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...second conservation meter has popped up at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, and zoos and aquariums in more than 20 other cities, including Seattle and Philadelphia, have requested the machines, which were developed with financial backing from the Virginia-based Nature Conservancy. If each of the 1 million annual visitors to the San Francisco Zoo gave 25 cents, the $250,000 could purchase more than 800 hectares of rain forest. Nationwide, more than 120 million annual zoo visitors could save 100,000 hectares a year. Impressive though that sounds, it will take many more quarters to reverse the fate...
...story of the turtles' birth certainly strays from the superhero script. They started out as aquarium pets, but mutated after falling into a pool of radioactive glop in a New York sewer. They were raised by a rat, Splinter, who taught them Ninja skills to fight crime...
...Fair A day at the New England Aquarium...
FISH EYES by Lois Ehlert (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $13.95). Children first learn arithmetic with their fingers. Then they look around for some new things to number. How about fish? Here, paper collages create a vast aquarium of imaginary underwater swimmers: one green, two jumping, three smiling, etc. The flipping, flashy, finny, skinny specimens help the volume live up to its subtitle, "A Book You Can Count...
...opponent of all captivity for the endearing mammals: "We capture them, we use them, we abuse them, then we dump them." Although dolphin expert Joseph Geraci of the University of Guelph in Ontario reported finding no signs that the San Diego center mistreats the creatures, the aquarium, which has made similar transfers before, put the plan on hold. Said executive director John Prescott: "We want to satisfy any anxiety raised by this decision...