mstickmanp
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I just found this blog talking how the new aquarium at the Guadalajara Zoo will exhibit a Great white Shark. It's the entry for Sept. 8.
Designing Zoos
Designing Zoos
Zoológico Guadalajara Great White Shark!
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mstickmanp
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I didn't even notice that!
How little can you know about our oceans to display a mixed tank like that?
Comforting...
I hope they'll also add seahorses and nile crocodiles to that mixed exhibit. [but ok, other than species they mixed on the illustration it looks great]
forumbully
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I just surfed to the guadalajara zoo website and allthough my spanish is quite rusty, I didn't find anything on a WHITE shark (tiburon blanco), just that they plan to keep "various bony fish, moray eels, stingrays and the terror of the see: the shark (el tiburon).
so I guess it's badly translated. but in the translators defense. if you type shark in any language in google, most likely the first pics you'll find are those of a great white.
mstickmanp
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I just looked in the website and they do not specify the species of shark.
Adam Khor
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The sharks kept by the zoo are Sandbar sharks (Carcharhinus plumbeus), a bonnethead shark (Sphyrna tiburo) a Nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) and many reef blacktips (Carcharhinus melanopterus).
All of the sandbars are females, and I think the bonnethead is a male- recently it had to be removed from the main tank because one of the sandbars bit it.
The nurse shark was also recently removed from the main tank and taken to a separate open pool-like enclosure similar to that of the rays (as can be seen in my gallery). The rays can be touched by the visitors, and although there is a guard and a sign warning that the nurse shark can and will bite if someone reaches for it in the water, there's really no barrier preventing visitors from doing so.
As for the blacktips, they are kept in the walk-through aquarium along with many other tropical fish. These are a relatively new addition.
All of the sandbars are females, and I think the bonnethead is a male- recently it had to be removed from the main tank because one of the sandbars bit it.
The nurse shark was also recently removed from the main tank and taken to a separate open pool-like enclosure similar to that of the rays (as can be seen in my gallery). The rays can be touched by the visitors, and although there is a guard and a sign warning that the nurse shark can and will bite if someone reaches for it in the water, there's really no barrier preventing visitors from doing so.
As for the blacktips, they are kept in the walk-through aquarium along with many other tropical fish. These are a relatively new addition.