Infolive.tv International Minute - Japanese Dancing Fish

The latest attraction at the Hakkei-jima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama Japan stars ten thousand sardines but is no canned performance. These tiny starlets dance and swirl around sharks and squid, gently mesmerising the audience with their glittering show twice a day. "Japanese sardines tend to be quite tense and swim around in a circle but when we throw the bait down at them they follow it down creating a pillar," press officer for the aquarium Kayo Manabe told Reuters. "Then when sharks charge into them they change shape again," However, ironically, the sharks - two 3-meter-long sand tiger sharks - are not very good at catching the sardines and rarely bother chasing them. The sardines' real enemies ar