From today's LA Times "The Wild" section:
Find out why white sharks really do love Southern California beaches. You could
learn a lot by tracking white sharks. Chris Lowe did. The marine biology
professor and director of CalState Long Beach’s Shark
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discovered that sharks like to use our beaches as a nursery for their young.
Still there’s a lot we don’t know about the largest predatory fish on the
planet, such as how many are there and how vulnerable is their population. Each
weighs in at more than 2½ tons and has “300 serrated, triangular teeth arranged
in several rows,” according to National
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Want to know more? Join a webinar in which Lowe explains why white sharks
behave the way they do and what risks they pose to beach-goers. The Santa
Barbara Maritime
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sponsors the free event on Sept. 17 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Register in advance
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