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  • Population Dynamics Of The Mako Shark
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    The shortfin mako shark is the fastest fish in the world. It is capable of attaining speeds of up to 60 mph. It's dark red iron-rich muscles on the side of the shark's body and especially on the tail enable the shark to swim at these speeds. The speed of the mako affects its physical characteristics, its eating habits, and its predators. The average size of the shortfin mako shark is from 10 to 12 feet and the largest size ever recorded was 18 feet. This fish weighs about 1,000 pounds. Its large...
  • Occasional Basking Shark
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    Basking shark Cetorhinus maximus (Gunner us) 1765 Bone Shark Bigelow and Schroeder, 1948, p. 147. In light of recent reports of basking sharks along the New England Coast we have assembled this page to provide information concerning this second largest of all sharks. This species is not known to be aggressive or dangerous but like any large animal should be treated with respect. The information below is taken from Bigelow and Schroeder, Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. The basking shark resembles th...
  • View From The Shark's Point Of View
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    Steven Spielberg, the creator of Jaws, uses many different techniques to draw in the suspense of viewers and to capture their imagination. These techniques include special effects - to create tension, different camera angles - to show facial expressions and group shots. The classic Jaws music, known by millions of people, also helps build up tension, to let us know when the shark is approaching. He uses colours, so that we can associate signs and symbols to forthcoming events, e.g. the colour re...
  • Little The Shark
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    So the police chief famously informs the shark hunter, right after the first brief appearance of the man-eater in "Jaws". It's not simply a splendid line of dialogue, it's an example of Steven Spielberg's strategy all through the film, where the shark is more talked about than seen, and seen more in terms of its actions than in the flesh. There is a story that when producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown first approached Spielberg with an offer to direct the film of Peter Benchley's best seller...
  • Speculations About The Megalodon Shark
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    The Megalodon Kingdom-animalia Phylum-chordata Subphylum-vertebrata Class-Chondrichthyes Subclass-Elasmobranch ii (sharks and rays) Order-Lamniformes Family-Lamnidae Genus-Carcharodon Species-megalodon Intro. I was in front of the TV watching shark week on the discovery channel when they started to talk about this shark that was three times bigger then a great white shark and ate whales for food. I sat there for an hour intrigued by the thought of one of those living today. So when you gave out ...
  • Main Character Of White Shark
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    This book is about a man shark that was created during World War two. The man shark was an experiment by the Russians for war. The Russians were transporting it in a u-boat the u-boat was shot and sank by enemy airplanes. The U boat plunged down to the sea floor thousands of feet below sea level. In 1996 two Submersibles went down on a documentary for national geographic. They discovered a brass box that looked like a coffin but It was too ling to be a coffin the rectangular shaped box was about...
  • Red Wood And Killer Whale
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    This following report will show you the classifications and information of the Jaguar, Tiger Shark, Earth Worm, Red Wood, and Killer Whale. CategoryJaguarTiger Shark Earth Worm Red Wood Killer Whale. Kingdom-AnimaliaAnimaliaAnimalia Plantae Animalia. Phylum-ChordataChordataAnnelidaEmbryophytaChordataClass-MammaliaChondrichthyesOligochaetaConiferopsidaMammalia. Order-CarnivoraCarcharhiniformesHaplotaxidaConiferalesCetaceaFamily-FelidaeCarcharhinidaeMegasclolecidaecupressaceaeDelphinidae. Genus-Pa...
  • End The Shark
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    In accordance with the fundamental scheme format of science fiction novels, Steve Alten, the author of "Meg", has provided a classic, typical conclusion to his novel. In brief, condensing 348 pages into a mere two sentences, "Meg" is about a gigantic species of shark believed to have died out millions of years ago. The whole novel revolves around a hunt for this shark, and it would be almost infantile to mention that in the end the shark is killed by a brave, heroic scientist who has been tracki...
  • Shark Aspect And The Reader
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    In Pratt's "The Shark", the use of the metaphor is not only predominant, but very obvious as well. Throughout the text he uses this device along with other elements to create diverse binary situations, which became one after further analysis. This poem is unique due to the fact that it blatantly describes the metaphorical meaning in such a way that it could be taken either way by the reader if read literally. The title of this piece is not only a persuasion of the reader's mindset, but a clue to...
  • T W Tw R Tw Er Wer
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    In recent years a a group of scientist in alaska have concluded studies that nurse sharks will indeed live and reproduce in a olympic size swimming pool. The scientist began the experiment as a prank aginst one of thier colleges. The chlorine in the water triggered a growth hormone and caused the sharks to grow to be enormous. They were then removed and transported to a bigger pool where they have recently reproduced. The scientist know are begining the experiment on sport fish. what a day you w...

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