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Why no aquarium has a great white shark



Many have tried to keep a white shark in captivity. Here's why that's so difficult. There are several aquariums around the world, including one in Georgia, that house whale sharks, the biggest fish in the sea. But not one has a great white shark on display. Aquariums have made dozens of attempts since the 1970s to display a captive great white shark. Most of those attempts ended with dead sharks. By the 2000s, the only group still trying was the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which spent a decade planning its white shark program. In 2004, it acquired a shark that became the first great white to survive in captivity for more than 16 days. In fact, it was on display for more than six months before it was released back into the ocean. In the following years, the Monterey Bay Aquarium hosted five more juvenile white sharks for temporary stays before ending the program in 2011. It was an expensive effort and had come under criticism due to injuries that some of the sharks developed in the tank. Responding to those critics, Jon Hoech, the aquarium's director of husbandry operations, said: "We believe strongly that putting people face to face with live animals like this is very significant in inspiring ocean conservation and connecting people to the ocean environment. We feel like white sharks face a significant threats out in the wild and our ability to bring awareness to that is significant in terms of encouraging people to become ocean stewards." Check out the video above to learn why white sharks are so difficult to keep in captivity and how the Monterey Bay Aquarium designed a program that could keep them alive. Link to the Biodiversity Heritage Library: https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/albums Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o

Comments

  1. NO CREATURE BE IT SHARK, MONKEY, LION, ZEBRA OR BEAR SHOULD BE KEPT INSIDE A ZOO OR ANY KIND OF THEME-PARK RESORT FOR HUMANS TO GAWP AT AND SCREAM AT. IT'S ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIC AND IT'S ANIMAL ABUSE. ALL ANIMALS SHOULD BE FREE IN THEIR NATURAL HABITAT.
    END OF.
  2. so they don't sleep?
  3. Why are people still trying to capture and display great whites if it's clear it kills the shark? Just leave them alone. They're not alive for our entertainment. People can go on those shark encounter trips if they want to see great whites.
  4. i feel soooo bad ๐Ÿ˜ฏ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ง๐Ÿ˜ฃ๐Ÿ˜ฆ๐Ÿ˜”๐Ÿ˜–
  5. Why does the sand tiger and great white look so similar?:0
  6. In shark week they would show that great whites spend a lot of time in the deep where the pressure is dangerous to us humans. That might be one of the reasons why they die in aquariums
  7. So it appears that great white sharks can't be in captivity. What a shame.
  8. People are messed up.
  9. The Great white shark isn't in aquariums because he is a B**
  10. this was cool...then at end i see her and like...wtf smart and gorgeous, some guy lucky af!
  11. they need others to stay alive or they will die of lonelyness look it up
  12. people are sick including the morons who pay to go watch animals suffer.
  13. Why would you capture a great white shark
  14. Why can't humans let animals live their life? Go and watch Images of Sharks of you want to but don't force them to live somewhere they clearly don't belong to
  15. I don't get why they even bother with this.
    It's too much money, too much effort, too dangerous, and just plain too cruel to these animals. Predatory animals like this don't deserve to be put in tanks or cages for display. They're unable able to adapt to it, so why bother?
  16. vox is cancer
  17. Evolutionism is the dumbest and most dangerous religion in the history of planet earth. They actually believe they came from a rock and believe in spontaneous generation! Now thatโ€™s stupidโ€ฆ How could anyone believe that a rock could change to a croc over millions of years? The religion of Evolutionism teaches that a T-Rex evolved into a turkey, that a cow evolved into a whale, that birds and banana's are related and that King Kong was their grandaddy. Lol.!! I can't believe people actually believe that nonsense!.
  18. I would also give up on life if i get caged for life. and starve myself to death
  19. Because there scary!
  20. Do they not know that they didn't acclimate it while going back into the ocean? No wonder it died...


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