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Swimming with Hammerhead Sharks (Scientists in the Field Series)

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By Kenneth Mallory
Publisher HMH Books for Young Readers
Swimming with Hammerhead Sharks (Scientists in the Field Series)
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One of the worlds experts on hammerhead sharks, marine biologist Pete Klimley is fighting the stereotype of sharks as primitive and vicious killers. In fact, hammerheads exhibit some remarkably sophisticated social behaviors, including their schooling in the hundreds at underwater seamounts in the Pacific Ocean. To tell the story of these incredible animals, author Ken Mallory talked with Pete Klimley and then traveled to tiny Cocos Island, 330 miles off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. There, he had the chance of a lifetime to see these aweinspiring animals up close.

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6790 words6,790 words
48 pages48 pages
Lexile 1270LLexile 1270L
Grade 2 to 7Grade 2 to 7
Published 2001Published 2001

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0618055436

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