Keeping a Red-Tailed Black Shark

A Red-Tailed Black Shark is a stunning fish, with a velvety- black body, a bright red tail, and a lovely streamlined shape. If you are going to keep a Black Shark in your aquarium, and I highly recommend that you do, only get one, because they get very aggressive towards others of their species. When they are younger they are relatively harmless, but as they got older and bigger they can get very cantankerous.

You need to give your Black Shark plenty of hiding places to choose from, like a flowerpot on its side, or some rocks or bogwood it can hide behind, because Black Sharks do need their own space, and get very unhappy when they can’t find a place to call their own. I have a shipwreck in my aquarium (an old ship made by my husband from a kit), that had holes made in the side so the Shark can get in and out. Whenever I take the shipwreck out to clean it the Shark gets very upset and sulks for quite a while. How do I know? He is no longer a beautiful velvety-black, his body is now grey, and he swims around chasing any other fish who dare to get in his way.

Do be careful also as your shark gets older and you buy new tropical fish for your aquarium. I had a problem a few years ago, that whenever I bought new fish, by the morning they were all dead. It took me a while to work it out, but the Black Shark would wait until I wasn’t looking, and then he would chase the new fishes around the aquarium until they died from shock/exhaustion. I didn’t know fish were that clever, but this one certainly was! I ended up giving the Black Shark to a friend who had a much larger aquarium than mine, which had a big Angelfish that was the boss of his tank. The Black Shark lived happily there for a few more years, with the Angelfish keeping him in his place.

You may know the Red-Tailed Black Shark as Red-Tailed Labeo, which it probably a better name, because the fish is in no way related to true sharks, so it is rather misleading. The scientific name is Labeo Bicolor.

Jackie Robinson is a keen hobbyist, and has kept freshwater tropical fish for over 20 years. Find out more information on a variety of Freshwater Tropical Fish

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Salmon Shark Fishing Off Prince William Sound

Salmon shark fishing is one of the highlights of many a sports fisherman's holiday, allowing them to have all the fun and excitement of landing a shark without needing to go all the way to tropical waters to experience the adventure. Salmon shark fishing in Prince William Sound in Alaska is almost as famous as the salmon fishing in the area, but requires a whole different set of equipment and strategies to land these huge predators of the deep.

About Salmon Sharks

Salmon sharks are actually a variety of sharks that live in the colder waters of the northern part of the Pacific Ocean. They follow the movement of the various types of salmon, moving into shallower coastal waters during the spawning season and then moving again into deeper waters with the young salmon that move into the ocean to mature. Salmon sharks are generally dark gray to black on the top and lighter cream or white colors on the bottom. Salmon sharks will take six to ten years to reach maturity, and will often grow to be in excess of nine feet in length and up to four hundred pounds in weight.

Salmon shark fishing in Alaska is compared to fishing Marlin down in the more southern waters off of Mexico. The salmon shark is a voracious feeder and will hit on almost any type of bait while they are actively feeding on the schools of salmon. Salmon shark fishing is always done from a boat, with proper mounting brackets for heavy rods, reels and tackle. Most anglers report that it can take up to an hour to bring in a salmon shark once it is on the line. They can often be seen jumping out the water or “cartwheeling” as they try to escape from the hook and line.

In most situations salmon shark fishing is for trophy pictures only, often with the sharks being released. Anglers that wish to bring home the sharks need to ensure that the shark is gutted and bled out as soon as possible after being brought out of the water to prevent the meat from spoiling. The meat obtained from salmon shark fishing is not to everyone’s taste, but many cultures, including the Japanese, consider the meat of a salmon shark as well as the liver to be a delicacy.

There are several charter companies that offer salmon shark fishing in various areas off the Alaskan coast with Prince William Sound being the most popular area. If you want to add a bit of excitement to your next northern fishing adventure consider spending a day out salmon shark fishing, you won’t be disappointed.

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The Most Dangerous Shark Species Involved In Shark Attacks On Humans

In movies such as “Jaws” and “Deep Blue Sea”, sharks have been depicted as cold blooded killers. Although I must agree with the fact that they are cold blooded creatures and that by being natural predators, they must kill in order to ensure their own survival, the similarities stop right there!

