Sharks The Animal Answer Guide
140 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide fishes. Surprisingly (to us), sharks can tell where those squeaks and thumps are coming from ...
Foods and Feeding 141 have another type of touch sense. Sharks can detect minor variations in water movement, often called a “di ...
142 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide chemicals form the basis of many questionably successful shark repellants that sharks detect ...
Foods and Feeding 143 to immobilize it while taking bites. A pointy-nosed shark probably would have slid off the ray’s back, but ...
144 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide If the sawfish does use the technique described above for catching school- ing prey, it is o ...
Foods and Feeding 145 Nearly half of the 33 sharks filmed struck at the bait with their tail, hitting the bait 65% of the time. ...
146 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide tles, dugongs, sea snakes, other sharks, and bony fishes. Despite their repu- tation for fer ...
Foods and Feeding 147 Cookiecutter sharks that feed by gouging round plugs of flesh from larger tunas, whales, dolphins, swordfi ...
148 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide (Journal of Morphology, Sept. 2008, p. 1041). As powerful as this may be, the pressures fall ...
Foods and Feeding 149 pads; Whale Sharks have widely spaced, flattened filtering pads; mantas possess rigid, leaflike, folded pa ...
150 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide denticles on each gill raker. Trapped food is then moved to the throat by tiny beating hairl ...
Foods and Feeding 151 speeds. However, White Sharks are primarily daytime feeders, at least where their major prey consists of d ...
152 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide six weeks, which is plenty of time to find another dead whale. Energy-wise, sharks live in t ...
Foods and Feeding 153 strength of the bite is greater in durophages than in feeders on softer- bodied prey. Horn Sharks and Spot ...
154 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide acute sense of smell, would find it, not to mention a host of scavenging crabs, bristle star ...
Foods and Feeding 155 surround it, and progressively tighten the circle. Escape attempts by the seal are thwarted by individual ...
156 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide This tail whip-cracking has been reported as a defensive behavior by the same shark in South ...
157 Chapter 8 Sharks and Humans Do sharks make good pets? This question actually has two parts: (1) Can sharks be kept in home a ...
158 Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide ■ Bamboo Sharks ($100): “Temperatures between 72 and 78 degrees Fahr- enheit, pH of 8.1 or 8 ...
Sharks and Humans 159 since 2007, and the organization may no longer exist, although its Ecolist can still be found. Regardless, ...
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