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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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    Mike Shot Sharks And Saved Them “We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be‚ for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it’s theirs.” - Peter Benchley (Author‚ best known for his novel ’Jaws’) It is interesting that Benchley should say that because it is perhaps “Jaws” (1975)‚ more than any other work of art‚ that is responsible for the unreasonable and unjustified fear that humans have of sharks. The premise of his story though is based upon a true incident

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    Cookie Cutter Shark Facts

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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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    Basking Shark : commentary By : Maaria Chehab Basking shark by Norman MacCaig is a free verse poem‚ that might have been written to question the ‘evil’ natures of humans‚ using sharks metaphorical renaissance for the idea. The narrator introduces this un-intuitive question in line 13‚ quite bluntly by saying “ So who is the monster? The thought made me grow pale….” MacCaig uses figurative language‚ syntax‚ and diction to create this artwork. The poem starts off in a body of water‚ with the narrator

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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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    there are a lot of types of sharks in different shapes and sizes. But maybe you are wondering what they have in common or similar features of sharks. well‚ am going to tell you about the common features and characteristics of sharks. First I and going to tell about their appearance‚ or how they look. All sharks are made up of cartilage. A tough rubbery type of skin. Their skin being made of cartilage makes it easy for them to turn and menuver there boodies. Also if they get bitten it is easier for

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    Shark Finning Should Be Banned Shark finning is a cruel act which should be banned worldwide. Sharks are the top apex predator of our planet’s oceans‚ and as an apex predator they control the balance of all marine life by harvesting the sick‚ weak and dying creatures in its environment. Picture a fishing boat out at sea. The fishermen are lowering miles and miles of cable lined with thousands of baited hooks. These cables drift on the ocean currents before being slowly hauled back into the fishing

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