but their wording was ambiguous
On my 10th birthday I went to that exact place and got to see one of their great whites on display, and absolutely gorgeous animal, I was so enamored to see one so up close, I was obsessed with sharks at the time so it's a great memory of mine
They're doing it wrong... They forgot to put some Nurse Sharks in there, in case the white shark got sick!
I think the people working there would have realized this considering most of the people researching probably have hard bachelors or masters degrees.
I saw one of the sharks at Monterey. It was amazing when it turned and swam towards you, it looked like a sentient murder bus gliding along. It wasnt until it turned that you realized how much closer it had gotten to you.
It was really small and the staff / signage said it was accidently caught and injured by a fishing trawler or something and was there to recover. It was gone a month later iirc.
Something to think about - unlike other animals, Great Whites won't be able to be saved from extinction via zoos/ aquariums, if it ever got to that point.
Zoos save nothing from extinction, genepool is too small; that's the last straw beside 'education' they hold and we should take that from them
Gene bank for them.
Preserved tissue, genomic sequencing, and eventual cloning if they ever vanish.
But seeing that sharks existed for that long, I'm not afraid for them.
They know how to surf evolution for millions of years.
@@arminxvs3372 But humans have the ability to completely negate evolution. In less than 100 years, we killed more than 90% of the whales on the planet. Evolution takes millions of years.
@@arminxvs3372 But they never encountered humans before, which actively hunted and killed them
Of course it's still likely that some species of shark will inevitably survive for many millions of years to come, but particular species like great whites may not be so lucky
They need to constantly be in motion and they have a high prey drive too so that’s another set of reasons
baby shark.. do do do do...baby shark!
Sharks are beautiful creatures sad to hear majority of the sharks if not all didn’t make it but on the bright side they stopped trying to do this anymore than they have
No it's not that's a glorious death it's unfortunate that most of these animals get imprisoned by these worthless parasites some people are just for destruction. I hate to see these animals trapped in their greedy hands
@@josephhamsuckerfish and shark parasites arent sentient stop taking drugs
You’re gonna love to hear that over 100 million a year are killed in fishing nets.
At least they stopped doing it. Some animals are simply meant to be free and nothing else.
Incorrect; no living Great White...
Sounds almost like it was inhumane to try in the first place when they already knew better.
who cares about some sharks health LOL
@@trader2137 people with empathy
It’s a fish, nothing human about it. They don’t understand or feel pain the way week as humans EMOTIONALLY do.
@@markelman198what does physical pain and suffering have to do with emotions
The ocean is filling up with plastic how long until the waters are uninhabitable
If we discover mermaids and put them in a giant aquarium, we will never hear the end of it.
I’ve actually been to the aquarium many times since I live in the area. I’ve seen the sharks but I’ve never noticed that it’s not in any other aquariums
I remember seeing that white shark in Monterey back in the early 2000's as a little kid. While it's super sad that they didn't do well in captivity-- I can say even as a child I learned a ton and genuinely appreciated seeing such an amazing animal up close.
The silver lining being It wasn't for nothing, I'm sure there was a generation of children like me who appreciated it equally so.
That being said, I'm glad everyone stopped trying to cage them.
@fudgyboo I've had a totally opposite conversation recently, in that seeing a video of something doesn't nearly do the subject matter justice. Doesn't matter if it's extreme weather events, disasters, large animals, national parks with beautiful vistas etc. It really just hits different when you're there experiencing the moment in person rather than sitting behind a screen, but one thing to always keep in mind is safety while out in nature. It's definitely not good to keep things in captivity, but seeing things in person is something you appreciate more when you actually see it and were there.
@@fudgybooMBARI (monterey bay area research institue) actually did a ton of work with the great whites. A lot of what we know today about their mating paterns and the ecology of the open ocean as a whole was because of the great whites brought into captivity. You can learn a lot about any ecosystem by studing its top predators, from chemical content and temperature shifts. Additionally the newer ones werent captured for display but because they had health issues and needed treatment or because they were posing safety risks and were captured as an alternative to just killing them.
As for what you could learn from them that way vs a book or video honestly a lot. Presentation matters. The level of connectivity and engagement the dosents at the aquarium created was astounding. Its not just about how much you can learn, but how invested you can get people to learn. I remember seeing adults swarm the aides asking questions about diet, migration patterns and even growth rates. Laat time i was there i literally spent 20 minutes talking to one of the demonstrators after a video just asking questions. Everyone ive met from MBARI has been a genuinely passionate person who cares about the oceans ecosystems and spreading awareness. And that made a huge impact.
