{"id":44587,"date":"2021-04-25T13:27:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T09:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/?p=44587"},"modified":"2021-04-25T13:27:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T09:27:05","slug":"sharks-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/dubai\/en\/feature\/sharks-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"The Baby Sharks Who Started Their Lives At Atlantis Get Ocean Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baby sharks enter open water for the first time!<\/p>\n

Fifteen juvenile Arabian Carpet Sharks and two Honeycomb Stingrays were released back into the ocean, and their new home, at Jebel Ali Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/p>\n

The Jebel Ali Wildlife Sanctuary is a preserved wetland situated along the coast and made up of coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, sandy beaches and soon to be home to Dubai’s newest Mangrove forest.<\/p>\n

The Arabian Carpet Sharks were bred at the Aquarium at Atlantis, The Palm, before their first release into a natural environment. Each of the animals is between 10 months and a year old, they were born at Atlantis\u2019 Fish Hospital and carefully monitored before they were fit to be released into the wild, according to Atlantis.<\/p>\n

And worried swimmers, fear not! There are 350 species of shark and the vast majority are not harmful to humans.<\/p>\n

Baby sharks and rays have a new home<\/h2>\n
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The vets at Atlantis also released a sting ray to the Shark Lagoon<\/h2>\n
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