$200 mil aquarium in Georgia

[Future_herp.]

Man I wish that I lived in Georgia. I would LIVE at this place. It is literally gargantuan.
http://www.georgiaaquarium.org/

I heard they had a whale shark.

Aren't those the biggest animals on earth today?

Man that is big. And It was pretty much donated by a super-rich guy.

[Alika]

I would be impressed if they could house a whale shark. In fact, I would make a special trip to Georgia just to see that... I just don't really see it happening...

Actual whales are larger than whale sharks. The blue whale is the largest living animal.

Though there are plants and funguses that are larger even than the blue whale and are considered to be the largest living organisms... but that is a completely different story.

[Future_herp.]

Their biggest tank is 6.2 million gallons, and yes they do have whale sharks. It says so on their "about us" page. Their second largest aquarium is 800k gallons in which they put beluga whales.

[Alika]

I'm on the about us page, and I'm not seeing what you're seeing... I'm going to keep looking through the website, though. Housing whale sharks is quite the endeavor, and I meant what I said about driving to Georgia to see that.

Now we just need some of that money filtering down yonder so our aquarium can get built

Actually, I take that back... we need money filtering down yonder to fix our aviary up all nice and spiffy first.

[Alika]

Okay, I see it now. Very, very impressive. Wouldn't that be something to see? I envy Georgians for this.

If anyone else is curious about the whale shark exhibit, this is the link I found that mentions it. I had to read it three times to find it, but maybe I'm just tired.

http://www.georgiaaquarium.org/explo...anVoyager.aspx

They are also keeping hammerhead sharks. Five years ago, very few facilities in the world could house them. I don't know what the status is now, but it's still impressive to me.

I almost choked when I read a reference about right whales... the first time I read it, I thought they were saying they HAD them, but on second glance it is a video and a scale model, not the live animals

Thanks for the announcement. I am very interested, if you can't tell.

[ChadRamsey]

we have 2 whale sharks! i got my family season passes. we are going sunday for the fist time. i will post pics when i get back.

chad

[JuliusSqueezer]

Whale sharks are the largest FISH on the planet...and yeah, we don't have A whale shark. We have whale sharkS

[Alika]

Originally Posted by lethargiic

ie... the great barrier reef off the coast of aussie land..

Actually, I was referring to a grove of aspens and a forest full of a single organism mushroom in, I believe, South America. GBR is good, but is that one organism? It's lots of individual plants and animals, isn't it?

[Future_herp.]

ya i think you are right alika, i believe that aspens would be the largest because just one tree can create an entire forest, and they will all have the same DNA.