|
Ripley's Aquarium of Canada is a public aquarium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The aquarium is one of three aquariums owned and operated by Ripley Entertainment. It is located in downtown Toronto, just southeast of the CN Tower. The aquarium features several aquatic exhibits including a walk-through tank. The aquarium has 5.7 million litres (1.5 million gallons) of marine and freshwater habitats from across the world. The exhibits hold 13,500 exotic sea and freshwater specimens from more than 450 species. ==History== Ripley's Aquarium of Canada was originally planned in 2004 to be built in Niagara Falls, Ontario next to what is now Great Wolf Lodge around 2007, but plans fell through and Ripley's eventually relocated to Toronto. Construction began on the attraction in August 2011 with a final cost approaching C$130 million.〔http://www.680news.com/2013/10/16/ripleys-aquarium-of-canada-set-to-open-wednesday/〕 The aquarium opened to the public in October 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada opens its doors )〕 The project was a partnership with three levels of government. The Canada Lands Company of the Government of Canada contributed $10 million to the project to develop the "John Street Corridor" linking Front Street with the aquarium, the CN Tower and the Rogers Centre. The Government of Ontario contributed $11 million to the project, and the City of Toronto provided property-tax incentives amounting between $8 million and $12 million over the first twelve years of the aquarium.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ripley's Aquarium of Canada )〕 Ripley's Aquarium has been the target of animal liberation groups such as TARA (Toronto Aquarium Resistance) and MAD (Marineland Animal Defence) who claim that animal captivity is synonymous with animal abuse and regularly conduct protests and demonstrations at the facility. Prominent animal conservationist Bob Timmons has also publically spoken out against Ripley Aquarium's capture of endangered tiger sharks.〔http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/08/20/ripleys_aquarium_facing_opposition_over_sharks.html〕 == Exhibits == The aquarium holds 5.7 million litres (1.5 million gallons) of water and shows marine and freshwater habitats from around the world. The aquarium is organized into nine galleries: Canadian Waters, Rainbow Reef, Dangerous Lagoon, Discovery Centre, The Gallery, Ray Bay, Planet Jellies, Life Support Systems and the Shoreline Gallery. It is home to 16,000 animals.〔 * The Canadian Waters exhibit features animals from all the bodies of water surrounding Canada. The gallery has 17 habitats. Some animals featured in this exhibit include: alewife, largemouth bass, American lobster, wolf eel, lump fish, giant pacific octopus, china rockfish〔 The Rainbow Reef features animals from the Indo-Pacific water regions and is the most colourful gallery in the exhibit, hence the name, Rainbow Reef. Some of the species in this exhibit include: Picasso triggerfish, humbug dascyllus, emperor angelfish, pajama cardinalfish, unicorn surgeonfish. The exhibit also features an interactive dive show.〔 * The Dangerous Lagoon is an underwater tunnel with a moving side walk, which is the aquarium's largest tank. Some of the featured animals in this thrilling exhibit are: sand tiger shark, sandbar shark, roughtail stingray, green sawfish, green sea turtles.〔 * The Discovery Centre features various hands-on activities such as underwater viewing bubbles, a pop-up research submarine and a touch pool which allows visitors to touch living fossils. Discovery Centre inhabitants include: clownfish, palette surgeonfish, horseshoe crab, guineafowl puffer.〔 The Touch exhibits gives visitors the opportunity to touch the skins of various animals like sharks and sting-rays with the help of aquarium employees. This gallery is home to whitespotted bamboo sharks, brownbanded bamboo sharks, southern stingray, cownose rays.〔 * The Gallery exhibit, also known as Mother Nature's Art Gallery, features some of the most delicate underwater species from all over the world. This exhibit features the red lionfish, electric eel, lined seahorse, weedy sea dragon and the archerfish. This exhibit features six salt water and three fresh water exhibits.〔 * The Planet Jellies exhibit has colour changing displays with five different species of jellyfish. The jellyfish that this exhibit features are: pacific sea nettle, moon jelly, spotted jelly, and upside-down jelly.〔 The Ray Bay exhibit is focused around three distinct species of stingrays. Occasionally visitors can see aquarium divers feeding the stingrays during their daily interactive dive shows. Some of the inhabitants of this exhibit include the bonnethead shark, cownose ray, and the southern stingray.〔 * The Life Support System gives visitors a behind the scenes look at the aquarium’s life support systems room. The Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada features the largest life support systems room of all three Ripley’s aquariums. This gallery features the equipment for the Dangerous Reef and Ray Bay. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ripley's Aquarium of Canada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|