Re: [RML] Display Suggestions

Mike Adams (mfadam1 at pop.uky.edu)
Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:29:07 -0500 (EST)

You would think that a public aquarium would be the ONE place you could go
and see an accurate depiciton of a particular piece of an aquatic ecosystem.
I, too, was very disappointed with Shedd several months ago. I'm just a
grad student who happens to work in a pet store but I would be able to
create more lifelike captive ecosystems than they do at Shedd. And I don't
think it's a lack of funding either

mike

At 08:24 AM 2/26/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Since the conversation has been on public displays in zoos and
>aquariums not being representitive of natural habitats, I thought I'd
>put my 2-bits in.
>
>I went to Chicago last year and went to the Shedd Aqurium there and
>honestly was really dissapointed. There was a lot of algae, the plants
>in the tanks that were supposed to be representitive of certain
>biotypes were really wrong. For example they had South American
>terrestrials, and Asian aqautic plants in the tanks that were supposed
>to represent North American waters. Why do they do this? It seems that
>if your going to try to educate the public you should at least be
>giving them the right information. Is it that they themselves don't
>know? And if they don't how in the world do they get these jobs?
>
>Rhonda
>
>
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Mike Adams, Jr.
Graduate Studies in Engineering
University of Kentucky
College of Engineering

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