Super Shark by Derek Harvey Airs Greenland Sharks Without Arctic Thaw

Summary: Super Shark Encyclopedia and Other Creatures of the Deep, for Dorling Kindersley June 2015, by Derek Harvey airs Greenland sharks without Arctic thaw.

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Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus), unrestrained and wild, with copepod parasite (Ommatokoita elongata) attached to right eye, swims over field of plumose or frilled anemones (Metridium senile) in St. Lawrence River estuary, Quebec; image of Greenland sleeper shark, "not hooked and tail-roped as in most or all photos from the Arctic"; Greenland shark 67), by Dallas, Texas-born marine wildlife photographer Doug Perrine/SeaPics.com: Sharks4Kids, via Facebook June 28, 2019

Super Shark Encyclopedia and Other Creatures of the Deep, for Dorling Kindersley June 2015, by Derek Harvey airs Greenland sharks without Arctic thaw even as Greenland thaw announces air-, land-, water-warmed temperatures.

Author Harvey backs to the bare basics even as he begins his brief biography of Greenland sharks by broaching beating faster-behaving prey and bettering water-body quality. He commences by commenting on how slowly Greenland sharks circulate even as such constraint perhaps correlates with careful, cautious, cryptic conduct that captures less conscious prey. Author Harvey describes Greenland sharks whose stomach contents display faster-moving prey even as Greenland sharks deliberately perhaps delivered mortal wounds to distracted, resting, sleeping, tired prey.

Greenland sharks expect 7 seconds to effectuate exercising their tail fins from one side to the other even as each and every effort entails slow steadiness.

Greenland-shark and seal-typical swimming speeds respectively figure at 0.75 to 1.5 miles (1.25 to 2.5 kilometers) per hour and at 1.85 miles (3 kilometers) per hour.

And yet Greenland sharks gauge how to grab gainful, greater-sized prey even as they gnaw on crabs (infraorder Brachyura), jellyfish (subphylum Medusozoa) and squid (superorder Decapodiformes). They help themselves to such prey as fish (subphylum Vertebrata), other Greenland sharks and other shark species (subclass Elasmobranchii), seals (parvorder Pinnipedia), small dolphins (clade Odontoceti). They institute if not initiate and institutionalize marine-air, marine-coast and marine-water improvement even as they ingest carrion that otherwise infects marine-world air, animals, plants and waters.

Carrion such as dead reindeer join the live-kill shallow-water prey of Greenland sharks in Super Shark Encyclopedia and Other Creatures of the Deep by Derek Harvey.

Author Harvey kneads no Arctic thaw into his Greenland-shark pages 154-155 even as Arctic thaw perhaps never kineticizes Greenland sharks beyond one-half speedy-seal species' cruising speeds.

Greenland sharks like water temperatures at 36 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) even as they locate to colder depths warmer months, prey-livened shallow waters colder months. Arctic-Ocean and North-Atlantic Ocean waters mobilize slow aging, slow growing and slow moving even as Greenland sharks manifest 100-plus-year life expectancies and .05-inch (1-centimeter) annual growth. They net 100 times less annual growth than such fast-growing, fast-moving species as tropical sharks even as tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) niche 35-inch (90-centimeter) annual-growth maximums.

Super Shark Encyclopedia and Other Creatures of the Deep by Derek Harvey observes Greenland sharks in cold-month cold-coastal waters and in year-round ice-cold, night-like ocean-depth darkness.

Author Harvey presents Greenland sharks as the biggest slow-propelling ocean fish even as he profiles them as the slowest most ponderous ocean fish in the world.

Greenland sharks queue body weights of 1,700 pounds (775 kilograms) even as their maturity quantifies body lengths of 8.25 to 24 feet (2.5 to 7.3 meters). Author Harvey perhaps recognizes Greeenland sharks for their resourcefulness even as they realize relocating between habitats removed from one another and requiring rapid reflecting and responding. He suggests nothing about shelters no longer stable in their temperature ranges even as he shows Greenland sharks with cold temperature-structured speeds, sizes, shapes and senescence.

