Word: aquarium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group of live bands who had attracted devout neo-hippie followings in their respective regions but hadn't established much popularity away from home. According to Popper, it began as "a group of friends doing something together for fun." The original bill was Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit and Widespread Panic (both from Georgia), the Spin Doctors and Blues Traveler (both from New York City) and Phish (from Burlington, Vermont). Last weekend's bill was noticeably more corporate, though certainly not as corporate as the "Pepsi Generation...
Many marine biologists, though, think these complaints are exaggerated. Says Sadove: "There's no way you can produce an ideal environment for a 30-ft. killer whale, but you can provide an adequate one." And, observes Louis Garibaldi, director of the Aquarium for Wildlife Conservation in New York City, marine mammals don't necessarily prefer open spaces. "Our belugas often choose the smallest tank available," he says...
...unnatural tricks. Says David Simser, a biologist with the Massachusetts-based International Wildlife Coalition: "We foster the ideology that these creatures should be performing for us. What kind of education is that? It's a gross injustice." Not so, says Kevin Walsh, director of training at New York's aquarium: "You can see them jumping and doing flips in the ocean. The flips just aren't as clean." Some "tricks" have dual purposes, as when beluga whales learn to put their tail in the air both for performances and for giving veterinarians access to do medical tests. Moreover, the narration...
...Commercial fisheries deplete the whales' feeding grounds and disrupt their breeding areas and nurseries. Scientists suspect that PCBs, pesticides and other toxic chemicals leak into rivers and out to sea, weaken whales' immune systems and drive down their birthrates. Observes Scott Kraus, a marine biologist with the New England Aquarium: "The public gets hung up on whaling, but what's really worse is what we flush down the toilet...
Variations: Skip the boat ride and just hung out in the Aquarium and look at the fish in the big tank. It's air-conditioned...