Georgia Aquarium above and Sea World below. It was mentioned the other day the mind boggling advances that have been made in the zoo industry. Aquariums have kept right up with the zoo's in state of the art husbandry practices. Some like the Sea World Corp. have admirably combined education/entertainment. I sure hope they don't destroy the beautiful, historic, old Belle Isle building. Wouldn't it be great if it was turned into an "aquarium museum" with a history of Aquaculture, similar to Baraboo with the wonderful circus wagon building. Studying, understanding, and appreciating history helps us understand where we are today, with issues that must be faced.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Incredible advances in "Aquaculture" managing to combine education with entertainment.
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Wade G. Burck
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It would be great to have an aquarium museum. It's too late now but the old Small Mammal House House in Philadelphia would have been a great zoo museum. As America's first zoo and with a number of firsts and longevities, they would have had a lot to display. They remodelled the building as part of the current SMH. The next best possibility would be the Reptile House in Cincinnati (which also claims to be America's oldest by some criteria). Cincy did retain one of the old bird displays as a monument to the last passenger pigeon that died there in 1914. There's hope.
Jim,
Old buildings are such an important part of the history of animal keeping, marine and land mammal, zoo and aquarium, that they should be retained and used for that purpose, "if" they can't be rehabbed or utilized in a more modern humane effort at exhibiting/caring for animals. And their are some beautiful buildings modernized and still in used at St. Louis.
Wade
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