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The longest a great white was held in captivity was at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, in September 2004. A young female was kept in an outdoor tank for 198 days before releasing her back into the wild. In the following years, the Monterey Bay Aquarium hosted five more juvenile white sharks for temporary stays before ending its program in 2011. [3]
In 1984, Monterey Bay Aquarium's first attempt to display a great white shark lasted 11 days, ending when the shark died because it did not eat. [52] Through a later program named Project White Shark, six white sharks were exhibited between 2004 and 2011 in the Open Sea community exhibit, [ ah ] which was constructed in the 1990s.
Great white shark in the Monterey Bay Aquarium in September 2006. Prior to August 1981, no great white shark in captivity lived longer than 11 days. In August 1981, a great white survived for 16 days at SeaWorld San Diego before being released. [183] The idea of containing a live great white at SeaWorld Orlando was used in the 1983 film Jaws 3-D.
Sharktivity app, other tools aid cameras in tracking great whites. The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy and New England Aquarium teamed up a few years ago to develop the Sharktivity app, which ...
The Monterey Bay Aquarium tracked the migrations of 79 juvenile sharks and found great whites have not only adapted to the perils of climate change but thrived in them.
A Bay Area photographer captures juvenile white sharks "smiling" in the warm waters of Monterey Bay. Photos: Is that shark smiling? Here's why young great whites grin at Monterey Bay's Shark Park
Beluga whales in an aquarium interacting with trainers. Belugas are displayed across North America, Europe and Asia. [156] As of 2006, 58 belugas were held in captivity in Canada and the United States, and 42 deaths in US captivity had been reported up to that time.
The whale in the middle comes to the surface clenching a dead shark in its jaws. The great white is about nine-feet-long—“so not a tiny animal,” Towner quips—and the orca is biting it ...