Sharks: The True Elegance
Sharks; the second you hear ‘sharks’ all you think about is its killing of humans, and its viciousness. In this article you will be looking at its beauty.
Sharks have been on Earth for more than 64 million years and counting; that’s right, from the time of the dinosaurs. They have been one of the most deadly predators of the deep; they rule the sea. Since sharks have lived on Earth much longer than humans have, why are we killing them? They have the right to kill us, because humanity kills around 38 million sharks a year for their fins. And they only kill around 20 or less annually.
It is extremely disturbing for me to even see an image of a shark thrown away into the sea without its fins. Let me tell you why. Sharks never stop swimming, and they need their fins to swim. While they are swimming they are breathing through their gills as well. Without their fins they are suffering a slow and painful death. And humans just cut all their fins and throw them back to sea.
Image LinkThe fins’ main purpose is to make a Chinese delicacy (obtained from ‘genocide’). Many food critics respond and saying that they taste like a normal soup, and why do people still kill sharks? Maybe it’s the only way for some to earn money. Or is it just for the money the many restaurants get? I don’t know the true answer to this.
The most common dangerous sharks are:
- The Great White Shark: The world’s most powerful predatory fish, weighing up to 2240 kilograms, and reaching length up to 6 meters long. Found most common seas and oceans.
- Tiger Shark: Reaching up to 4.25 meters long and weighing up to 900 kilograms. It is found in tropical and temperate climates of the earth.
- The Bull Shark: Found commonly around the world in warm and shallow waters. Most probably dangerous shark to humans. Bull sharks can travel up rivers and can tolerate fresh water.
Maybe you have thought wrong of sharks. Sharks are very solitary and territorial predators. They are able to smell blood from about 2 blocks away. Sharks lose hundreds of teeth a week and grow hundreds back! 
Shark bites can be very gory and rips a lot of flesh. Once it has its teeth in its prey’s flesh, it would shake from side to side and the spikes on the sides of the teeth rip even more flesh. The funny thing is that they have the same biting strength as humans!
Most sharks hunt fish, seals and porpoises and sometimes when they are really famished, they would sometimes eat others sharks’ meals, and sometimes they bite other sharks; this is called a feeding frenzy.
Now let’s look at the special species of sharks.
- The Carpet Shark: The Carpet Shark lies still at the ocean bed. Its features are spots and fringes around its snout. The carpet shark uses their skin as a camouflage, and when a fish swims by, chomp goes the shark.
- Hammerhead Shark: A hammerhead shark as the name explains it is in a shape of a hammer. And amazingly the eyes are at the ends of the hammer. No one is sure why, but it sure is special!
- Dwarf Shark: One of the smallest sharks and only about six inches long. A mystery of the sharks and very rare to be found. Lives in caves and reefs.
- The Whale Shark: The world’s largest living fish and feeds on little schools of fish. Can grow up to 16 meters long.
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5 Responses to “Sharks: The True Elegance”
On August 20, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Why don’t they use the rest of the shark’s meat as well, instead of wasting it?
On August 20, 2009 at 3:59 pm
We humans have a bad habit of wiping other life forms off the face of the earth. We may even do it to ourselves one day.
On August 21, 2009 at 3:35 am
Guy, yes we don’;t realize that but in time we will be exterminators of one of the world’s greatest creatures.
On August 21, 2009 at 3:39 am
Agriculi, I don;t know the reason why, but maybe they don;t plan on making a shark meat soup. It’s just that people need to stop hunting exotic animals.
On August 26, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Guy Hogan,humans are wiping their own kind nowadays
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