Until the Monterrey Bay Aquarium carefully and diligently kept a Great White alive for nearly 6 months the longest any aquarium had been able to keep a captive great white was a mere 16 days. Marine biologists could not figure out why the animals responded so fatally to captive environments. Over time their research revealed a few things which kept the sharks from flourishing, such as the fact that white sharks have to swim with their mouths open constantly or their gills will not open. The other thing they learned had to do with how white sharks feed…
Here’s why you’ll never see a great white in any aquarium
