Zoological Society bulletin . willtake no food and soon weaken and die. Pos-sibly very young individuals might give differentresults, but these we have not been able to ob-tain. All the larger turtles arc kept in the harborwater, though in nature they live in the purestsea-water of the open ocean. Other Aquariums.—American cities have beenslow to perceive the importance of the publicaquarium as a means of entertainment and The Large Turtles.—Both the green and logger-head turtles live well in cap-tivity, no matter what theirage, provided, of course, thatthey have sustained no in-juries in capt
Zoological Society bulletin . willtake no food and soon weaken and die. Pos-sibly very young individuals might give differentresults, but these we have not been able to ob-tain. All the larger turtles arc kept in the harborwater, though in nature they live in the purestsea-water of the open ocean. Other Aquariums.—American cities have beenslow to perceive the importance of the publicaquarium as a means of entertainment and The Large Turtles.—Both the green and logger-head turtles live well in cap-tivity, no matter what theirage, provided, of course, thatthey have sustained no in-juries in capture or duringtransportation. There are at presenttwelve green turtles of vari-ous sizes in the New YorkAquarium. The smallestweighs not more than tenpounds, the largest aboutfour hundred. One specimenfrom the South Pacific Oceanwas brought around CapeHorn in a sailing vessel andpresented to the Aquariumin 1898. It is in excellentcondition after fourteenyears of confinement. One loggerhead was re-ceived on August 29, 1900,. TRUNKFISHES • humpbacked Buffalo Trunkfish. the common Trunkfish and the horned Cowfishare all represented in the same tank. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 937 -*.
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