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Cross Porpoises. In Marineland, Fla., aquarium officials were distressed to learn that two porpoises they had shipped to Bimini, B.W.I, had become seasick en route...
Drawn almost exclusively from the daily habituees of the Blockhouse aquarium, the starting roster, Brooks expects, will be swelled by last minute registration of swimming class members for the closed races...
Hmmm. In San Francisco, Dr. Robert C. Miller, director of the Steinhart Aquarium, excitedly opened a shipment of Hawaiian fish, was considerably let down to find a bunch of humuhumuhiukole; he had ordered humuhumunukunukuapuaa...
...Hubbs collected his first "Mollies" in 1930, and was puzzled because he did not find a single male. He brought the females back to his aquarium in Michigan, watched them narrowly, discovered that they were Amazons.* Among the Molliensia formosa, there are no males at all. Their offspring (conceived internally) are all female. When Molly requires a male, she borrows him from a related species...
...Hubbs raised 20 generations of Mollies in his aquarium, transferring the stock to La Jolla by airplane in thermos bottles. Never did he find a male, and none of the females produced by heterogeneous mating with alien fish showed any traits inherited from their fathers. Even when he mated a Molly with a male Gambusia (by artificial insemination), her offspring were female. Dr. Hubbs even tried to create artificial male Mollies-with no luck. By putting male hormones in their water, he made some Mollies brighter colored. But they remained Amazon, and did not attempt to be fathers...