Friday, May 30, 2008

The tale of the shark


It is an animal which weighs about 3000 pounds and has got no competition when it comes to water world . It none other than the Great whit shark .The body of the shark is designed in in such a way that it can with stand a high pressure inside the sea or the ocean. There are two muscles in the body of the shark that extends from the stomach to the tip of the tail . The muscles end work like the piston of the engine providing the shark a high thrust in the water . The sensors of the shark work so perfectly. Several researchers from the Florida and other universities has researched on the sensors of the shark. When the shark has targeted for its pray it closes it eyes so that it can protect its eyes from damaging. The special feature that the shark has and no other animal has is that it has got a sheath covering the eyes . This sheath works like a photo grey lens protecting it from being exposed to the harmful ultra violet radiation.It can smell it prey from 10KM. But researchers has proved that the shark is not interested in human flesh when compared the marine food . The most interesting fact about the sharks is that it has got the stomach preceds the mouth. At times it inflates the stomach out of the mouth so as to clean the contents if the stomach. The sharks at most are found in Australia, south Africa and the whole of the united states of America. The sharks on an average travel up to 15000 miles with in 9 months. All these features the smelling, The vision, and the body makes it a unique animal.

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