Thursday, December 3, 2009

The aquarium!

One of the people in the lab I'm visiting works parttime at Vienna Aquarium. The aquarium is housed in a building that was built to launch missiles during the 2nd World War, and is one of the tallest buildings in the city. He took us up to the roof for a gorgeous view at sunset...
There's also a little tropical house at the aquarium - I love birds. This one hopped right up to us and tried to steal the dangly thing on Arunima's cell phone.

He also gave us a tour of the seahorse breeding aquariums! These are little tiny baby seahorses.
This is a remora on a shark - the remora cleans the shark. The weird thing is that the cleaning part of the fish - the part that's attached to the shark - is the TOP of the fish's head. That's his belly on top - he's got his back pressed up to the shark's back. So strange...
Vienna at night...

1 comment:

Bink said...

Love the sunset picture