| Playout date: | 21st March 2011 (Made August 2010) |
| Camera: | Creative Vado |
| Post Production: | CyberLink Power Director 8 |
| Location: | Sealife Centre, Great Yarmouth |
| Other people featured: | Sophie |
| Genre: | Zoo and Aquarium showcasing |
| Music used: | Quanta Qualia by Hayley Westenra
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| Languages used: | Russian, Ukrainian |
| Animals featured: | Nurse sharks, zebra shark, reef sharks, green sea turtle, Monodactylus fishes |
A film showing the beauty and intelligence of aquarium sharks. The nurse sharks and zebra shark showcased here are a beautiful thing to observe at close range. These are not dangerous attackers in the main for human swimmers, as you will see that the size and form of the mouth is not similar to that of the notorious great whites, etc. Even these smaller fishes like the monos, and also the sea turtle sharing the aquarium are relatively safe from being attacked by the big sharks. The smaller sharks, the reef sharks, are ironically more risky than the big ones, but they are not really large enough to damage a turtle.
The zebra shark (Stegosoma fasciatum) has a long tail which it uses to thrash through schools of larger fishes to stun or kill by impact and then it can turn and eat what it has hit. The monos here are even too small to be impacted by that, and they fly under the zebra shark’s radar – as long as it is kept well-fed!
Enjoy the pure tones of Hayley Westenra, and my atrocious pun in the title that you need to know Italian to be able to get.
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