... which makes them efficient predators in cool water (Gorman 15). The back of the shark is a dull gray color and the underside is colored white. The tail is crescent shaped. There are five gill slits on great white sharks. Studying a live great white shark up close and in detail is, for obvious reasons ... to propel it forward, careful adjustment of the pectoral, side, and dorsal, top, fins keep the shark level and on course, much as the wings and tail of an airplane do. Great whites have a pair of nostrils near the tip of their snout. Since "breathing" takes place in the gills, the nostri...

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... , triangular teeth. This species is extremely rare." (Cousteau 236). All sharks are carnivorous, but some will eat anything. The biggest sharks eat the smallest organisms. These large sharks are the whale shark and the basking shark. They feed off plankton in the seawater. The remaining 380 known species of sharks, most of which evolved over 160 million years ago, eat much ... cartilage, besides their backbone, which is also reinforced with mineral deposits. This enables the shark to turn quickly and smoothly, and allows the shark to touch its head, to its tail if necessary." (Harrigan 6...

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... Merry Wives Falstaff is a devious letch who is attempting to seduce two loyally married women of Windsor to no avail. They insult him in asking "What tempest, I trow, threw this whale, with so many tuns of oil in his belly, ashore at Windsor?- (Act II.1 lines 58-60). A contrast example is when Falstaff is hiding from Mrs. Ford's husband in the ... Caliban's form or merely his mannerisms. At one point, the jester, Trinculo, says "he were a brave monster indeed, if [his eyes] were set in his tail- (Act III.2 lines 10-11) implying that Caliban had a tail. Many people wonder if Shakespeare ...

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... management plan for Minke whaling. It records 100 data points including size, weight, sex, stomach contents, and age. To discover stomach contents the research team insists they must remove the whale's stomachs, though alternative non-lethal means of investigation have been suggested, such as are used for elephants. The most reliable way to determine ... ) Normile suggests that the true motives of the research project may be to keep the whaling industry alive. Every year the sale of whale meat generates nearly 36 million dollars in Japan. While it would not devastate the Sperm Whale popu...

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... . It was my instinct to do this, and I realized it was not plankton that I had just eaten. It was a meat substance, like debris from a dead fish or whale. I looked above, and saw a huge whale falling. I could not move very quickly but I had to or I would have been killed. I moved out of the way as the body fell, and realized that all my ... was increasing, and I was ready to go back home to my friends and family. Finally I returned home with no other dangerous encounters. All of my friends were feeding on the whale carcass, and I decided to just go back to my home without joining the fun...

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... man, for you, O Lord, have done as you pleased.""(Jon. 1:14) The men then threw Jonah overboard. Minutes later, God sent provided a big whale to shallow Jonah. Jonah was inside the whale for 3 days and 3 nights. From inside the Whale, Jonah prayed to god for forgiveness even though he didn't obey him. Jonah told god that if he got a second chance he"d go ... ...

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... the shark's body(Shark-info.com) Sharks also have a unique sense of direction. Unlike fish sharks use their back tail as a propeller it swings its tail back and forth to propel through the water. The tail also helps direct its body buy moving the tail up and down the shark will move up and down. Two others that help with the direction are the ... ...

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... boat. It was also at this point in my fight against this fish, that I learned that I had an enormous Northern Pike on my line. And when I saw how big the tail and the head of this fish was I instantly knew it was the biggest fish I had ever caught. My dad grabbed the net, and tried to get the fish into the ... net, tail first. That did not work, the fish was just too big, and it jumped right out of the net. My dad tried a second time to get him into the net ... by the tail, but that was just not working. The only other option we had was to try and net the big northern pike head first. ...

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... plants that serve as food for many of the ocean creatures from the smallest of fish to large whales. The ocean can also support very large life forms. The blue whale is the biggest animal on earth. It can be over 100 feet (30 meters) long. Animals in the deep sea also live in a tough environment. One creature, the anglerfish, deals ... , those in the North Atlantic and those in the Southern Hemisphere. Humpbacks embark on long seasonal migrations, traveling more than 3,100 miles (5,000 km) with little to no rest. A humpback whale's diet is made up of krill (small shrimp-like organisms), ...

