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Shark /

Discover the mighty fish that have ruled the oceans since prehistoric times. Did you know that sharks first appeared in the oceans 200 million years before the dinosaurs, and that they have an electrical sixth sense that helps them locate their prey? How dangerous is a great white shark? Can a whale...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: MacQuitty, Miranda (Author)
Published: DK,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2022.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: Revised edition.
Series: Eyewitness
Subjects:
Sharks > Juvenile literature.
Sharks.
Sharks > Behavior.
Marine animals.
Requins > Ouvrages pour la jeunesse.
Instructional and educational works.
Informational works.
Illustrated works.
Juvenile works.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
Documents d'information.
Summary: Discover the mighty fish that have ruled the oceans since prehistoric times. Did you know that sharks first appeared in the oceans 200 million years before the dinosaurs, and that they have an electrical sixth sense that helps them locate their prey? How dangerous is a great white shark? Can a whale shark really grow as big as a city bus? If you find yourself seeking the answers to these questions, then this may be the book for you! Discover where they live, why they are hunted, and what can be done to protect them. The book even takes you inside a shark to learn how it eats and breathes. It explains, too, how they can swim so fast and how different tail shapes affect the way each species moves. You'll see for yourself how a lemon shark is born, and which looks stranger, the hammerhead or the horn shark. Learn, too, about their relatives, the manta rays and skates.
Item Description: First published: 1992.
Includes index.
Carrier Form: 72 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.
Audience: Pre-adolescent.
ISBN: 9780241553039
0241553032
Index Number: QL638
CLC: Q959.41-49
Call Number: Q959.41-49/M173-1
Contents: What is a shark? -- Close relatives -- Inside a shark -- First sharks -- Amazing grace -- Making sense -- Reproduction -- Live young -- Teeth and diet -- Friend or foe? -- Great white shark -- Gentle giants -- Basking beauties -- Angel sharks -- Horn sharks -- Hammerheads -- Weird and wonderful -- Shark artifacts -- Shark attack -- Sharks at bay -- Filming sharks -- Studying sharks -- Tagging sharks -- Overkill -- Use and abuse -- Save the shark! -- Did you know?

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