Posts Tagged ‘fish’
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Featured! Live humans!
It turns out that going to the aquarium is a much more exciting affair when the illusion of untainted nature that is presented is broken radically and repeatedly by the intrusion of human keepers into the scene. During spring vacation I went to the Osaka Aquarium, the Kaiyukan, with my friends Dirk and Nichole, who […]
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Tags: aquarium, aquarium workers, crabs, divers, dolphins, feeding time, fish, illusion of nature, Kaiyukan, marine animals, marine life, Osaka Aquarium, penguins, placostamus, romance, sealife, seals, tank cleaners, tanks, the life aquatic, whale shark, 大阪, 海遊館
At Tsukiji
This winter vacation, six friends of mine (six!) came out for a visit — first to Tokyo, and then down to the Kansai area, where I live. Since jet lag is a wonderful thing and WILL get you out of bed so delightfully early in the morning, my friends and I decided that a 5 […]
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Tags: abundance, cod fishing, 築地市場, depletion of world fish stocks, fish, fish market, fisheries, fishing, labor, overfishing, sashimi, sushi, Tokyo, Tsukiji, tuna, tuna auction, working, 刺身, 寿司, 東京
Kaiyukan redux
Since I’ve already written about the Kaiyukan, I suppose this entry is primarily an excuse to post some more pictures of jellyfish and penguins. In any case, on December 18th — Hsuan’s last day in Osaka before heading off to Nara for research — Hsuan, J., and I went to the Osaka Aquarium, or Kaiyukan, […]
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Tags: animals, aquarium, fish, Kaiyukan, Osaka Aquarium, sea creatures, Tempozan, Tempozan Harbor Village, 海遊館
Kaiyukan
On August 2, Aya-san and I went to Osaka’s Kaiyukan (海遊館), one of the premier aquariums in the world. So premier that it actually has an enormous central tank that holds a genuine whale shark (of course, there’s an aquarium in Okinawa with TWO whale sharks). The layout of the Kaiyukan is really interesting. The […]
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Tags: animals, aquarium, fish, Kaiyukan, Osaka Aquarium, sea creatures, Tempozan, Tempozan Harbor Village, 海遊館
