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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1960.

A NEWBORN porpoise arrives just in time to swell the 1950-population at the Marine Studios. Scien- tists at the oceanarium keep a careful watch on newcomers to observe their growth and habits.

IMMI [MMIGRATION, births and deaths cauto_constant changes in the population of "Under Sea, USA" Bo it was only natural with the 1950 census takers charpening their pencils, that the authorliles at Marineland, Florida, should also decide to tally up.

divers hind to drop into the two huge tanks at the Marine Studios to check off more than 30,000 specimens housed there.

of the deep, but when schools of smaller oney It wasn't too difficult to list the bigger denizens

flashed by continually, the divers wished they were using adding machines instead of crayons. Even while the census was being taken, new "im. migrants" picked up at sea continued to swell the

Consider their difficulties. Fish won't answer doorbells or stay in one spot long enough liko housewives to answer questions. Only the por- polses would come to the top to be counted, so population.

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AN ACCOMMODATING fany specimen, his eyes balging at the strange behaviour, of his, friends roza topside, slowly swims by. Maybe he's just making sure that be won't be left off the roster.

UNDERSEA CENSUS

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CESUPEK STARPON

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STRIPE

Setting up their headquarters at the bottom of one of the tanks, divers check off hundreds of small fry that drop over to see “what's cooking."

AS THOUGH is wan't difficult enough to count the thousands of tiny - in kod scattering fish sipping about the tank, a couple et curious dorjolane kaps Östtipä

divers, falt they

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