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...four side tanks (holding an additional 300,000 gal.) are home to 8,000 specimens of 250 species, arranged so that predators and prey seem to swim side by side. Visitors to the aquarium set off on a grand, circumnavigable tour around the world's oceans, past sharks, bluefish, wreckfish and more. Along the way they pass through naturalistic-looking coastal exhibits that represent four major littoral ecologies: rocky North Atlantic cliffs with cavorting razorbills and murres; subpolar grassy banks populated by nesting Magellanic penguins; Pacific-coast pools with a kelp forest, frolicking sea otters and flying oyster catchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age Of Aquariums | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

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