That’s right…For one full week, the Discovery Channel brings to you Shark Week!
In fact, it’s the 25th Anniversary of Shark Week…Can you imagine that?
Whether you’re in love with great whites, hammerheads, whale sharks, nurse sharks or any other shark in between, you’ll get an eye- and earful of some of the most amazing underwater cinematography ever created to show you exactly what’s going on with these fierce survivors in the deep, blue ocean.
Living dinosaurs, sharks are some of the oldest species of animals on the planet.
As the top of the food chain in their marine world, sharks rule the oceans [ ... ]
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That’s right…For one full week, the Discovery Channel brings to you Shark Week!
In fact, it’s the 25th Anniversary of Shark Week…Can you imagine that?
Whether you’re in love with great whites, hammerheads, whale sharks, nurse sharks or any other shark in between, you’ll get an eye- and earful of some of the most amazing underwater cinematography ever created to show you exactly what’s going on with these fierce survivors in the deep, blue ocean.
Living dinosaurs, sharks are some of the oldest species of animals on the planet.
As the top of the food chain in their marine world, sharks rule the oceans [ ... ]
Category: Fish, Marine Animals, Sharks
Tags: Discovery Channel, Fish, marine animals, ocean animals, shark week, sharks 2 Comments
(EXOTIC ANIMAL NEWS) – That’s right. Shark Week is Back on the Discovery Channel!
These huge fish and greatest predators of the ocean must be respected.
Even when researching or viewing these huge creatures in cages underwater, as you will see this video below, can still be a dangerous situation.
However, many of them are misunderstood, as you will learn this week. In fact, in the clip above, you will notice, the shark was simply trying to break free from getting trapped atop the shark cage.
Being curious animals, it doesn’t surprise that this 18 foot great white shark wanted to check out [ ... ]
Category: Fish, Marine Animals, Sharks
Tags: Great White shark, shark, shark week, Shark Week on Discovery, shark yourself, sharks 2 Comments
Exotic Animal Newsflash:
The month of March is a month to celebrate and raise awareness of dolphins globally.
They are extremely intelligent creatures with bubbly personalities.
They are mammals, and are closely related to, but are not themselves, whales or porpoises.
There are so many species of dolphin in our oceans that they are too numerous to name here, but there are a few that I will mention that are commonly misnamed as whales, but are actually dolphins in their own right.
These include the “killer whales” (or orca), pilot whales, and the melon-headed whale. Very interesting indeed.
So varied and marvelous they are, there is [ ... ]
Category: Mammals, Marine Animals, News, Whales, Whales & Porpoises
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One of my readers – “Buy clownfish” asked me the question:
How much does that book on clownfish cost? I would like to know more on that fish.
I wanted to address that so that others out there are aware too, not only of the book, but about how much clownfish cost to purchase for your own aquarium.
The book he’s talking about is from my previous post about Clownfish. The book costs $15.16 and is all about them.
Actually, clownfish can range from around $14.99 for extra small ones that are more common…On the left is an example of a small Sebae Clownfish [ ... ]
Exotic Animal Newsflash:
Seven brand new species of deep ocean worms were discovered that actually cast green glowing body parts when they’re disturbed or attacked.
The team was led by Karen Osborn of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.
Thought to be used as a defense mechanism to confuse predators, which are unknown as of yet, the appendages glow green when they’re cast by the worm, and they will actually continue to be “let go” as they’re more and more disturbed.
It’s hypothesized that
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When you read the ingredients on the back of food packages, it’s often we all get “lost”…to say the least.
Well, multiply that by 10 when you’re talking about pet food…pets eat things we don’t…
So, how often do you actually look on the back of your turtle food container and question the ingredients…Not often, I suspect.
Same goes for gerbil food or bird food.
Well, I have information on one ingredient in some fish foods you might want to include in their diet.
If you have fish that aren’t white (and supposed to be white), then Spirulina is a great supplement in some fish [ ... ]
Category: Exotic Pets & Strange Animals, Featured, Fish, Great Animal Products, Marine Animals, Reviews, Unusual Pets
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One of the neatest varieties of shark is the Hammerhead Shark!
Why?
Well, because it’s head actually looks like a hammer with their head flattened and that extends laterally to make that strange shape. The hammerhead’s eyes and nostrils are at the tips of the hammer extensions.
Wow – How neat is that?
The largest hammer on a hammerhead shark is the winghead shark.
These sharks use their heads to sweep for prey and since all sharks have electroreceptory, hammerheads have an advantage because these pores along their “snout” are more extensive than other sharks.
Although they have a “big head”, hammerhead sharks have relatively small [ ... ]
Category: Featured, Fish, Marine Animals, Sharks
Tags: Fish, hammer head shark, hammerhead shark, marine animals, ocean animals, shark week, sharks, winghead shark 3 Comments
Sand sharks aren’t often spoken of – they’re not the Great White Shark, nor an interesting Hammerhead Shark, but they’re so interesting nonetheless!
Why Are Sand Sharks Different?
Sand sharks are different because they’re know to come to the surface for gulps of air.
Why? Because they actually have a rudimentary swim bladder like other fish do, but very unlike other sharks.
Although this is strange, it helps them have exceptional
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Category: Featured, Fish, Marine Animals, Sharks
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Yup, I did that…It all seems a little surreal today as I think back, but I did it.
In fact, if you’re surfing anywhere, you’re likely to be surfing with these heavily teethed fish…
I felt very secure where we were – inside a coral reef by Lancelin Island in Western Australia.
The friends I was with surfing had been coming to this very beach year in and year out from their youth.
I was learning how to boogie-board (sometimes called body boarding) and progressing up to a surfboard.
We never saw anything suspicious – in fact, we never even saw dolphins there.
We surfed at [ ... ]
What do I know about sharks?
Well, I know a little bit about sharks. I’ve swam with them, I’ve seen them, and I’ve surfed with them.
Yeah, I know them a little bit!
I traveled around Australia back in 1995 for a few months backpacking my way through the center of Aussie, hitting the Northern Territory and going West back down the coast all the way back to Perth, Western Australia.
On my journey, I stopped in Exmouth, Western Australia where I had the amazing opportunity to swim with whale sharks out past the reef.
A helicopter would relay the coordinates of the whale sharks [ ... ]
Category: Australian Animals, Endangered & Extinct Animals, Endangered Species, Fish, Marine Animals, Sharks
Tags: Australia, Australian Animals, Exmouth, Exmouth Australia, Fish, shark week, sharks, snorkeling, whale shark diving, whale shark snorkeling, whale shark spotting, whale shark swimming, whale sharks 2 Comments
