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A new Sealife Centre is opening at Chessington World Of Adventures & Zoo in March 2008, with over 20 marine-life displays containing species ranging from shrimps and starfish to sharks and stingrays. The 250,000 litre aquarium, located within Chessington Zoo in time for the Easter school holidays, allows kids of all ages to go nose to nose with a wide range of sea creatures, while interactive ‘touchpools', exhibitions and a walkthrough ocean tank offer a wow factor to this perfect family day, out as fish swim overhead. Not something you get with a ticket to most zoos!
The National Sea Life Centre at Sealife Birmingham celebrated Valentine’s Day 2008 with a week of underwater love, rehousing a pair of seahorses in separate tanks after their dalliances in the previous month! The pair of Kuda Seahorses – natives of the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean - produced many babies in the breeding centre and were allocated new tanks to cool off and recharge. Their activities included colour-changing, twining tails and leaning towards each other and quivering, with the males giving birth to the young. Visitors can get involved in the fun with an Underwater Love trail, while the seahorses in question have been nicknamed Romeo and Juliet.