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... . The hollow birds make them lighter and more capable of flying efficiently. Amphibians are aquatic for the first part of their life and then terrestrial. First they move with their tail and then with arms and legs. Compared to amphibians, reptiles have longer stronger limbs whose movements are controlled. The legs are well adapted to burrowing, swimming, climbing, and walking. These ... move up and down and they also can stand upright. Running mammals like cheetahs can travel at high speeds. Climbing mammals, like monkeys, have hands and feet and some have a tail used for grasping. Bats...

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... as the frightened herring dart out of the way of their predators" jaws. Nature also has another way of placing worry in the minds of the sailors. A large mammal, possibly a whale, is seen swimming very close to the ship. One move by this object could either injure the ship or rip the net. Either could prove to be detrimental to the ... ...

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... , white death and many other names. Its scientific name is carcharodos carcharias, and that scientific name is also used for many other sharks like the hammer head shark and the whale shark. The great white is known for its ferocity in the sea, it can literally kill anything that is in the water. The great white has three different colors; on ... ...

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... , they come in all different colors, all species look different and are unique in their own different way.2 Sharks can range in size from nearly 5 inches, to a 45-foot long whale shark. All sharks use their gills to breathe through by extracting oxygen from seawater. Most sharks have a streamed line bodies and fines to help them glide through the water. They ... ...

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... might want to buy your very own fish and not know how to properly take care of it. I have personal experience of taking care of one, because I own a male Crown Tail Beta named Chester Frank Paul. I have also visited multiple websites about fish caretaking, such as how to feed them, how often and how to change their water, and how to ... ...

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... have the ability to change color to match the sea floor. Clearnose Skate- this skate is completely harmless, and it does not posses venomous spines at the base of its tail. They have clear panels on either side of its snout. The skates egg case looks like a mermaids purse. Horseshoe Crab- it is not a true crab, but is actually closely related ... ...

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... , since they have been feeding all night and preparing to bed down. All during the day large bullfrogs will announce their arrival in search for a mate. The ever-present red tail hawk is always on the prowl for any field mice or rabbits, which come to the waters edge. On a rare of occasions one will spot a opossum or armadillo that is ... ...

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... boat and went right into his house and fell asleep. Everyone was so amazed by the fish he caught even though nothing was left of it, but the head and tail. The boy told the old man to rest and get better and he would fish with him again. At first glance the book seems to simply be a story about an ... ...

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... resistant to the hardest of an enemy's teeth, along with the secretion of a special enzyme that causes pain and damage along with a bitter taste to avoid being eaten. It's powerful tail has been lengthened to provide offensive coverage in a 360 degree area. Along with the sharp, barbed spines and deadly poisonous glands, the stingray is now a formidable opponent. With the decrease ... ...

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... a dark spot in the middle of the river that resembles one, and the more I look at it the more it looks like a fish. That skinny part on the end is a tail, the jagged part on the top is a fin and so on. But after approaching the "fish" I gradually come to realize that it's simply a rock. In this case my mind was ... ...

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... honor Santiago accrues comes not from his battle itself but from his pride and determination to fight. Unfortunately, the opponents devour the marlin's precious meat, leaving only skeleton, head, and tail. Santiago blames himself for going "out too far," but yet, he wouldn't give up because Santiago believes that "man is not made for defeat a man can be destroyed but not ... ...

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... fish. Puffins hold the fish in their bills until they return to the nest to feed the puffin chicks. Sometimes a parent puffin will carry a dozen fish carefully arranged head-to-tail in their bills! How do they do that? No one knows, because no one has watched puffins long enough under water. Puffins breed in holes they dig into the ground ... ...

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... horse. Its wing seems to be damaged. The dove echoes the upward scream of the mother on the left and the burning woman on the right. Its head, wings and tail share the color of the dark gray background. It seems to be disappearing. One part of its oddly shaped body is painted white while the other is painted in black ... ...

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