. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. Fig. 287.—white shakk. in the adult six. The strength of this fish is very great, and its motions rapid; its voracity knows no bounds; hence it is amongst the most dangerous of animals. Men frequently become its victims, and as many as eight or ten tunnies have been found at once in its stomach. Seals, tunnies, and cod-fish are the ordinary food of sharks, but they attack dead bodies, and even devour each other. Tlie shark, indeed, is omnivorous; he will swallow anything, from tin-pots and canvas to fat pork and anchovies. In t
. The animal creation: a popular introduction to zoology. Zoology. Fig. 287.—white shakk. in the adult six. The strength of this fish is very great, and its motions rapid; its voracity knows no bounds; hence it is amongst the most dangerous of animals. Men frequently become its victims, and as many as eight or ten tunnies have been found at once in its stomach. Seals, tunnies, and cod-fish are the ordinary food of sharks, but they attack dead bodies, and even devour each other. Tlie shark, indeed, is omnivorous; he will swallow anything, from tin-pots and canvas to fat pork and anchovies. In the stomach of one taken in the harbour at Sydney were found half a ham, several legs of mutton, the hind quarter of a pig, the head and fore-legs of a bull-dog, with a rope round its neck, a quantity of horseflesh, a piece of sacking, and a ship's scraper. This catalogue would form an interesting fact for a work on ' Digestion and its Derangements.' From the liver of this fish twelve gallons of oil were obtained.— Dr. Bennett. The Greenland Shark (Lsemargus horealis) is a large animal, twelve or fourteen feet in length or more, and six or eight in circum-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880. London : Society for Promoting Knowledge
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