Roy Katherine - Neighborhood Sharks Hunting With The Great Whites Of California's Farallon Islands - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Winner of the John Burroughs Riverby Award for Young Readers Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them - just twenty - six miles from the Golden Gate Bridge! A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall while the city's inhabitants dine on steaks salads and sandwiches the great white sharks return to California's Farallon Islands to dine on their favorite meal: the seals that live on the island's rocky coasts. Massive fast and perfectly adapted to hunting after 11 million years of evolution the great whites are among the planet's most fearsome fascinating and least understood animals. In the fall of 2012, Katherine Roy visited the Farallons with the scientists who study the islands shark population. She witnessed seal attacks observed sharks being tagged in the wild and got an up close look at the dramatic Farallons - a wildlife refuge that is strictly off - limits to all but the scientists who work there. Neighborhood Sharks is an intimate portrait of the life cycle biology and habitat of the great white shark based on the latest research and an up - close visit with these amazing animals. This title has Common Core connections.
Title: Neighborhood Sharks Hunting With The Great Whites Of California's Farallon Islands
Author(s): Roy Katherine, Katherine Roy
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Barcode: 9781596438743
Pages: 48 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/30/2014
Category: Wildlife (Children's / Teenage)