In these movies, they also made them to be smart stalkers as in reality, the only hunting moves they actually put on their potential preys are the angles or types of attacks. They do not plan or stalk their preys like humans do; after all, their brain is not large enough to think things through. The functions that their brain can perform are simply based on automatisms and survival instincts.

Although, humans are victims of an average of 58 on a yearly basis, in 2005, only 4 of these 58 attacks resulted in fatalities. If you compare these results to the 100 million sharks that are killed every year of which 100% of this statistic results in fatalities, this is a blessing that the number of fatalities resulting from shark attacks on humans is not as alarming.

While there have been 39 shark species involved in shark attacks on humans in the period of time ranging from 1580 up to 2006. These shark species have been involved in 1238 shark attacks on humans of which 622 were unprovoked attack that resulted in 135 fatalities. There were also 348 provoked shark attacks on humans, 163 boat attacks and 105 no assignment (unable to decide in which category it should have been added).

Now, of theses 1238 shark attacks, the great white shark is in the first place with 430 shark attacks (63 fatalities) on humans. The second place goes to the tiger shark with 145 attacks (28 fatalities). The third place goes to the bull shark with 110 shark attacks (23 fatalities). The fourth place goes to the requiem shark with 49 attacks (8 fatalities). The fifth place goes to the sand tiger shark with 76 shark attacks (2 fatalities). The sixth place goes to the blacktip shark with 40 attacks (1 fatality). The seventh place goes to the hammerhead shark with 38 attacks (1 fatality. The eighth place goes to the spinner shark with 16 shark attacks. The ninth place goes to the blue shark with 38 attacks (4 fatalities). Finally, the tenth place belongs to the blacktip reef shark with 20 shark attacks on humans.

While some people think the bigger the shark, the most dangerous it is to humans, facts prove them wrong. In fact, while some shark species were not responsible for as many fatalities then others, other factors contributed to this list. As an example, the number of unprovoked attacks, provoked ones and boat attacks are some of these factors. As some were not assigned, confirmed or not specified, such statistics may vary or affect the ranking of certain species. Please note that these rankings can also change according to new statistics.

My name is Sylvie Leochko. My interest in sharks has motivated me in informing people better on these creatures. If you wish to learn more information about them, I invite you to visit the following main page of this site: http://sharks.findoutnow.org/shark-attack-videoclips.html.

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What Are The Odds Of Dying Of A Shark Attack

While sharks deserved our respect it does not mean that Hollywood is right when they imply with their shark movies that a soon as you go in the water you will become the victim of a shark attack. All it means is that we have to keep in mind that when we go in the water, we cannot ignore the fact that it is also their natural habitat and that we just entered their home.

What are actually the odds, in the United States, of being victim of a shark attack? Let’s study the odds given by a scientific study about it. If you take into consideration that there was 58 unprovoked shark attacks world wide in 2005 and that 38 of them happened in the United States which is a country that has a population of about 300 million, your odds to be victim or a shark attack is 1 in 8 million. Did you know that your odds of dying from a fall down the stairs are 1 in 200,000 which is lower than the odds of being a victim from a shark attack?

Also, your odds of dying from a wasp, bee or hornet sting are 1 in 5.9 million which is higher than being attacked by a shark. Your odds of dying from a lightning strike are 1 in 4.3 million which again is higher than being attacked by a shark.

Your odds of drowning in your bathtub are 1 in 800.000 which is once more lower that being victim of a shark attack. Other higher odds are: dying from an adverse reaction to antibiotics with the odds being 1 in 7 million, being killed by a falling object has odds of 1 in 400,000, being killed by an agricultural machine has odds of 1 in 500,000 and being killed in a motor vehicle accident has odds of 1 in 6,000.

What are the odds of actually winning your state lottery compared to being victim of a shark attack? Well, I guess that you just hit the “jackpot” as this is where the odds of a shark attack are higher as the odds of winning the state lottery are 1 in 14 million.

My name is Sylvie Leochko. Are you interested in finding out more information about shark attacks? Let’s leave the shark movies out of it and search for facts about “real” shark attacks and their odds. Then I invite you to follow this link: http://sharks.findoutnow.org/shark-attack-video-clips.html and learn all about it.

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Is the Amount of Fatalities Resulting from Shark Attacks as High as You Think?

When people hear or read about a shark attack, they seem to think it is fatal and that once in a blue moon, there is a lucky survivor that comes out of it. Well, in fact, it is quite the opposite, there are a lot more survivor of shark attacks that there are fatalities.

