By Rachael Risby Raz | International Relations Manager
The Gottesman Family Aquarium together with the Tisch Family Zoo were pleased to be able to host hundreds of families from the South of Israel during the period of rocket fire from Gaza last month.
The City of Jerusalem sponsored nearly 2000 people from the Ashkelon area who were bused in for a fun day out. Additionally, both the Aquarium and the Zoo offered greatly discounted entry tickets to all visitors coming from areas where school had been cancelled because of the ongoing rocket attacks from Gaza. Many families from the towns and kibbutzes near Gaza as well as from other areas in Israel under fire, took advantage of this discount to come and bring their children for a quiet day in Jerusalem, away from the sirens and booms.
Recent new arrivals at the Aquarium include two gorgeous and elegant reticulate whiprays (Himantura uarnak).
Also called honeycomb whiprays, their dorsal sides are covered in an intricate pattern of conspicuous dark spots from which it gets the reticulate (meaning resembling a net or network) part of its name.
Geographically they can be found in French Polynesia, Australia, the African southern and west coast, Indo-Pacific, Taiwan, and have been introduced to the Red Sea and eastern Mediterranean.They inhabit tropical and subtropical waters in sandy areas of coral reefs and in lagoons and estuaries.
Keep warm!
Rachael and the Aquarium Team
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