Super Shark Encyclopedia and Other Creatures of the Deep by Derek Harvey transmits nothing treating Arctic thaw even as it perhaps threatens ocean-depth traveling Greenland sharks.

Contents of a Greenland shark's stomach have included (left to right) baby whale's tail and skull, polar bear's bones and skin and (in vacuum seal on floor, right) an orca's fin; Hákarlasafnið í Bjarnarhöfn (Bjarnarhöfn Shark Museum), Snæfellsnes peninsula, western Iceland: Bjarnarhöfn shark-museum, via Facebook June 4, 2020

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

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Image credits:

Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus), unrestrained and wild, with copepod parasite (Ommatokoita elongata) attached to right eye, swims over field of plumose or frilled anemones (Metridium senile) in St. Lawrence River estuary, Quebec; image of Greenland sleeper shark, "not hooked and tail-roped as in most or all photos from the Arctic"; Greenland shark 67), by Dallas, Texas-born marine wildlife photographer Doug Perrine/SeaPics.com: Sharks4Kids, via Facebook June 28, 2019, @ https://www.facebook.com/Sharks4Kids/posts/pfbid02gcJLyh85J5u6r8aFGTg9icfvRW4vNPg4UnzKzEnYv6zGpesunqQMfdMrUTpb7sW7l;
Sharks4Kids, via Facebook June 28, 2019, @ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2236371766446006&id=437119606371240&set=a.534656709950862;
Sharks4Kids, via Facebook June 28, 2019, @ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10151605214112132&set=a.10151605214022132;
https://www.facebook.com/interestingengineering/posts/lurking-beneath-the-icy-waters-of-the-arctic-the-greenland-shark-is-a-true-deep-/1051310337040403/;
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Greenland shark 67.jpg, via Doug Perrine @ https://dougperrine.photoshelter.com/image?&_bqG=30&_bqH=eJxtUEFOwzAQfE1z4dKqRIJKPrjebbrQ2GA7oenFiiBQaFXUhEPF6_FGFUSAJY9nZndsrTfT4647rZeXDyqn51N20y3WqX3bpPdXs8n0ejYZj3lHpABOiZe2aQ77.vB00W3rdpdQcCA9jtJ5no9SEAMDgA2AgVXFxSaf0cbfUfwbxf.jinzVP.ZjmYkyhfa2CuQMS2MJdayR0SzJBYsrlA7hLO.G2hnrhZX6NumnDFKD.Ii8cGgDgSj4B_YlvH46d3xf8tglWV_IVZAZalVxUxLUPFC8OEbPtPimdvFDc6ZSedE1dfu4Tco.nfWoGL8A23Z1Pg--&GI_ID=;
Doug Perrine, "Rare Finds Stranger Than Fiction," National Wildlife Foundation NWF/Magazines/National Wildlife, Aug. 1, 2009, @ https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2009/Rare-Finds

Contents of a Greenland shark's stomach have included (left to right) baby whale's tail and skull, polar bear's bones and skin and (in vacuum seal on floor, right) an orca's fin; Hákarlasafnið í Bjarnarhöfn (Bjarnarhöfn Shark Museum), Snæfellsnes peninsula, western Iceland: Bjarnarhöfn shark-museum, via Facebook June 4, 2020, @ https://www.facebook.com/sharkmuseum/posts/pfbid0P5zVW86fAJjP946djw5hMVtUE7TTpEFKv1BMhG4vcnQeSqAyxmCCtg3n6AtpFXekl;
Bjarnarhöfn shark-museum, via Facebook June 4, 2020, @ https://www.facebook.com/sharkmuseum/photos/scientists-believe-that-greenland-sharks-are-primarily-scavengers-here-in-bjarna/3432685246759554/

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