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Diversity SHARK LONG AND FLEXIBLE 40-41 HABITAT, TASTES, AND PREFERENCES 50-51
To locate its prey, the shark
uses several of its senses-smell ELEGANT CONTOURS 42-43 DANGER IN THE WATER 52-53
and hearing over long distances DEADLY WEAPON 44-45 KINGS OF DARKNESS 54-55
and sight at short range.
TIME TO EAT 46-47 SEA SNAKES 56-57
THE JOURNEY HOME 48-49 OUT OF THE WATER 58-59
he ocean depths are inhabited world. The most feared fish is the great and trout species, which can travel and it involves many dangers. It requires
by many types of fish. Some are white shark, a true underwater predatory thousands of miles from their ocean so much energy that, after laying their
harmless, but others, such as machine—though it seldom attacks home to lay their eggs in the rivers or eggs, many females die.
the scorpion fish, are among the humans. In this chapter we will also tell lakes where they were hatched. The
T most poisonous creatures in the you about the odyssey of many salmon journey lasts from two to three months,
