Then, check out what has happened to this poor finner during a six month stay at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. These pictures come from Underwater Times, and they document the disintegrating snout, and open sores developing on what should be an open-ocean creature. The Great White killed two other sharks in the tank earlier in the week, and aquarium officials profess to be at a loss why. Really? Well, how about because the poor mother is going insane from bumping into glass walls, not to mention the pain of having one’s nose disintegrate. This is just Exhibit 346,347 in the endless argument against penning, caging or otherwise confining beasts and animals that aren’t wired for confinement. Have I got you worked up at all? Good, send an email to Julie Packard, Executive Director and Vice Chairman of the aquarium’s Board of Trustees, and tell her what you think…. 
Before: “Lookin’ good. Feelin’ good. I’m a lean mean, eating machine…”
Six Months Later: “Damn, I’m like the Elephant Man, and even the horseshoe crabs are laughing at me. I wish those aquarium assh*les would get in the tank with me for a little in-water check-up…”
“They probably think I’ve got a massive coke habit…”
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