{"id":1584,"date":"2023-06-24T19:17:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T19:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2023-07-09T22:20:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T22:20:23","slug":"oceanario-de-lisboa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/2023\/06\/24\/oceanario-de-lisboa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean\u00e1rio de Lisboa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The giant tank of the Oceanario de Lisboa is in this building. We entered via the ramp on the right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Ocean\u00e1rio de Lisboa is a wonderful treat for fans like us of fish and ocean life. It\u2019s in the Parque de Na\u00e7\u00f5es neighborhood on Lisboa\u2019s Tejo river near the Oriente train and metro stations. The main exhibit is a huge tank that you can observe from many viewing windows. Each viewpoint has its own aquascaping, and the tank is so big, you can\u2019t see across, so it seems bigger than it is. There are some really big rays and sharks, and there are large schools of little fish and medium sized fish at different levels of the tank. Water crashes in at the top like waves, oxygenating the water. At one point, fish food dumped in at the top too and schools of fish got excited as they swam through the clouds of krill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of many sharks that roam the big ocean tank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Large school of small fish in the giant tank getting a feeding of krill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Feeding time in the giant tank at the Oceanario de Lisboa <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the big tank, there are four satellite tanks around it with landscaping as well as underwater environments. Each one simulates a different ocean \u2013 North Atlantic with puffins, guillemots and razorbills that can actually fly around freely within the exhibit – very cool!; Antartic with Magellanic penguins and Inca terns; Indian Ocean with a dense rainforest; northern Pacific with sea otters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guillemot, a bird of the North Atlantic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Inca terns, native to the Pacific coast of South America, from Peru south to Chile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I love the Portuguese name for the puffin \u2013 papagaio-do-mar. Papagaio is an ancient word for parrot. The word also makes me think of Papageno, the comic birdcatcher character in Mozart\u2019s opera \u201cThe Magic Flute\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A puffin splashes around in the North Atlantic exhibit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here’s their website: https:\/\/www.oceanario.pt\/exposicoes\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a fascinating “temporary” exhibit of a freshwater aquarium titled Florestas Submersas \u2013 submerged forests. The tank is 40 meters long, in a U shape.  Its artistic presentation of tropical underwater habitat is full of beautiful plants and 40 species of colorful fish. The designer Takashi Amano was an expert in planted aquariums, bringing the concepts of a Japanese garden to the design. It made me nostalgic for our own planted aquarium which we had to dismantle when we left Massachusetts. Some of the fish were species we had too. I wish I knew how they kept their tank so clean and free of algae!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Freshwater tank at the Oceanario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Species Tanks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Leafy Seadragon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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North Atlantic Cod<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted Moray Eel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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