When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.
People generally thought that sharks are dumb eating machines. After some study, I began to realize that these 'gangsters' of the deep had gotten a bad rap.
The humped bladderwort has yellow, snapdragon-like flowers, and it's actually carnivorous, capable of trapping and eating not just insects but even tadpoles and tiny fish.
Sharks are really serious animals. They've been around longer than dinosaurs. They're basically prehistoric killing machines, and that's terrifying and fascinating, at the same time.
Most people catch them breaching from the surface when they're shooting out of the water. I have them breaching from underwater in a 16-time sequence, a shark leaving the water and then reentering the water.
I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.
I was actually quite surprised how many more mythologies there are about mermaids than the ones our society knows. I was so pleasantly surprised for 'Siren' to add quite an original idea to that: One that is a predator. One that is very intelligent but still has to survive in the ocean with all of its challenges.
We're humans. We live on land. Sharks live in water. So if you're swimming in the water and a shark bites you, that's called trespassing. That is called trespassing. That is not a shark attack.
The bohar snapper - they have these huge canines. I got bit by one. One took a chunk out of my ear - they are much scarier than the sharks.
Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
There are no poisonous snakes, but the islands are infested with hordes of lizards ranging in size from only an inch to over three feet… It has been necessary to construct the few houses on the island on piers and to take other steps to keep the lizards from overrunning them…is exceptionally clear and blue and abounding in different types of fish. Ocean bathing is considered dangerous as a constant watch must be kept for shark and barracuda
The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.
I'm afraid of sharks - but only in a water situation.
