Comments on: ‘Very hush-hush’: Three large stingrays die at Melbourne Sea Life due to unknown cause https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/27/three-stingrays-death-melbourne-sea-life-aquarium-unknown-cause/ On politics, media, business, the environment and life Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:36:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 By: Hoojakafoopy https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/27/three-stingrays-death-melbourne-sea-life-aquarium-unknown-cause/#comment-748428 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:36:40 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1171959#comment-748428 They may not want you to see death at “Sea Life” but how can there not be a pall over aquaria and zoos? I’ve been only once to the aquarium in Sydney because a friend wanted to visit for her birthday. I only remember three enormous eels prone diagonally in a tiny tank. They already looked dead. Horrible.

]]> By: Gonggongche https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/27/three-stingrays-death-melbourne-sea-life-aquarium-unknown-cause/#comment-748327 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 05:23:30 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1171959#comment-748327 In reply to Michael Smith.

Yes, should animals be enclosed for our pleasure?

]]> By: Michael Smith https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/27/three-stingrays-death-melbourne-sea-life-aquarium-unknown-cause/#comment-748301 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 03:48:44 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1171959#comment-748301 Working with show animals for money is fraught with all sorts of issues. Its why circuses dont do it anymore.

]]> By: Bolivar diGriz https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/08/27/three-stingrays-death-melbourne-sea-life-aquarium-unknown-cause/#comment-748291 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 03:31:43 +0000 https://www.crikey.com.au/?p=1171959#comment-748291 Oh, FFS! “They’ve passed.”

I knew fish had schools. I never realised that they had exams though.

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