BOOK REVIEW
The Great Shark Hunt: Excerpts from The Shark Almanac and Sharks, 2nd ed.
Dr. George Parker of Harvard once demonstrated that sharks homed in on a scent by veering to the right if the right nostril detected a stronger scent and vice versa. He plugged the left nostril and the shark swam clockwise . . . [It] swam counterclockwise when the right nostril was plugged.
The Shark Almanac
Thomas B. Allen
The Lyons Press, $35.
It has been often said that we know more about outer space than the oceans. The bizarre filter-feeding megamouth shark Megachasma pelagios, discovered in 1982, is known from only 10 specimens but may be wideranging, though rare, in the midwater zone of the ocean.
Sharks, 2nd ed.
John D. Stevens, ed.
Checkmark Books/Facts on File, $39.95
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