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Secret Life of Sharks A Leading Marine Biologist Reveals the Mysteries of Shark Behavior

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ISBN-10: 1416578331

ISBN-13: 9781416578338

Edition: N/A

Authors: A. Peter Klimley

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Marine biologist Pete Klimley swims with the sharks. He was one of the first scientists to free-dive among sharks, and he has spent nearly thirty years studying shark behavior, sometimes swimming in schools of several hundred sharks. From his firsthand observations he has learned that sharks are not the vicious man-eaters that we imagine, but fascinating animals with complex behaviors. Most people who think of sharks at all think immediately of great white sharks. But there are more than four hundred species of shark. Dr. Klimley has studied several species, most notably the great white and the hammerhead. (He describes the great white as the athlete among sharks, and the hammerhead as the…    
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List price: $20.95
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 9/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

A. Peter Klimleyis an internationally known marine biologist. An adjunct associate professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology at the University of California, Davis, Klimley has published articles on sharks inAmerican Scientist, Natural History,and other popular magazines, as well as more than fifty scientific articles. He has appeared in numerous film documentaries worldwide. A coauthor of the leading academic book on great white sharks, Dr. Klimley lives in Petaluma, California.

Shark Fever
Cross-Species Dressing
Shark Sex in the Miami Seaquarium
Diving with Sharks in Southern California
Swimming with Hammerhead Sharks
Solving the Mystery of Hammerhead Schools
Shark Rush Hour at Gorda Seamount
Hammerhead Sharks as Ocean Navigators
In Quest of the White Shark
White Shark Predation at the Farallon Islands
Talking with Their Tails
Baby White Shark Gets Away on National Television
Electronic Monitoring of White Sharks at A�o Nuevo Island
Shark-Eating Humans or Man-Eating Sharks?
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