FAQS: Exhibits Unit
What do you feed the spotted gars displayed in the Earth Sciences Gallery, and how often?
Gars are ancient fish; their ancestors have been on the planet for 100 million years. They are voracious carnivores that eat other fish, snatching their prey sideways in their long slender jaws and eventually working them around to go down head first. The three spotted gars in the Earth Sciences Gallery (named Humphrey Bogar, Terri Gar and Betty Garble) eat seven live goldfish every three days. Visitors that gaze into the tank can imagine what Saskatchewan must have been like as a prehistoric watery world in which relatives of the gar swam amongst gigantic marine reptiles like the mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. Unfortunately, the spotted gar is now listed by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) as a threatened species.
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