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Article: Aquarium releases great white shark.
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- Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
- Article date:
- March 31, 2005
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Byline: Laylan Connelly
SANTA ANA, Calif. _ A female great white shark that was caught off Huntington Beach last August and became a celebrity at the Monterey Bay Aquarium was released back into the wild before sunrise Thursday.
It had started looking at it's aquarium-mates as dinner _ acting like a hunter _ and snacked on a couple soupfin sharks last month, said aquarium officials. And the white shark had grown so much during its six-month stay that handling it became difficult.
On Monday, biologists saw clear signs that it was hunting other fish species in the million-gallon Outer Bay exhibit in which it was living.
The great white ...