Questions....

Does Shamu go Poo-poo?

he is big right? so he must go big poo-poo?

our little fish tank gets so dirty with just small fishes because they dirty it up. So how come Shamu's tank is so clean?

very profound questions!

How come in all those big tanks in places like Sea World, Monterey Bay Aquarium etc. you never see these big giant sized fishes, sharks, whales etc. go poo even once when you can see the fishies go all the time?

I was just stumped by these questions from the 4 year old.

Next time we visit an aquarium we are going to raise our hand and ask these questions.

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Comments

[Sundar Narayanan]

oh well!!

no wonder Shamu draws so many visitors..

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-whale-waste-is-valuable

[Swatantra]

nice question. do let us know the answer also..

[Anonymous]

sundar:

true fact: however better "our times" were, we did not have uncle google to turn to when our parents did not know better.

upon further thinking, maybe it was actually good (that we did not have 'google uncle') ;-).

- s.b.

[Anonymous]

oh btw, i knew ambergris was valuable whale fat (thanks to a mystery story i read when i was a teen), but never until i read that link did i know how exactly it gets created! i guess manatees are called sea cows for a similar reason too, eh?

- s.b.