...&& i cannot get enough.
Shark week is not only about the gory stories. it also is very very informative. i see shark week as a chance to shed light on the difficulties faced by sharks in the wild. for instance, did you know that more than 100 million sharks are killed around the world each year by commercial fishing. also that sharks alongside crocodiles are the world's oldest living animals believed to be older than dinosaurs? they've been on this planet for billions of years.
Not only that but let's face it.. sharks are awesome. I mean, how many other people know that sharks have five 15 rows of teeth in each jaw? Or that a lot of weird things have been found inside sharks, such as a nail, a bottle of wine, a treasure chest, coats, a suit of armor, a drum and a torpedo. Oh and a question: What is more dangerous to people - a shark or a wasp/bee? Answer: wasp/bee!! Every year, 100 people die from wasp or bee stings, yet hundreds of millions of people go swimming, and sharks kill only about six people worldwide. Only about 25 sharks have been known to actually attack people. Every year, people kill thousands of sharks. They are killed for food, oil, skins and sport.
Here are some other things i learned from shark week 2013...
- Sharks do not have bones.
- it's a shark-eat-shark world ...parents sometimes eat their embroyos and even the babies, once they develop teeth they eat their brothers and sisters who are not yet developed. . yuck!! it's called intrauterine cannibalism. i'll never forget. haha
- Most sharks have good eyesight.
- Sharks have special electroreceptor organs.
- the way sharks breathe is by ram ventilation, a process that forces water into their mouths and then processes it as they swim forward.
- Shark skin feels similar to sandpaper.
- Sharks can go into a trance
- Sharks have been around a very long time.
- Scientists age sharks by counting the rings on their vertebrae.
- Blue sharks are really blue.
- Every once in a while, a female shark can reproduce without any contact from a male, an act known as parthenogenesis. Scientists have only documented a couple of cases of parthenogenesis, but some suspect that just about any female shark can get pregnant on her own in the right circumstances.
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About Shark Week: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_Week
