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...check, for example, some deer populations in the U.S. have skyrocketed. And in just the same way, experts believe, overfishing of sharks off Australia and Tasmania years ago led to an explosion in the octopus population and a subsequent decline of the spiny-lobster fishery. Declining numbers of hammerhead sharks off the Florida panhandle may have allowed stingrays to reach record numbers there. "It's impossible to predict the implications of removing sharks from the food chain, but it could be disastrous," says shark specialist Sonja Fordham of the Center for Marine Conservation in Washington...
...make reasonable but vague assertions like 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...
...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...
...Cuba to Florida in her second attempt at that odyssey last week. Inside a sharkproof cage attached to the good ship Reel Lady, Maroney crawled 112 miles in 24 1/2 hours. In the wee small hours she hallucinated, seeing monkeys in the water. And to distract herself from the hammerhead sharks cruising by, she mentally replayed Seinfeld episodes. Upon arrival in Florida, her tongue swollen from salt water, her skin tattooed with jellyfish stings, she said, "So many times you think, 'I just don't want to keep going.'" Then she passed out cold. Later Maroney announced plans to swim...
...which Universal was expecting to be one of its big summer movies for 1996, writer-director Alan Shapiro was approached by the studio's merchandising department. The executives had a problem: there were only three characters in the film suitable for licensing to stuffed-animal makers--Flipper, Scar the Hammerhead Shark and Pete the Pelican. Toy manufacturers were demanding a fourth to round out the Flipper line. "But the movie's been shot," Shapiro argued. "It's too late to add a fourth character." Nevertheless, Shapiro and the executives screened a rough cut of the film and noticed a montage...