While I agree that in a perfect world I'd much rather the sharks had been healthy enough to have remained free you cant discount the sheer amount of awareness that comes with the notority of having a great white on display. All in all I was able to see 3 of the whites they had and those memories still encourage me to visit every couple of years and help with local projects and donate to preservation efforts.
@@fudgybooits not that deep lil bro...
@fudgyboo I mean, it's not like there's thriving industries built from going to see things in person. The most ironic example BEING a zoo or an aquarium. Who wants to see animals in person when you could just stare at your phone? Why visit an Arboretum or a Botanical Garden when you could just look at a book, right? Why go anywhere or do ANYTHING when a computer screen is clearly just as good?
Agree with OP (as one of the generations of kids that got to see one of the sharks in Monterey). Seeing these guys in their own habitat is a better experience and hopefully there's some easily-accessible scuba diving training to help make it easier for people to see sharks (or, at least, ways to go on a ship to spot them).
I grew up in Salinas in the mid-2000s. I visited the Monterey Bay Aquarium many times during that period, so I almost certainly saw one of their captive Great Whites in their "Outer Bay" exhibit (now called "Open Ocean") -- although I cannot say I specifically remember it. Some creatures are just not meant to be kept in captivity and must be observed in the wild.
They’ve still occasionally got captive great white, but they’re always juveniles, from what I understand usually unhealthy ones caught initially for tagging, and they’re released after one season of stay.
I think that's pretty much every creature.
@@pakde8002 Not really. Many small, relatively sedentary animals are able to have much better quality of life in captivity than they would in the wild, and even many large animals can do well in captivity in the right circumstances. Even beyond that, many individual animals would have much better quality of life in captivity than they would in the wild: domesticated animals, birds that have imprinted on humans, and bears that have learned that garbage cans are high quality food sources are all not likely to survive well in the wild, and live better/longer lives in captivity.
@@jessehunter362small fish maybe even small sharks and small ram fish like the tanks a lot
@@timohara7717 Yeah, given that they’re big enough. All about the size and the requirements of the animals in question.
Lot of people here are furious that they kept sharks in aquarium to study them.
But the same people are ok killing animals to eat them.
Can you please explain this logic ?
Sharks are too Chad for their own good in an aquarium setting.
As a dougdoug fan, Monterey bay aquarium is cool.
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The Monterey bay aquarium is probably the most amazing aquarium I’ve ever been in I love going back there every time I’m in the area
It has rosa
@@ewanb1086 making it the superior aquarium by far, despite it's flaws
I loved the Jellyfish exhibit! Such fascinating elegance & beauty! It was such a beautiful aquarium. One of the best!
One of my rules is: If keeping it in captivity actively harms the animal, then we shouldn't even try.
They rage quit after being caught. Tbh I'd be the same 😂
I saw a great white at the Monterey aquarium back in the day I think it was the first ever in captivity they eventually took her out because she was snacking on some of the other fish in the aquarium.. yeah it was the first one in 2004 that was kept 198 days.
The first was in like the 60s bud..
@@AshleyNeekook it was the first one Monterey aquarium had and the one that was kept the longest
I remember seeing the great white sharks in Monterey Bay, sad to see that the last one they had died 4 days after it was released
Idea: Make a plane that can fly without using any vertical fins or quantum rudders and using logic to stabilize it. Like a stealth bomber.
And they were keeping a meg in captivity in Meg 2:The Trench
It would be just like the MBA to be only one to keep sharks for so long and then truly know better than to try again after what happened. They never dissapoint it seems, even when they fail.
Ok, but zoos are actually not awful. They raise awareness for endangered animals and educate people about them. Most of them actually live longer in captivity.
You can educate without putting them in captivity. Most learning is done without real life examples. It's purely for entertainment. And those animals are endangered because of human activity (climate change and hunting) so how about people focus on fixing that instead? We're destroying biodiversity mainly because of ridiculously selfish lifestyle choices and then argue that the way to put a tiny bandaid on it is to put a few animals behind bars?
@@Maria-EUanimals are safer in zoos. They have nobody there to hunt them and they can live a very long time in captivity.
@@f40carz93 Do you really think that living in a prison, makes you live a happier life? Every day for many many decades always the same walls, always the same small boring activitys? And always loud noises everywhere? Most animals show sevire mental problems because of it, and even begin hurting themselfs...
@@m_liesyea but theres no turning back its like vault life
@@m_lies many animals don't, they are not same as humans so as long as they are fed and protected they will be happy
MGM in Las Vegas has sharks
All I can remember of the juvenile great white at Monterey was that it was scared to death of the tuna. Especially during feeding time.
