THE SECRET LIFE OF SHARKS: A Leading Marine Biologist Reveals the Mysteries of Shark Behavior
By A. Peter Klimley, Ph.D.
Simon & Schister (2003)

After 30 years of researching sharks up close and personal, marine biologist Pete Klimley is convinced that sharks are far from the terrorists of the deep portrayed and fixed in the public imagination by movies like "Jaws." THE SECRET LIFE OF SHARKS: A Leading Marine Biologist Reveals the Mysteries of Shark Behavior chronicles Pete’s quest to understand the true nature of sharks and explain why he regards these creatures as the most maligned, misunderstood and misjudged creatures in the animal kingdom. And he should know – Pete has entered their underwater world, learned about their complex social relationships, discovered how they navigate across the oceans, and studied tactics that they use to catch their prey. Pete’s unique one-on-one contacts with hammerhead and white sharks have enabled him to make research breakthroughs that would have been impossible using conventional methods. (Once he even donned a wet suit fabricated to make him look like a killer whale – at least to the sharks – in order to test how sharks avoided predators.) This book takes the reader along with him as he literally swims with the sharks and is written in plain English for a general audience: facts and concepts will be simplified and seamlessly woven into the first-person adventure story.

Humans love sharks or hate them. But nearly everyone is fascinated by them, especially the media to judge from the great shark scare of summer 2001. This book will enthrall just about anyone interested in animal life, the sea, and adventure: ranging from the folks who watch Animal Channel, PBS nature shows, and Discovery Network to subscribers to Natural History and Outside Magazine.

Pete Klimley, an internationally known marine biologist regarded as the foremost authority in the world on the hammerhead and white shark, is currently a Senior Fisheries Ecologist at H.T. Harvey & Associates: Ecological Consultants, a Research Associate of the Bodega Marine Laboratory, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis. He received his M.S. at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and his Ph.D. at the University of California’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has published several articles on sharks in Natural History and similar magazines, more than fifty scientific articles, and has appeared in numerous film documentaries worldwide on the subject of sharks.

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