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A review by larissadistler
The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks by Susan Casey
3.0
Great white sharks are awesome . . . and terrifying. They bite the heads off of elephant seals and then frolic in the fountain of blood.
They've also been evolving 100 times longer than we have so their bodies are perfectly suited to what they do and they are bad ass. They're like biker gangs of the ocean world except instead of tattoos they are marked with scars all over their bodies. Their prey is huge (Except for orcas, who team up and eat great white sharks for breakfast). They don't seem to really want to eat humans. They prefer bigger, blubbery-er animals.
What we know about them is pretty slim. Susan Casey describes a research team that dedicated fifteen years to studying great whites off the coast of California in the "red triangle." She describes living in near isolation, watching elephant seals get decapitated, boats escaping during huge storms, and surprisingly little about the terrifying, but awesome great white shark.
"Voices from the Ocean" about dolphins is a better book with a lot more history, science, and insight into dolphins. Granted dolphins are much easier to get close to and interact with and there are more dolphin studies going on world wide.
I hope the shark research goes on and in the future I get to read a brilliant expose on what makes a shark tick. This was not that book, but it was a start and it did pique my interest.
They've also been evolving 100 times longer than we have so their bodies are perfectly suited to what they do and they are bad ass. They're like biker gangs of the ocean world except instead of tattoos they are marked with scars all over their bodies. Their prey is huge (Except for orcas, who team up and eat great white sharks for breakfast). They don't seem to really want to eat humans. They prefer bigger, blubbery-er animals.
What we know about them is pretty slim. Susan Casey describes a research team that dedicated fifteen years to studying great whites off the coast of California in the "red triangle." She describes living in near isolation, watching elephant seals get decapitated, boats escaping during huge storms, and surprisingly little about the terrifying, but awesome great white shark.
"Voices from the Ocean" about dolphins is a better book with a lot more history, science, and insight into dolphins. Granted dolphins are much easier to get close to and interact with and there are more dolphin studies going on world wide.
I hope the shark research goes on and in the future I get to read a brilliant expose on what makes a shark tick. This was not that book, but it was a start and it did pique my interest.