There is no interaction with any animals, the most exciting part is the short tunnel that you walk through and the odd shark swims over it. As I said this is not even as good as Phuket Aquarium and the cost for it would work out to about R5 or so. Ripley's Aquarium of Canada is less expensive and way better. You pay an astronomical rate to get in and it's literally for nothing. I know it's Brazil but if they want tourists maybe they should look beyond Portuguese. No deep sea animals and nothing is in English so don't count on it being even remotely educational. You walk around and see some small tanks of pretty common tropical fish. From the outside Aquario seems huge but it houses 3 attractions so really its like 1/4 of the building. It takes about 15 minutes to see the whole thing. If you have ever been to a major aquarium don't go, you wont like it. Aquario is simply an over priced gold fish bowl. The aquarium in Phuket is more interesting. It is small and there is nothing special about it. If this is the largest aquarium in South America, then that's very pathetic. I thought to myself this is going to be an amazing place to check out and photograph some species of aquatic life as well as get to interact with different animals that I may have never seen before. I do not think these are advertising or contact calls but more likely mating-ritual calls.I love aquariums and when I saw that the AquaRio was the largest in South America I was super excited. Despite their loudness they are low frequency calls.Ī call record comprising 3 sets of these calls is found here. The “oii, oii, oii” calls can also be heard in one section of the recording. They last 17-22 seconds and comprise 50-60 notes. These calls start very soft then rapidly get very loud. The second, louder call, is a strident “chip, chip”. One call is that as described by Wells (1999) as “pi-hor”. This time there were two distinct calls made, often in unison, and by two different birds that seemed to be sided by side.
The calls I heard at this time were different from the ones I have heard in the past (see this older recording: calls rendered “oii, oii, oii” by Wells). Calls made by one bird were answered by 2 other birds from different locations not necessarily at the same time.
On 18th April 2022 at 1.20pm at 1,800m ASL at Cameron Highlands I came across this group of at least 3 birds (possibly 5) using loud calls – the birds were more heard than seen (not seen well in the undergrowth). I occasionally come across Malayan Partridges in the Cameron Highlands.
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