It’s a beautiful day in the summer, the sun is shining in all its glory and the birds are singing. And it seems as if everyone has one thing in mind, to spend the day at the local beach and have a good time while cooling down from the heat. Families carry picnic baskets while kids run around playing fetch with the dog. This seems to be a perfect day; in their mind nothing can go wrong. The only thing in their mind at the moment is to have fun. But they are unaware of the danger that waits in the seemingly calm waters. Suddenly a large dark figure appears in the water. Then without a single warning it violently snatched a nearby swimmer. The water that was a beautiful turquoise color is now a dark red from the victim’s blood. The swimmer desperately tries to get free but it’s too late,
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This once tranquil region is now a place of nightmares. Then one day a brave group of heroes get together to hunt down the lethal shark putting an end to the nightmare. Does the scene seem familiar? Hollywood has portrayed this scene many times in its movies. They paint them as savage killing machines, bloodthirsty animals that are addicted to killing humans and will do anything to satiate its appetite. But is this portrayal true? Are sharks really like we just mention? Or is this only something we imagine? To answer this question first we have to learn some facts about sharks, here are a few.
What is the first thing that pops into your mind when someone pronounces the word shark? Probably the first thing that you think about is the image of a Great White Shark, but did you know that sharks come in many shapes and sizes? The Ocean makes around seventy percent of planet Earth and about twenty thousand species of fishes call it their home. Out all the species of fishes found in the world’s Oceans nearly four hundred of them are sharks (Census Of Marine Life, 2003; World Wild Life, n.d.). Even do sharks come in many forms they all have something in common, they are
This once tranquil region is now a place of nightmares. Then one day a brave group of heroes get together to hunt down the lethal shark putting an end to the nightmare. Does the scene seem familiar? Hollywood has portrayed this scene many times in its movies. They paint them as savage killing machines, bloodthirsty animals that are addicted to killing humans and will do anything to satiate its appetite. But is this portrayal true? Are sharks really like we just mention? Or is this only something we imagine? To answer this question first we have to learn some facts about sharks, here are a few.
What is the first thing that pops into your mind when someone pronounces the word shark? Probably the first thing that you think about is the image of a Great White Shark, but did you know that sharks come in many shapes and sizes? The Ocean makes around seventy percent of planet Earth and about twenty thousand species of fishes call it their home. Out all the species of fishes found in the world’s Oceans nearly four hundred of them are sharks (Census Of Marine Life, 2003; World Wild Life, n.d.). Even do sharks come in many forms they all have something in common, they are