Fish in
the
News.
Each
week the
Bailey
Brothers
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the Pet
Fish
Talk
Show
with
some fun
and
interesting
stories
about
fish in
the
news.
Great White Shark in the Monterey Bay Aquarium swims past the silhouette of a visitor to the aquarium. Photo by Kat Wade.
Mike Brittsan, curator at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, sent Bubba the lobster to Maine, after Myranda Hutchinson, 7, won it and wanted to set it free.
Maggie,
an 11-year-old California Sea Lion, paints for dead fish with the help of Kesha Phares.
Follow
up:
Monterey
Bay's
New
Great
White
Shark.
Keeping
a great
white
shark in
captivity
has been
... so
difficult
that
just 10
public
aquariums
in the
world
have
attempted
it. The
Monterey
Bay
Aquarium
is the
only one
to
succeed.
The
white
shark
introduced
to the
Outer
Bay
exhibit
on Sept.
1 has
drawn
the
largest
one-day
crowd in
the
aquarium's
history
and
could
become
as big a
blockbuster
as its
predecessor,
which
helped
attract
1
million
visitors
during
the 198
days it
was in
captivity.
Click
here
to read
more.
Cincinnati
Girl’s
Wish of
Setting
Prized
Lobster
Free.
All
Myranda
Hutchinson
wanted
to do
was to
free
Bubba.
Thanks
to a bit
of
chance,
someone
at the
Columbus
Zoo and
Aquarium
"knowing
a guy,"
and
Myranda’s
parents
paying
$280 for
a plane
ride,
Bubba
scuttled
away
into the
Atlantic
Ocean
yesterday.
The
7-year-old’s
quest to
free
Bubba
the
lobster
ended in
Bar
Harbor,
Maine,
though
she was
in
school
in
Cincinnati
at the
time —
1,100
miles
away.
Myranda
won the
lobster
at
Bigg’s
Eastgate
grocery
store in
Cincinnati.
The
store
was
giving
the
nearly
8-pound
lobster
away as
part of
the
store’s
anniversary
bash.
Click
here
to read
this
story.
Maggie:
Sea Lion
and
Artist
Paints
for
Fish.
Some
artists
suffer
for
their
work.
Maggie,
an
11-year-old
sea lion
at the
Pittsburgh
Zoo &
PPG
Aquarium,
gets to
eat dead
fish for
hers.
Kesha
Phares,
a zoo
trainer,
has been
teaching
the
animal
to paint
since
last
year.
Click
here
to read
this
story.
Tiny
Fish is
Key to
Evolution
of Human
Immune
System.
Armed at
first
with
nothing
more
than
boots, a
screen
and a
bucket,
scientists
studying
a tiny
primitive
fish
that
makes up
70
percent
of the
biomass
in Tampa
Bay now
say they
have
found
the
“missing
link”
marking
the
point in
evolution
that led
to the
development
of the
modern-day
human
immune
system.
Click
here
to read
more.
Our
thanks
to
Spenser
for this
story.
Tiny
Fish
Learn to
Sniff
Out
Predators.
When
threatened,
minnows
bunch
together,
swim
slower
and make
quick
darting
movements
to fake
out
their
predators.
How
close
they
group
together
and how
often
they
dart
depends
on the
level of
the
threat.
Is it
just one
pike
fish or
many?
Are they
far away
or
dangerously
near?
But
sometimes
vision
isn't
enough
to tell
the
minnows
these
things,
so the
small
fish
rely on
another
tactic:
They
sniff
the
water
for
scents
of their
predators.
A new
study,
detailed
in the
October
issue of
the
journal
Animal
Behavior,
reveals
that a
minnow's
sense of
smell is
so
sophisticated
that it
can pick
out the
odor of
a single
predator
pike
fish
among
many.
Click
here
read
more.
Thanks
again to
Spenser
for this
story.
40 New
Species
Found in
the
Amazon.
An international team of scientists risked their lives to discover 40 new species of plants and animals in a recent exploration of the Amapa region of Brazil. The Times of London said despite a few of its members nearly being eaten by hungry animals, the scientific team ultimately exited the nearly unspoiled South American area with thousands of specimens representing dozens of new and intriguing species. Among those species discovered were a bird and a tree rat, which the scientists were elated to find as new avian and mammal species are rare discoveries. Dr. Enrico Bernard, who led the ... group in Brazil, said the exploration gave his group a chance to see an area of the world that has been a virtual no-man's land. Click here to read this story. Yes, it was from Spenser, who gets our thanks for lots of fishy news.
Pollution
Affects
Ratio of
Males to
Females
in Fish.
61
percent
of zebra
fish
spawned
into
males
under
regular
oxygen
conditions,
under
hypoxic
conditions,
the
number
of males
increased
to 75
percent,"
said
Rudolf
Wu,
chair of
biology
at the
university.
This is
the
first
study
ever to
suggest
that
hypoxia
can
affect
sex
development,
differentiation
and
ratio in
any
animal
species.
It was
published
in the
May
issue of
the
journal
Environmental
Science
&
Technology.
Click
here
to read
the rest
of this
story,
which
was sent
to us by
Spenser
!!
Teddy
Bear
Slaughters
2,500
Trout.
A teddy
bear
dropped
into a
pool in
a New
Hampshire
fish
farm
managed
to kill
2,500
trout,
The
Mercury
News
reports.
The
killer
cuddly
toy,
"dressed
in a
yellow
raincoat
and
hat",
blocked
a drain
at the
Fish and
Game
Department's
hatchery
in
Milford
and
suffocated
the
pond's
piscine
residents.
Click
here
to read
this
story,
which as
usual is
from
Spenser!
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