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Predatory Nature

The Tackle Box

The Book of Sharks

by Richard Ellis

Knopf, reprint

22 April 1989, 224 pages, $5.00

[29 June 2007]

by Chris Justice

Sharks, the legendary "terrors of the deep", are at the complete mercy of the fiercest predator of all. Let's show some mercy.

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