We all love Monterey bay aquarium because of rosa! WOOO!
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So, the Monterey Bay Aquarium sometimes has great whit embarks in their deep-sea exhibit. They use the massive aquarium to house it if they have been injured or need medical intervention. They also have a strict policy for how long they can house the shark. I think it's somewhere around 3-5 months max. (: they are also an amazing research facility so they take good care of their creatures.
They dont belong in some caged aquarium they belong in the sea
Sea World been real quiet since this video dropped
now this should be replaced with animated holograms, like some circuses have done. as much as i love aquariums and zoos, i can't see why we need to capture any more wild animals for display. except for maybe breeding/extinction prevention purposes
They shouldn’t capture them from the wild but I think most of the animals are bred into that environment in zoos
Most zoos are animal sanctuarys
Agreed. Once the holograms look real, they need to be the ONLY way to see IRL animals in captivity.
Edit: aside from animal sanctuaries where the animals are unable to be in the wild for whatever reason/.
For most species that are rather sedentary in the sense they don’t like moving much and are happy to live in their little reef Hoek most of their lives then I don’t see a problem with that… it’s win win… we get to preserver and observe a fish while it doesn’t have to worry about being gobbled up and has free meals everyday. For a fish like GW they have huge migration patterns and have literally been recorded swimming from South Africa to Austrelia… no not gonna fit
@@kimiko_ella3092unfortunately you want to release them to their natural habitat and that’s great but maybe the main focus should be to make sure said habitat is still there and healthy… can’t say that for most zoo animals so we really got our priority mixed… idk which would be sadder to have no other animals to share this planet with or the only « wild » animals our children will se are either in a zoo or museum for the most part
Conservation efforts are definitely more difficult; zoos and aquariums are often populated with specimens that cannot be released, are injured, or are used for breeding to preserve a species.
I can say I was one of the people to actually see the great whites in captivity. I remember seeing it as just a young kid as my parents used to take me and my sister to the Monterey bay aquarium fairly often.
I wish every animal and every human had this ability
I was lucky to see the baby great white at the Monterey Bay aquarium when I was in highschool. Glad they set it free😊
They also had issues with the great white eating other things in the tank too iirc. I did get to see at least one of the great whites while they were still there, they are magestic
I went to the Chattanooga Aquarium in Tennessee immediately after the Pandemic was lifting, they had one single Great White Shark in captivity. She was roughly 10 feet in length as I recall and it shocked Me being there of all places especially considering the issues of which these acquatic beasts have in surviving within a glass enclosure.
I always assumed it was from stress
I remember visiting the Monterey Aquarium as a kid and seeing one of the Great White sharks (though it was somewhat sad to see it since it was pretty much still a juvenile/teenager shark). I'm glad they discontinued capturing them, since there's still a lot of great wildlife in the large tank it had (and it also protects the other sting rays/fish in the tank too - the sharks used to occasionally eat the other fish).
They also has a large sea turtle too, though I can't remember if it's still there or not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"You can't find a great whit shark in any aquarium"
Me: All is as it should be, moving on
My local zoo had a Great White Shark exhibit when I was a pre-teen.
I'm glad I got to see so many in person, especially in a tunnel aquarium, but knowing this is so tragic...
Strange how such apex predators can be so sensitive like a high-maintenance flower.
Back in the 80’s a great was kept at the Steinhart Aquarium in SF for a few weeks and then returned to Monterey bay…….I saw it in the roundabout 360 tank.
Why don't make an aquarium the shape of a donut?
As much as I'd love to see a great white shark, I'm even happier that they're not in an aquarium
The shark's magnetic sensors are so incredibly sensitive that the shark will consistently brush against the tanks walls
I love the Monterey bay aquarium. It's where I grew up
As someone who's favorite animal is the great white, hearing that they stopped trying to keep great whites is fantastic. Such beautiful, powerful creatures that deserve wilderness
They don't really deserve wilderness, it's literally the only thing they can have.
i remember being a kid and seeing the great white shark at the monterey bay aquarium, i'm glad they no longer do that.
Imagine going to the aquarium and they're feeding live otters and seals to adult great whites.
*Animal Crossing New Horizons:*
Jurassic Park got some ideas...
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So you're saying all I have to do to defeat a great white is slow it down?
Heh. Watch out sharks.
You can’t incarcerate a 200million year old Apex predator species and expect it to thrive when it can no longer hunt for prey.
I instantly knew which one was able to keep one, I used to go there all the time! fun parts of having family there 😂
“You can’t lock nature in a box.”
