Dead New Orleans/Gulfport Zoo + Aquarium Animals - Page 3

GateandGarden · #31 09-02-2005, 09:06 PM

http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0830-n..._aquarium.html

from the article:

"update: six bottlenose dolphins moved to a hotel swimming pool survived the storm and were taken this week to Walton Beach, Florida while nine sea lions from the Mississippi park were sent to Sea World in Orlando, Florida). The Gulfport Marine Life Oceanarium aquarium was totally destroyed."

So, the whole facility is gone (

) but it says that the animals are okay.

GypsySorcerer · #32 09-02-2005, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by GateandGarden

http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0830-n..._aquarium.html

from the article:

"update: six bottlenose dolphins moved to a hotel swimming pool survived the storm and were taken this week to Walton Beach, Florida while nine sea lions from the Mississippi park were sent to Sea World in Orlando, Florida). The Gulfport Marine Life Oceanarium aquarium was totally destroyed."

So, the whole facility is gone (

) but it says that the animals are okay.

That's sad news. But I am glad the animals survived.

amber · #33 09-02-2005, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by LongBlackScarf

Of course there would: BLOOD. Not to mention residual tissue. Aligators tear their prey apart!

"DIET
Alligators are nocturnal and feed primarily at night. Younger alligators eat insects, shrimps, snails, small fish, tadpoles and frogs. Adult gators eat fish, birds, turtles, reptiles, and mammals. They swallow their prey whole. Their conical teeth are used for catching the prey, not tearing it apart. Alligators have about 80 teeth; when they are lost they regrow."

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/sub...lligator.shtml

michelle2677 · #34 09-02-2005, 09:17 PM

I am so sad by this too. I am such an animal lover and to think these animals did not even stand a chance because they were in cages and so forth. I also think about people's pets that they could not bring with them. What do you do?? let them go, leave them in your house and pray for the best. I don't know what I would do if someone told me I couldn't take my dogs with me. I know I'm gonna get a lot of flack for this, but I would probably stay with them. If they are going down, I"m going down with them. That is how much I love them...

LongBlackScarf · #35 09-02-2005, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

"DIET
Alligators are nocturnal and feed primarily at night. Younger alligators eat insects, shrimps, snails, small fish, tadpoles and frogs. Adult gators eat fish, birds, turtles, reptiles, and mammals. They swallow their prey whole. Their conical teeth are used for catching the prey, not tearing it apart. Alligators have about 80 teeth; when they are lost they regrow."

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/sub...lligator.shtml

I got my crocodiles and my aligators mixed up.

It's crocs that spin and tear their victims apart. Regardless, there would still be blood in the water from the initial bite. And blood would still be "remains".

amber · #36 09-02-2005, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by LongBlackScarf

I got my crocodiles and my aligators mixed up.

It's crocs that spin and tear their victims apart. Regardless, there would still be blood in the water from the initial bite. And blood would still be "remains".

Meh, drop in the bucket. And surely better than a rotting Lion corpse in the water. Ha, I had to check the website, too, because I forgot which one "clamps and vigorously twirls" it's prey....

Moony · #37 09-02-2005, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

I've been trying not to think about it because that's what makes me saddest of all. The fact that they were trapped b/c they were in cages makes me sick. As an "animal hugger" - I really can't think about it. It's too much.

I feel you on that.

amber · #38 09-02-2005, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Moony

I feel you on that.

yeah. they suffer, because of us.
"if people could put rainbows in jars, they would" - Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes...

Janet · #39 09-02-2005, 10:38 PM

there are no words. It's just horrible of the suffering, people or animals. I feel so incredibly helpless.

lbelle1214 · #40 09-02-2005, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by GateandGarden

I've been heartbroken about the animals ever since I realized Katrina was going to affect the New Orleans and Biloxi areas. Obviously, there's a zoo and an aquarium in New Orleans and Biloxi also has the Marine Education Center (an aquarium) and Marine Life, which has dolphins, sea lions, and birds. The dolphins at Marine Life are the ones that were put in some pools in hotels. I'm hoping those hotels are okay.

I'm thinking about this one old channel catfish I know well who used to live (I guess that would be past tense now) at the Marine Education Center in Biloxi. He was SO very old and very majestic to me. I wonder about him and all the others.

So, I definitely relate to your tree hugger stance.

Me, too!! I don't know if you remember the movie Andre (true story about a sea lion), but he lived at the Marine World in Gulfport....I've thought about him all week after I saw the rescued dolphins....I'm an animal lover. They didn't have the luxury of "deciding" whether to evaculate or not...

lbelle1214 · #41 09-02-2005, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

Sea Lions live in the water....They should've just been able to go out to sea...(although I am unsure that they can live in the warm gulf waters.

) Everytime I watch sea lion shows, they are somewhere cold...

It better have not been Andre...

lbelle1214 · #42 09-02-2005, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Janet

there are no words. It's just horrible of the suffering, people or animals. I feel so incredibly helpless.

Don't feel helpless....we'll welcome you in Texas where we've managed to set up an unbelieveable refuge for these people. Come if you can...there's so much to do. Sure, they need money. But they need everything else too. We'll put you to work....The Dome has been outstanding organized (they had time), two radio stations here raised over $100,000. in 24 hours. Our hospitals formula reps and sending baby formula, I'm going to deliver these babies....you can help me!!!! I'm also a lay midwife.....it's productive and very rewarding. Ya want me to come get ya???

GateandGarden · #43 09-02-2005, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by lbelle1214

Me, too!! I don't know if you remember the movie Andre (true story about a sea lion), but he lived at the Marine World in Gulfport....I've thought about him all week after I saw the rescued dolphins....I'm an animal lover. They didn't have the luxury of "deciding" whether to evaculate or not...

I didn't see that movie. I didn't even know about it. I just looked it up on IMDB...cool! It would have been cooler if they'd filmed it in MS, too.

I'm finding that I get to be more and more of an animal lover the older I get. (Not that I'm old by any stretch of the imagination).

reebokandlace · #44 09-03-2005, 10:04 AM

The Audubon Zoo, the Aquarium of the Americas, the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species in New Orleans survived Hurricane Katrina relatively unscathed according to reports from operators of the facilities. However, in neighboring Mississippi, the Gulport Marine Life Oceanarium aquarium was totally destroyed......During the storm, loss of animal life was reportedly limited to four flamingos at the zoo and a whooping crane at the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species (ACRES). Animal keepers have been flown in by helicopter and supplies will soon be arriving by boat from Baton Rouge Zoo.

WELSH WITCH · #45 09-03-2005, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by GateandGarden

Thanks. I'll go there and see if I can find it.

It was on TV so I'm not sure if it will be on the website.