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The world’s biggest fishbowl

ell-bottoms, lava lamps and Beatlemania. A lot has changed was first published in the 60s under the name including our attitude to captive wildlife. The regular zoo page in a February 1963 issue celebrated the “performers” at a “540,000-gallon tank” in Marineland, California. Bimbo the whale, the editorial marvelled, could “sing, dance, shake hands, wave goodbye, jump completely out of the water and leap a hurdle.” Nowadays, good zoos – and our pages – will always value conservation and welfare over entertainment.

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