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...Fordham's more rigorous, for example, marine biologist Chris Lowe, a colleague of Meyer's at the University of Hawaii, has developed an ingenious way to measure the role of one shark, the hammerhead, in a well-defined environment. Every year thousands of hammerhead pups are born in Kaneohe Bay, on the east shore of Oahu. (About 40% of shark species lay eggs; the rest bear live young, and some of these carry their young just as mammals do, with an umbilical cord connecting the fetus to the uterus.) For the next 12 months or so, the baby hammerheads...
...happens, the university's shark-research lab is located on Coconut Island, right in the middle of the bay, so Lowe can study them easily. In order to understand how much impact a hammerhead has on the bay ecosystem, Lowe is trying to learn how much energy it expends and how much food that takes. He has designed a miniature sensor that attaches to the baby shark's back and registers every beat of the tail as the shark swims along. By feeding the babies a precise amount of fish, then putting them in a tank with constantly flowing water...
...second part of the experiment, Lowe puts a sensor-equipped shark into the open bay and follows it as it darts back and forth. After two days of nonstop tracking, he and his exhausted crew have a precise record of where the baby has gone and, by counting its tail beats, how much energy it has used. "We still have a lot of data to gather," he says, "but once we really understand what role the hammerhead pups play here, we can use that to begin understanding how adults fit into the ecosystem of the open ocean...
...white. This huge fish, which can exceed 20 ft. in length and 2 tons in weight, is relatively rare among sharks but is responsible for more recorded attacks than any other species. Most of those have occurred off California, in the so-called Red Triangle, which extends from Monterey Bay to San Francisco to the Farallon Islands, 30 miles offshore...
...body parts had not all been collected from the victims of the latest massacre of innocents in Jerusalem when the words of condolence came filtering in from the outside world. They were not just words of condolence, however. They were mixed with admonition. From Turtle Bay to Downing Street, the general tenor was, We are all terribly sorry, but you Israelis must continue peace talks. Indeed, the more quickly you hasten back to the negotiating table the better...