Word: marineland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Peggy (dining at right) is the first porpoise to be born alive in captivity. Her 350-lb. mother, Pudgy, gave birth last week in a tank at the Marineland, Fla. Marine Studios. In less than half a minute Pudgy had pushed her calf, an air-breathing mammal, up to the surface to draw her first breath. In an hour and a half Peggy, with all a mammal's proper instincts, was having her first meal...
Saint Augustine, Fla. is proud of being the oldest city in the U. S. It is also proud of having in its ancient vicinity one of Florida's newest and most successful tourist-getters: the big Marineland aquarium recently built 18 miles to the south of it. It is fond of broadcasting superlatives about Marineland's two tanks (of steel, concrete, tile, brick and cement), the biggest and deepest aquarium tanks in the world, the only aquarium cleaned by divers with vacuum cleaners, the only one where some animals are fed under water by hand, the only...
Most popular sight at popular Marineland are the porpoises. For months one of the porpoises has been a particular cynosure, for it was known to be in an interesting condition. Last week Marineland saw a unique sight: the only birth of a porpoise accomplished from beginning to end under the scrutiny of science...
...trailers, by airline and boat and railway (at lowest fares ever), they spread through all the long reach from Jacksonville on the north to Key West in the south (see map). They went to fish for sail, marlin, tarpon on both coasts; to peer at fish on display at Marineland and Silver Springs; to watch their favorite ballplayers at Orlando, Clearwater, Sarasota; to hear the Bok Carillon at Lake Wales; to see Seminoles and alligators and flamingos and orange trees; to have...
Eighteen miles south of St. Augustine, Fla. is a brand new town, Marineland, where last week Marine Studios, Inc. opened a mammoth, $500,000 aquarium. Surrounded by palmetto trees and tropical shrubbery, the aquarium, world's largest, consists of two adjacent, open-air, steel and concrete tanks. The larger one is rectangular-100 by 40 ft. and 18 ft. deep; the other, an 11-ft.-deep, circular tank, is 75 ft. in diameter. Along the walls of both tanks are some 200 portholes...