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Sea World Ancol

Coordinates: 7°07′32″S 106°50′34″E / 7.12556°S 106.84278°E / -7.12556; 106.84278
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Sea World Ancol
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Date opened1980
LocationAncol, North Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia
No. of animals3500+
No. of species500+
Major exhibits8+
Websitewww.ancol.com/destination/sea-world-ancol
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Sea World Jakarta or also known Sea World Ancol is a marine aquarium suited in North Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia. It consists of a main tank, an shark tank, and several other tanks, including a turtle exhibit. The Main tank of SeaWorld Ancol is one of the biggest aquarium in Southeast Asia. SeaWorld Ancol was briefly closed in September 2014 but reopened on July 17, 2015, to the public. SeaWorld Ancol is currently expanding to turn the aquarium into the world's largest sea park.[1]

The aquarium used to keep a couple of dugong named Doel and Diana since 2000, both died in 2016.[2] In 2018, SeaWorld rescued a baby dugong that was caught by fishermen. After being treated intensively and being able to start eating seagrass, the baby dugong was able to be released back into its natural habitat.[3] The dugong aquarium now houses sea turtles.

Parni the giant stingray was the former icon of SeaWorld Ancol. Parni was caught by fishermen from Palabuhanratu, Sukabumi, West Java. The aquarium rescued Parni and placed in the main aquarium. Parni lived in SeaWorld for nine years until it died in 2008 due to old age. Parni's body was preserved and placed in the aquarium's museum.[4]

SeaWorld Ancol considered making a reptile exhibit called HerpetoZone and a Humboldt penguin exhibit, but were cancelled due to lack of funding and space. They also considered introducing the ocean sunfish and mahi-mahi to their main aquarium, but it was canned since these two species required large, open exhibits with no rocks nor reefs. A plan for a Raja Ampat Islands thematic exhibit that featured species such as the Indonesian speckled carpetshark was canned as well. The penguin exhibit plan was transferred to Ocean Dream Samudera in 2018, which they managed to build and open in 2019.

Sea World has drawn controversy among Indonesian environmental activists when they plan to bring in a whale shark from the water of Berau Regency, East Kalimantan to the main aquarium. They worry that the whale shark will be stressed and eventually die when kept in the aquarium.[5] The refusal was submitted via an online petition at Change.org.[6] SeaWorld denied the whale shark plans, saying that the whale shark was not in the cooperation agreement with the Berau Regency government.[7]

In 2013, Sea World Jakarta acquired 10 scalloped hammerhead sharks from the Farglory Ocean Park in Taiwan, becoming the first and only public aquarium to keep the hammerhead shark in Indonesia. After a period of adjustment, six hammerhead sharks is displayed in the aquarium's shark tank in December 2013.[8] As of 2022, no hammerhead sharks were on display.

Exhibits

Sea World Jakarta exhibits and species as of 2022.

River View

Amazonia

Arowana aquarium

Sea turtle aquarium

Lungfish aquarium

Piranha

Wetland

Turtle exhibit

Mangrove exhibit

Gar exhibit

Moray eel exhibit

Angelfish aquarium

Venomous fish aquarium

Triggerfish aquarium

Pufferfish aquarium

Lobster aquarium

Threadfish aquarium

Garden eel aquarium

Seahorse aquarium

Aquascapes

Planted aquascape

Mountain pass-themed aquascape

Iwagumi aquascape

Waterfall-themed aquascape

Coral reef aquarium

Sharkquarium

Touch Pools

Jellyfish Sphere

Car aquarium

Kitchen-themed aquarium

Telephone booth aquarium

Truck aquarium

Antasena Tunnel

Museum

SeaWorld Jakarta have a display of preserved remains of marine life, which include Parni the giant stingray and various other saltwater fish. An exhibit located inside a wooden ship called "Misteri Kehidupan Laut Dalam" (Mystery of the Deep Sea) displays various preserved deep sea creatures, such as the whip-lash squid, blind lobsters, thorny tinselfish, mirror dory, roughy, splendid alfonsino, pencil coffinfish, longwing spinyfin, slimeheads, small-scaled brown slickhead, rattail, shortnose spurdog, cusk-eel, snake mackerel, and robust armoured-gurnard.[9] The exhibit also display an Indonesian coelacanth,[10] as well as Gudel the giant Pacific octopus and a Japanese spider crab, both of whom are former living inhabitants of the aquarium.[11][12]

See also

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References

  1. ^ "Ancol to Build World's Largest SeaWorld Park in Two Years' Time". Tempo. Retrieved 2017-06-18.
  2. ^ "Quality of Life of a Dugong in SeaWorld Ancol Needs to be Maintained (30 January 2016)".
  3. ^ "Facebook".
  4. ^ Parni.m4v. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-09.
  5. ^ "Hiu Paus Akan Masuk Akuarium Raksasa di Ancol?". 2 April 2018.
  6. ^ "Ramai-ramai menolak rencana Berau kirim hiu paus ke Ancol". 21 March 2018.
  7. ^ "Pihak Ancol Bantah Pengiriman Hiu Paus Berau Ada dalam MoU". 17 March 2018.
  8. ^ "Seaworld Datangkan Hiu Martil". 5 December 2013.
  9. ^ "Sea World Ancol on Facebook". Facebook. Archived from the original on 2022-04-30.[user-generated source]
  10. ^ @ancoltmnimpian (5 February 2016). "Liat ikan Purba seperti Ikan Raja Laut/Coleacanth yuk! Ayo ke Museum Seaworld Ancol #Seaworld #purba #AncolLuarBiasa" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  11. ^ "Gudel Gurita, Pilih Indonesia Menang : Okezone Bola". 28 December 2010.
  12. ^ "Liburan di Seaworld Bersama Kepiting Laba Laba".
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