Animal Quote by John Grant

The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.

— Pierce Brosnan

The ocean is a place of paradoxes. It is the home of the great white shark, two-thousand-pound killer of the seas, and of the…

— Rachel Carson

The Giant Ocean Tank, with its 52 large viewing windows, is the main attraction here. Myrtle, a giant green sea turtle, is one of…

— John Grant

The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular.

— John Grant

It took me six years going to the Amazon, three months at a time, to actually track down the arapaima. That's commonly said to…

— Jeremy Wade

There are 6.5 Billion other fish in the sea. That's 6,500 x 1 million. Yeah.

— Anonymous

The arapaima, found in South America, has an elongated body and a head so bony that the male fish will sometimes kill each other…

— Jeremy Wade

I think that most people would associate big schools of fish with healthy coral reefs. At Kingman, the predators keep the herd thin, so…

— Brian Skerry

Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant) share an…

— Nelson Mandela

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a…

— Sylvia Earle

Since I began exploring the ocean in the 1950s, 90 percent of the big fish have been stripped away. Tuna, sharks, swordfish, cod, halibut,…

— Sylvia Earle

I did a series in 2002 called 'Jungle Hooks.' We did a show on the arapaima fish, which is thought to be the largest…

— Jeremy Wade