Gigantic Beluga whale welcomes esteemed visitors to Hakkeijima Sea Paradise
As near as I can figure out from their web site, the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama outside of Tokyo employs trained Beluga whales as greeters at their fun ocean park, much the same as America's own Wal*Mart does, except with sea creatures instead of humans.
Shown above is one of their "Sea Ambassadors" singing to a visitor in order to foster greater communication between man and sea. He is held against his will inside a three-story aquarium "packed to the gills" with thousands of fish.
The Hakkeijima Sea Paradise is truly "like being in a resort area where you can enjoy yourself just strolling around." Unfortunately, there's nothing about these trained giant white whales on the English side of their site, so my translation might be wrong.
hey man i think its a great idea to compile all kinds of huge fish in one web site, i find myself amused by this kind os pictures too, and waste lots of time searching for more kinds of insanely huge fish, you should look for some sturgeons, flatfishes, and sunfishes. weird enough i found once a photograph of a huge flatfish, i just wish i could find it again.
Posted by: victor on January 18, 2007 04:13 PM
