"What's wrong with the whale shark"...中 The reason why visitors are angry at the aquarium

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An aquarium in China has been controversial for deceiving tourists and displaying robot sharks rather than real ones.

According to a recent New York Post report, "Xiaomeisha Sea World" in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, reopened on the 1st after five years of refurbishment. The area here is 60,000 square meters, and it was popular, with more than 100,000 people visiting in the week after the reopening.

In particular, the aquarium put forward "the world's largest whale shark more than 60 feet (18 meters) long," but visitors were strongly criticized online, saying they had been "scammed."

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This is because the whale shark displayed in the aquarium is a robot. The robot in the glass of the aquarium has a clear gap in the body parts connected to each other and its movement is unnatural, making it easy to see that it is not a real whale shark but a robot.

There was a series of protests among visitors who noticed this. "Many people realized that the whale shark on display was nothing more than a mechanical doppelganger and felt cheated," the New York Post said.

Some of the visitors, who paid $40 (about 54,000 won), protested the aquarium and demanded a refund of the admission fee.

The aquarium explained that robot sharks were brought in because of a law prohibiting the trade of endangered whale sharks.

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team