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Friday, June 1, 2007

New whale sharks arrive in Atlanta

It's a big day at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, as two new whale sharks arrived this morning. The pair of whale sharks-the world's largest fish-were on a flight of eight-thousand miles from Taiwan. The new sharks arrive just over four months since the death of 'Ralph', a whale shark that died in January. The two new whale sharks will join a male at the Aquarium-'Norton', and two females-'Alice' and 'Trixie'. The new whale sharks have been given Asian names to honor their origins: 'Taroko' and 'Yushan'--named for a national park and a mountain in Taiwan.

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