Time goes back to the morning of May 1 2006. Guangxi Beihai Guibei Fishing 12025 fishing boat goes fishing as usual. When it arrived in Qiongzhou Strait, it found the body of a whale, and the ship towed it back to the shore of the North Sea. At first, no one paid attention to whales, until some institutions in Guangdong and Fujian expressed their willingness to buy them, which attracted the attention of relevant departments. At that time, the Fisheries Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture came forward to show that whales are national second-class protected animals and cannot be killed, sold, transported and used without permission. The whale belongs to the state according to law, and then it was decided that Shanghai Fisheries University would make the whale into a specimen for scientific research and teaching.
Then experts from Shanghai Fisheries University flew to Beihai to identify the whale as a male sperm whale. However, because the bodies that have been stored for many days have stinked, experts have to dissect them on the spot with relevant personnel. Just burying the internal organs on the spot requires a lot of lime and alcohol. The experts then simply processed the bones and skin of the sperm whale, numbered them one by one, and then transported the bones and skin weighing five tons to Shanghai by a refrigerated truck with a load of ten tons.
After arriving in Shanghai, Shanghai Fisheries University and Xiamen Shang Biological Specimen Research Institute conducted a study on the specimen stripping, which lasted for one year and finally recovered into two complete specimens: a sperm whale skin specimen and a sperm whale skeleton.
Compared with these two huge "treasures of the town hall", other exhibits can only be regarded as green leaves, but if they are exhibited separately, they are also treasures. Among them are leopard sharks, groupers, Chinese sturgeons, alligators, teeth of red turtles, sperm whales, baleen whales of Brucella whales and various snails donated by Shanghai Ocean Aquarium.
This Chinese sturgeon specimen in the collection is 3.3 meters long and weighs 3 19 kg. It is the largest Chinese sturgeon specimen in China. Acipenser sinensis is distributed in the main stream of the Yangtze River in China, and it is one of the most primitive species of existing fish. It has a history of 65.438+0.4 billion years on the earth and is known as a "living fossil". At the same time, it is also the southernmost species of sturgeon, ranking first among 27 sturgeons in the world. What is even more impressive is its "loyalty"-it always swims back to the hometown of the Yangtze River to have children, hence the name "China". In a sense, it is the nature of the Chinese nation to show amazing hunger tolerance, hard work and the ability to know the way and tell the direction on the way back.
Besides, snails with the most colorful colors in the exhibition hall include conch, snail and spider snail. , as well as four precious snails, namely, Tangguan snail, Giant snail, Nautilus and Oncomelania, all have unique and attractive shapes.
sperm whale
Sperm whale skeleton
snail