Sure you can. I used to keep pet moths in a box with leaves and grass. They never lasted through the night tho.
I would consider earth as nature lock in a sphere.
Yea you can
Think of earth as the box. What we perceive as nature is kept here on earth. All that doesn’t apply in outer space, unless same circumstances we have here are replicated on another planet.
You can actually.
Wish the video included the fact that the Monterrey Bay Aquarium isnt just some entertainment aquarium but actually a research and education facility that does a lot of great work for conservation. Its a favorite field trip location for schools in the area for a reason, its fun and very educational.
You just gotta build a much much much much much much much much bigger aquarium. And then you have to sacrifice mammals to the shark gods.
Love Monterey Bay aquarium. Rosa is the best sea otter known to man and she’s housed there
To People who think the blue whale is the biggest fish in the sea it’s a mammal
I think aquariums need life size models of great whites so ppl can see how big and amazing they are. Personally I imagine them as animatronics where you can push buttons or pull levers to make the shark move like it’s swimming or to open its jaws for attack. It doesn’t go anywhere cuz it’s not in a tank, it’s just a stationary machine that looks like a shark.
That's good that they haven't displayed them again
Calling them "White Sharks" seems disrespectful.. put some respect on its name... The Great White Shark
"the Aquarium hasn't tried again since"
Me out loud: "thankfully."
I thought the Newport Aquarium used to have a Great White but I could be so wrong.
Watch me, i’ve got a glass jar and a Shrinkinator.
Two Oceans Aquarium in South Africa has a permanent Great White display so that makes them the only aquarium to have these sharks
They are ragged-tooth sharks, but they have info displays about the great whites :-)
Would it be cool if they build a shark tunnel under the ocean instead of bringing those to the aquarium?
I don't think there's a guarantee that only sharks would frequent it, if any
Lol
As much fun as it is to visit an aquarium, NO animal deserves to be put on display for our amusement. They belong in the ocean, not in a tank.
I actually got to see one there. Truly amazing creatures.
Imagine if we steal human and put them on display so that other people can see them.
Oh wait that actually have happened in the past.
Never mind…
Plot twist 😂.
It's called "human zoos" comrade
Let's not force non-human animals into captivity
Would you support putting human animals into captivity?
@@user-xz4du3es5p I think they phrased it that way because of the prison system.
@@TempoHackThat's pretty hilarious ngl
not even bugs or fish? u think they care?what abt places that host dangerous and or endangered animals who would’ve died or been killed. there are ethical reasons to keep animals in captivity
why not? its what people want to see... animals dont have feelings, just instincts, as long as they get food they are good
Where they went wrong was when the captain used the safety squint to locate Belem. It's not used for that.
i have seen sharks in fish tanks that did not grow due to their environment, but they did live.
sometimes you have to do it to know you shouldn't
in this case, they really shouldn't even have thought of trying
I've noticed that the bigger they are more we care and smaller they are less we care. ❤
At least they were being studied. It's almost as if the perfect ocean predator can't be caged.
Orcas would like a word
I think its because they dive deep to be able to sleep. They're dying from sleep deprivation
My childhood aquarium!
Real life loading screen tip: animals live longer and more than emotionally dead in the habitat they NATURALLY live in.
I don't know what the fricking problem is with just leaving animals alone.
There are actually many animals that live way longer in zoos etc. Whether they are happy or not is an entirely different question, but they do live way longer lives without predators , disease, injury etc.
Facts don't back that up in most cases
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Pandas have entered the chat, so have half of the other protected species in special breeding programs.
And not being funny
"If you cage the beast, the beast will get angry" Wolverine
You can't find any white sharks in aquariums anywhere in the world? GOOD!
Aquariums are the only public facility more depressing than a zoo.
Are zoos anachronistic?
Yeah, they should be limited to their conservation research
I think so. At this point. Much as I loved going, growing up …
@@stephenf3379 Conservation research that isn't actually going to do anything to stop poachers and multi-billion corps from destroying habitats and rendering species extinct. Having animals preserved in zoos and sanctuaries is a public service. If we had proper zoos and sanctuaries centuries ago, species like the dodo and maybe even Seward's Sea Cow would still be alive.
@@nickm8874You're right - now that you've had a childhood to experience them, we should pull up the ladder and take that experience away from future generations. Good call. Very brave.
In short; they aren’t meant to be confined.
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I’m honored that I got to see the first great white shark at Monterey Bay when it was a baby. Sounds like it was a good idea to not keep them in captivity anymore though.