Sharkpedia: A Brief Compendium of Shark Lore 1st Edition

Sharkpedia: A Brief Compendium of Shark Lore 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780691252629, 0691252629

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0691252629
• ISBN-13: 9780691252629
• Author: Daniel Abel

Sharkpedia is an entertaining and enlightening celebration of sharks featuring close to 100 entries, based on the latest knowledge and enriched by original illustrations. Avoiding tired factoids, shark authority Daniel Abel gives new bite to essential information about sharks, including their adaptations as top predators, 450-million-year evolution, behavioral complexity, ecological importance, existential threats, and often sensationalized appearances in popular culture, from Jaws to Shark Week.

Table contents:

1. Adaptation
2. Age and Growth
3. Air Jaws
4. American Elasmobranch Society
5. Art Depicting Sharks
6. Attacks and Bites
7. Batoids
8. Bear Gulch
9. Behavior
10. Bimini Biological Field Station
11. Biodiversity Hotspots
12. Biomedical and Other Uses/Biomimicry
13. Bite Force
14. Bloodhounds of the Ocean
15. Blue Water, White Death
16. Bobbing for Apples
17. Body Shape
18. Bull Shark
19. Bycatch
20. Captivity and Capture Stress
21. Cartilage
22. Catsharks and Dogfish
23. Cephalofoil
24. Chondrichthyan Tree of Life
25. Claspers
26. Coastal Sharks
27. Common and Scientific Names
28. Convergent Evolution
29. Cookiecutter Shark
30. Countershading
31. CSI: Shark
32. Daily Ration
33. Deep-Sea Sharks
34. Dermal Denticles
35. Diet
36. Diversity of Sharks
37. Ecology/Ecological Roles
38. Ecotourism
39. Elasmobranch
40. Elasmotunatron
41. Endangered Sharks
42. Fear of Sharks
43. Feeding Frenzy
44. Finning
45. Fisheries
46. Gnathostomes: The Rise of Jaws
47. Golden Age of Sharks
48. Great Hammerhead
49. Great White Shark
50. Happy Eddie Shyshark
51. Heart Anatomy and Physiology
52. Jaws Phenomenon
53. Jumping Sharks
54. Life History Characteristics/Vulnerabilities
55. Life’s a Drag: How Sharks Swim
56. Living Fossil
57. Megalodon/Megatooth
58. Migrations (Movement Ecology)
59. Most Magnificent Fish in the Sea

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