Shanghai Ocean Aquarium
Twin pyramid-shaped halls housing hundreds of marine species, linked by one of the world's longest underwater viewing tunnels.
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This guide to the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium follows the Chinese sturgeon that once swam the Yangtze by the thousands each year, and the dam built in the early 1980s that cut off their migration route. It traces the species back roughly one hundred forty million years and explains why the aquarium built a dedicated China Zone around this one tank. You'll hear how the government's protected status for the sturgeon compares to its more famous counterpart, the giant panda, and why that comparison only goes so far. Slow down at the China Zone tank before moving on toward the underwater tunnel.
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