Been watching a YT channel of a guy taking behind the scenes tours of aquariums all over the world.
And with the aquarium keepers giving tours I've noticed a difference in their approach to whats highlighted by these guides.
The focus of the tour of Denmark's Nordsøen Oceanarium were on the Mola Mola (Ocean Sunfish) a fucked up lil dopey dude. How they navigate feeding a fish with such a specific diet. And a Mackrel a staple food of people in the area. They talk about their attempts to recreate the open ocean in the area and having the aquarium seem to lead off into the endless ocean.
And snapping over the Henry Doorley Zoo in America and it feels like the tour guide is badly hiding his disdain for the fresh water exhibits and calls them 'Big Brown Fish'. Casually offhandedly talking about a confiscated cat fish that is illegal to import with no explanation as to why. Just offhandedly naming off fish in the exhibit. He calls the Arapaima the 'Fish you wanna see' and rattles off the numbers on the size and points out that it has 'plated scales' and is 'virtually impenetrable' like a child talking about how IronHide should've survived Dark of the Moon.
But one of the things that REALLY put me off is them boasting about being the only aquarium to have West African Sea Nettles on display. And then proceeding to highlight the fact that they don't supply other aquariums with the Jellyfish because they want to be the only ones to have it.
Hello? You're keeping them from bragging rights? I know that Jellyfish aren't the most exciting thing, but you really wanna boast about that? You're gonna go over to Africa, steal a couple Jellyfish, and keep them to yourselves? This pasty white keeper saw what the British Museum was doing and thought 'Nah, I want a slice of that pie'. Fuck off.