The True Nature of Sharks
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (562 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072WSKK3M |
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| Number of Pages | : | 366 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amazon Customer said Shark lover's delight. Ila has written a moving account of her deep love and friendship with the sharks she came to regard as friends. (Full disclosure: I have been in the water with Ila, and can attest to her sharp eyes and observational skills--she could see creatures that I missed!) To be with sharks in the water is, for some of us, the icing on the cake of scuba diving. To get to know individual sharks over a period of time is something a shark lover can only dream of, so strap on your virtual mask and fins, a. An exceptional book about sharks Ila France-Porcher is not a trained shark scientist. Yet, she is arguably the most knowledgeable and committed shark researcher outside the confines of today's international academia.Ila has spent many years solitarily observing sharks in their habitat. That way she has been able to study the behavior of these highly complex and intelligent animals "naturally", and by publishing her findings she was able to make a firmly established name for herself in the cognitive ethology of sharks. No ac. An Epic Adventure That Every Reader Will Experience. Sharkman Many are the researchers and scientists that observe and study sharks. Most of them observe sharks in captivity, as in the cases of aquariums, whilst others in the wild from boats or other outposts along the coastline. Very very few researchers observe these creatures from inside their own homeunderwater!! Sure, there are a few that go for a dive once in awhile, or those that interact with sharks on their daily shark feeding tours, but no one has spent days on end underwater with these magni
The True Nature of Sharks is a full scale exploration of wild shark behavior. Kamil Emeritus Professor of Biology and Psychology,University of Nebraska. Unlike many other animals, including humans, they do not fight!If you love discovering new, intelligent wildlife behavior, you will love this beautifully written and illustrated book, which presents a wealth of unexpected insights and tantalizing implications as it integrates field observations with facts from other branches of science. They enjoy socializing, communicate through posturing and gestures, and are capable of influencing each other. For they are not the dangerously stupid automatons that popular media will have us believe. Following the precepts of cognitive ethology, she kept track of about six hundred reef sharks, and could recognize more than three hundred on sight. Neither are they monsters, nor the cold and senseless creatures described by fisheries science.They are ordinary animals, thinking about the events in their lives and responding intelligently.By their actions, sharks reveal that they are self-aware, form companionships, make swift d