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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2017
Latest aquarium exhibit
offers plenty of ‘Bite’
NEWPORT — The Oregon
Coast Aquarium will be all
smiles
Memorial
Day
Weekend as it unveils its
newest exhibit, Big Bites,
which showcases creatures
with feeding adaptations that
are truly cutting edge.
The toothsome fishes of Big
Bites will give visitors plenty
of fascinating natural history to
chew on, said Jim Burke,
Director of Animal Husbandry
at the aquarium.
“Some secure their prey in
the blink of an eye, with dag-
ger-like teeth, while others take
the concept of ‘roughage’ to a
new level and make meals out
of hard coral,” Burke
explained. “There are species
that shear flesh with sharp, ser-
rated teeth, and others that use
flat, broad teeth to crush the
shells of mollusks and crus-
taceans.”
The uniquely arranged jaws
and teeth of fishes featured in
Big Bites allow them to carve
niches for themselves in their
respective environments.
For many of these species,
form follows function—what
(and how) these creatures eat
has shaped their appearance,
sometimes drastically.
Siuslaw
Aquarium enthusiasts will
likely recognize some of these
renowned “big biters”.
“As visitors travel beyond
our Secrets of Shipwrecks
gallery, they will come face to
face with captivating animals
such as porcupinefish, parrot-
fish and piranhas,” said
Evonne
Mochon-Collura,
Curator of Fishes and
Invertebrates at the aquarium.
“The new gallery transports
guests into tropical saltwater
environments
such
as
Australian coral reefs and
warm pockets of the Amazon
Basin, where the waters are
calm but mealtime is anything
but.”
In addition to the infamous-
ly voracious piranha, guests
will meet the Goliath Tigerfish,
a denizen of the Congo River
Basin in Africa. Goliath
Tigerfish are lightning-fast
hunters that lie in wait for prey
to swim past, subduing them
with huge, dagger-like teeth.
Porcupinefish take a differ-
ent approach, essentially swap-
ping the steak knife for a crab
mallet. Inside their beak-like
mouth, the teeth of porcupine-
fish are fused into a “dental
plate” that allows these goo-
gly-eyed fishes to crush shelled
prey such as snails, urchins and
hermit crabs.
The aquarium is incorporat-
ing two new tank shapes into
the exhibit so visitors can view
fish from a novel perspective.
An all-time favorite design
allows guests to crawl inside
not one but two tanks and “pop
up” into the exhibits.
“In these new tanks, our
aquarists have created habitats
that not only support the bio-
logical needs of the new ani-
mals but are visually attractive,
and their attention to detail
yields beautiful results,”
Mochon-Collura added.
Visitors will notice the teal-
colored mouth of a parrotfish
as it grazes through the archi-
tecture of a simulated coral
reef. They can peer among the
branches of Malaysian bog-
wood, their stares reciprocated
by fish equipped with menac-
ing teeth and a crocodile’s
smile.
Starting May 29, the aquari-
um will be open every day this
summer from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Visit aquarium.org or call
541-867-FISH for more infor-
mation or to purchase advance
tickets.
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