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Valencia 2011

City-trip to Valencia, Spain
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This huge bal-shaped cage is housing the 'Wet Lands' exhibition, inside 'Hydrographic.
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This huge bal-shaped cage is housing the 'Wet Lands' exhibition, inside 'Hydrographic.

  • This huge bal-shaped cage is housing the 'Wet Lands' exhibition, inside 'Hydrographic.
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  • The ocean sunfish - of which Mola mola is the scientific name - is a curious beast. It looks like a child's drawing of a fish, probably less realistic than any other fish. But, it does indeed exist, basking in the warm surface waters of all the major oceans of the world. It is both the largest and most fecund bony fish, one 3.1m giant weighing in at 2235kg, and a (considerably smaller) female found to contain an unbelievable 300 million eggs. I've never actually seen one in the wild, and was sceptical about their existence until the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity a couple of years ago, where I saw some tiddlers in one of the remarkable aquaria at the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia.
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  • Unbelievable but TRUE: this squid has THREE hearts....!!!!<br /> Two branchial hearts feed the gills, each surrounding the 3rd larger systemic heart that pumps blood around the body.
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  • The glass is 15 cm thick!!!<br /> The waterpressure is enormous...
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  • Hey folks: this is an artwork that is purely made of.....PLASTIC slippers that YOU threw in the sea.<br /> Thanks!!!
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