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| Aquarium of the Americas, New Orleans Louisiana,
USA The aquarium tried to display a scalloped hammerhead shark in 1989, measuring ~40 cm TL. Currently there are no scalloped hammerheads on display. |
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| Beijing Landa Aquarium, China On April 28, 1999 six scalloped hammerhead sharks ranging in size from 50 to 68 cm TL were taken on a 42-hour-long transport from the USA to this Chinese aquarium. One animal died within 2 weeks at the aquarium, an 83% survival rate. No further information is available about the success of the other five specimens, but currently there are no scalloped hammerheads on display. |
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Enoshima Aquarium, Tokyo Japan This very large Japanese aquarium displays several scalloped hammerhead sharks in one of its big tanks, sharing the tank with several blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus). . |
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| Fukushima Aquarium, Japan This state-of-the-art public aquarium, also known as Aquamarine, has displayed several scalloped hammerhead sharks since it opened a pelagic habitat together with tuna, stingrays, sardines and sea turtles. |
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Lisbon Oceanarium, Portugal On August 17, 1999, six scalloped hammerhead sharks were transported to this very large aquarium built for the World Exhibition of 1998 in Portugal's capital to be displayed in the 1.22 million-gallon Global Ocean tank together with other pelagic and benthic species. The specimens, which ranged in size from 50 to 60 cm TL, arrived all healthy to Lisbon after a 60 hour-long airplane transport from the USA. Five specimens could be transferred to the main tank but they all died from predation by larger tank mates, including a giant grouper and other sharks. Currently there are no scalloped hammerheads on display. |
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Maui Ocean Center, Hawaii USA Since it opened to the public that the largest Hawaiian aquarium has been displaying scalloped hammerhead sharks in two different settings: An open air lagoon called Hammerhead Harbor and the indoors 760.000-gallon Open Ocean tank, where these specimens are kept alongside jacks, stingrays, sandbar sharks, spotted eagle rays and occasionally tiger sharks, among other typical species of Hawaii's marine ecosystems. |
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Monterey Bay Aquarium, California, USA The scalloped hammerheads in the Outer Bay Water exhibit (OBW) were transported to MBA for grow-out in November of 2002 and kept in a 30' diameter tank at the tuna center. After display in the temporary show "Sharks Myth and Mystery" (30' by 20' tank), they were moved to OBW in 8/2004, 10/2004, 12/2004, and 3/2005. We currently have three hammers left, as one died on 7/2008 due to internal injuries from a collision. It was 30.1 kg, and 190 cm total length. They are part of a large pelagic community in the OBW, which features bluefin and yellowfin tuna, bonitos, sardines, Galapagos sharks, ocean sunfish, black sea turtles, common dolphinfish, California barracudas and occasionally great white sharks. Details were provided by Manny Eczurra. |
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Oarai Aqua World, Japan (Searching for details) |
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Osaka Aquarium, Japan In the aquarium's 1.4 million-gallon Pacific Ocean tank, several scalloped hammerhead sharks are currently on display together with whale sharks, a tiger shark, a manta ray, a devil ray, tuna, ocean sunfish and many other pelagic and benthic species. |
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| Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, Tacoma Washington
USA The aquarium tried to display scalloped hammerhead sharks in 1990 and again in 1993, bringing a total of 6 neonates (~45 cm TL) to the aquarium facilities. Currently there are no scalloped hammerheads on display. |
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Port of Nagoya Aquarium, Japan Scalloped hammerheads are displayed in a 2200 cubic-meter pelagic habitat alongside with bluefin and yellowfin tunas, sardines, and other pelagic sharks (apparently grey reef sharks).. |
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Reef HQ Aquarium, Townsville, Australia On November 17, 2011 2 scalloped hammerhead sharks, a male and a female about 60 cm TL each and estimated to be about 7 months old, were transported from Cairns to Townsville on a 8 hours trip by road and introduced in the largest living coral reef exhibit in the world (2.5 million litres). These sharks were collected on the Great Barrier Reef. Both animals adapted well to the display and have grown to ~1.0 m for the female and ~1.5m for the male in 2.5 years (measured in April 2014). They are displayed in a tropical reef tank with live corals, sea urchins, myriads of tropical fish and only 4 large fish (2 leopard sharks and 2 shovel nose rays). Details were provided by Severine Thomas. |
M 0.6 m to ~1.45; |
2.5 years |
| Rotterdam Zoo Oceanium, Netherlands On August 17, 1999, six scalloped hammerhead sharks measuring between 50 and 60 cm TL were transported on a 70-hour-long transport to this zoological facility. Currently there are no scalloped hammerheads on display. |
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| Sealife Park, Hawaii In 1985, three specimens ranging in size from 45 to 55 cm TL were brought to this park facilities. Currently there are no scalloped hammerheads on display |
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| Sea World San Antonio, Texas, USA |
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uShaka Marine World in Durban, South Africa A few scalloped hammerhead sharks are kept in the park's shark tank, where one can also observe dusky sharks, sandtiger sharks, sandbar sharks and other species of fish. No more specific data available. |
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