Sharks The Animal Answer Guide
40 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide counters. Male Round Stingrays (Urolophus halleri) find females buried in the sand by detecti ...
Form and Function of Sharks 41 It has been speculated that such divers bumped into a torpedo ray, received a strong shock, becam ...
42 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide the ridges and flat-topped pedestal, decrease turbulence around the body and thus serve as st ...
Form and Function of Sharks 43 water. Chimaeras also swim actively most of the time and breathe in this manner. Sharks that lie ...
44 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide forward. One possible exception is the Sand Tiger shark, which is known to gulp air at the su ...
Form and Function of Sharks 45 the pull of the tail across the midline, increasing the power output at the beginning of each pro ...
46 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide hicles, or AUVs. The mantas are still better, able to turn around quickly in about half a bod ...
Form and Function of Sharks 47 How do a sharkâs fins function during swimming? While pectoral fins are providing lift and some t ...
48 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide air, a response that presumably prevents their eyes from drying. Epaulette Sharks, a shark th ...
Form and Function of Sharks 49 the hammer would have to account for this variation while ignoring other variations in the shape ...
50 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide come from the lag in time when odors strike the right versus the left nos- tril. Smooth Dogfi ...
Form and Function of Sharks 51 from the mother tail-first. However, an expanded rostral cartilage would easily hang up in the mo ...
52 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide whereas our brains account for about 1.9% of our body weight. This gives us about 40 times mo ...
53 Why are so many sharks dark on top and light on the bottom? Most animals that live up in the water have dark tops and light b ...
54 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide by their predators or prey from the side, and countershading works equally well then. When se ...
Shark Colors 55 may or may not be countershaded. Regardless, their backs, instead of being a solid dark color, are a mottled gra ...
56 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide each other apart, a useful feature during mating. These seemingly minor patches of color are ...
Shark Colors 57 that live at intermediate depths and that move up and down day and night have dark backs while their lower surfa ...
58 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide but a few benthic (bottom-dwelling) families could be considered excep- tions. Heterodontifor ...
Shark Colors 59 goatfishes, and sweetlips, but how this color helps these fishes remains a matter of debate. Perhaps strangest o ...
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