At the Sea Life aquarium in Auckland, New Zealand, Sony technicians working with the aquarium's animal trainers taught Rambo, a female octopus, to press the shutter on a special camera and take pictures of the visiting public (each photo sells for $NZ2 to support the aquarium's conservation programmes).
As I drink and rest, I chuckle as I see he has an aquarium.
In the city centre, the "Hole in the Road" (or Castle Square, as it was officially known), with its subterranean passageways, escalators and tropical aquarium, embodied a city looking towards a rosy future.
AND FINALLY It's an easy mistake for a rainbow trout casually swimming around the Lake District aquarium to make.
Installations will appear on street corners: giant books cascading from a window; a huge red ball squeezed between buildings; and an enormous aquarium.
Experiments at Seattle aquarium prove that octopuses can tell individual humans apart – even when the people are dressed identically – just by looking up at them through the water.
To the glee of giggly readers, it shatters the aquarium, "leaving the flagstones slick with water, Perspex and surprised lobsters" and leaving customers "submerged in éclairs, cheesecake and pavlova".
When I would visit my octopus friend, Octavia, at New England aquarium, usually she would look me in the face, flow right over to see me, and flush red with emotion when she took my arms in hers.
This complex of biomes, with an integrated aquarium and a garnish of native prairie, is now known as Earthpark.
One of its strangest anecdotes is about Mark Clark, an American general in the second world war, being served up the last inhabitant of the Naples aquarium, a baby manatee.
As imagined by Robert Congel of Pyramid Companies, the project's developer, the $20 billion mall would be powered by alternative energies and cover some 800 acres, luring tourists to shops, restaurants, an aquarium, a water park, a golf course and thousands of hotel rooms, among other attractions.
