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    Great White Sharks are greatly misinterpreted as vicious man-eaters because of the media‚ movies‚ and people ’s imaginations‚ but they are actually large fish who mistake people for seals and other marine life. What is a great white shark? The great white‚ among the least understood of Earth ’s creatures‚ is an apex predator‚ meaning that it is at the top of the food chain with no natural predators. This means great whites have their pick of food when it comes to selecting their prey (Klimley 15)

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    The Natural History of the Great White Shark (GREAT) WHITE SHARK: Kingdom- Animalia‚ Phylum- Vertebrata‚ Class- Chondrichthyes‚ Order – Lamniformes‚ Family – Lamnidae‚ Genus – Carcharodon‚ Species – carcharias [Martins & Knickle 2010] The great white shark‚ Carcharodon carcharias‚ which is also known as the white shark and white pointer‚ has‚ been one of the most feared creatures on earth‚ they are viewed as killing machines that will stop at nothing‚ this stereotype of Carcharodon carcharias

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    great white shark‚ Carcharodon carcharias‚ also known as the great white‚ white pointer‚ white shark‚ or white death‚ is a species of large lamniform shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans. The great white shark is mainly known for its size‚ with the largest individuals known to have approached or exceeded in length‚ and in weight. This shark reaches its maturity around 15 years of age and can have a life span of over 30 years. The great white shark is arguably

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    ADV 850 Fall Semester 2014 Case: Shark Fin Soup Case Student: Jianhong HU (Willing) 1. Describe the company in the case Hong Kong Disneyland‚ a 310-acre amusement park‚ is a joint venture between the Hong Kong government‚ who possesses 57 percent of the project‚ and Disney. The project is an adaptation of the American Disneyland but on a smaller scale. The aim of the project is to provide a family vocation resort to this financial based city. Though the project brings significant economic

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    Sand Tiger Shark. The Carcharias Taurus has many names because it is known in many parts of the world and they are named differently‚ for example: grey nurse shark‚ ground shark‚ spotted ragged tooth shark‚ slender-tooth shark‚ spotted sand tiger shark and ground shark. Currently the Sand Tiger Shark is vulnerable and is still living in some areas of the world today. The domain of the Sand Tiger Shark is Eukaryote and its phylum is chordate. According to National Geographic Sand Tiger Shark get their

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    Shark culling has become the new issue for the Australian media. Over the past three years‚ after seven fatal shark attacks in Western Australia’s waters‚ Premier Colin Barnett‚ declared to kill any shark bigger than three meters spotted in the designated kill zones. This culling has killed many sharks and is going to result to the extinction of these species. Miranda Devine published an opinion piece with the headline “A tasty dish for a very big fish… and it’s all our fault” in The Daily Telegraph

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    Cookie cutter shark ------------------------------------------------- Features: The Cookiecutter Shark combines many specialized features that enable it to carve out a living in the deep-sea. Like many mesopelagic sharks‚ it has an elongated body cavity filled with an enormous liver comprising as much as 35% of its total weight. The Cookiecutter’s liver is perfused with low-density oils which render the shark nearly neutrally buoyant over a wide range of depths and thereby saves energy by

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    A Study on the Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) Tourism of Donsol‚ Sorsogon circa 1998 - 2010 Marie Anne L. Mijares 2010 – 36545 Professor Joey Ogatis Communications I Research Paper October 7‚ 2010 Outline Thesis Statement: The whale shark tourism industry of Donsol‚ Sorsogon has greatly changed its economic state and its reputation‚ but the whale shark tourism poses also problems on the fishing industries which is Donsol’s main source of livelihood. I. Donsol‚ which is located in Sorsogon province

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    Sharks have been around for a longer period than dinosaurs‚ nearly for four hundred million years. They come in all sizes and they are very interesting creatures that live in oceans‚ lakes‚ rivers and other waters all over the world. Sharks use a variety of methods to find & hunt their prey. To hunt‚ they sense their prey‚ stalk their prey‚ & catch their prey. The first thing that the shark does before he hunts is to sense their prey. By that i mean that the sharks have to locate their prey

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    How effective are the techniques in the film “Jaws” The film ‘Jaws’ is about a shark that goes about eating some people on the beach. The director of the movie is Steven Spielberg. The film is about a great white shark that goes about terrorising the town Amity Islands. A lot of people go out to kill the shark but the only people who succeed are Quint‚ Brody‚ and Hooper. In the movie Steven Spielberg uses different techniques in his direction of the movie camera angles‚ lighting‚ sound effects

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