For example, in 2002, there were 63 unprovoked shark attacks world wide that were officially reported to the ISAF (International Shark Attack File) and three fatalities. This means that 4.7% of the total amount of shark attacks reported in 2002.

If you look at several areas world wide from 1998 to 2002, you will be surprised by the statistics. For example, in United States of America (continental), there were 204 unprovoked shark attacks reported to the ISAF of which 5 resulted in fatalities. This represents 2.4% of the total amount reported during this period.

In Asia, there were 3 shark attacks, which all resulted in fatalities. If you look at the percentage, it gives you 100% which could scare just about anyone. Mexico also had the same percentage of fatalities as Asia with a total of 2 shark attacks. Let’s take a look at other areas. In Africa, there were 44 shark attacks for 11 fatalities (25%). South America had 17 unprovoked shark attacks and 4 fatalities (23.5%).

Although the Bahamas counted 11 shark attacks and the Antilles had 3, none were fatal, which looks very promising with 0% of fatalities resulting from the total of unprovoked shark attacks. Hawaii also had the same percentage as the two of them although it had 17 reported shark attacks. New Zealand also had no fatalities despite the 3 shark attacks that were reported during this period.

The Pacific Islands had a total of 6 reported unprovoked shark attacks that resulted in 2 fatalities (33.3%). Australia had 20 shark attacks reported during that time of which 7 resulted in fatalities (35%).

As you can see, altogether, the number of fatalities actually resulting from shark attacks is far from being equal to the total amount of shark attacks. To the people thinking that most if not all shark attacks result in fatalities, I say: “You have watched “Jaws” too many times!”

My name is Sylvie Leochko. I am quite intrigued by everything about sharks but as I soon discovered, knowledge makes them a lot less scary and a lot more interesting than most people think. For this reason, I enjoy sharing the results of my research with others. If you wish to learn more about shark attacks, I encourage you to visit the following site: http://sharks.findoutnow.org/shark-attack-video-clips.html .

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Popular Rabbit Names

We get a lot of email asking for help in choosing a name for newly adopted rabbit pets. Well, as part of our research we looked into the most popular bunny names, so we thought we'd share them with you.

Here are rabbit names from our collection in random order:

* Bailey
* Bugs
* Thumper
* Puddles
* Midnight
* Riley
* Stormie
* Pippin
* Noel
* Piper
* Holbrook
* Willow
* Cocoa
* Maybelline
* Oreo
* Dezzi
* Pepper
* Cherub
* Romeo
* Hershey
* Hayley
* Velvet
* Tinkerbell
* Juniper
* Dutch
* Tuxedo
* Patches
* Sadie
* Tyler
* Duchess
* Harvey
* Pumpkin
* Angel
* Binky
* Hopkins
* Snowball
* Peanut
* Dakota
* Dash
* Hopper
* Nutmeg
* Smokey

Not Enough? :-) Ok, more names for your rabbit pet:

* Chance
* Satine
* Shadow
* Snuggles
* Thumbelina
* Flopsy
* Marshmallow
* Gatsby
* Jade
* Frodo
* Arial
* Rex
* Mittens
* Zuzu
* Halo
* Onyx
* Sabrina
* Belle
* Noir
* Q-Tip
* Nibbles
* Daisy
* Merry
* Tricycle
* Oscar
* Zoey
* Pepper
* Sundance
* Hopson
* Ripley
* Trance
* Sweetpea
* Charmin
* Noah
* Bunster
* Silver
* Bumper
* Rascal

Do you know other popular rabbit names? Let us know and we will add them to this list!

Names From Our Readers

* Jazmin (name for girl bunny-rabbit)
* Princess
* Rox
* Ebbie (stands for the initials E.B., short cut for Easter Bunny)
* Emma
* Sophie
* Einstein (name for smart male rabbit
* Muffin
* Mopsy
* Honey
* Dopey (cute name for small cute pet)
* Charlie
* Smores
* Ollie
* Willow Jett
* Fern
* Snickerz
* Gadget (probably the name for rabbit who love to play with toys)
* Dandelion (great name!)
* Thumper
* Zypp
* White Chocolate (in case the rabbit is brown and white)
* Tinker
* Sunny
* Buttons (when you'll see baby bunny's eyes you'll understand this)
* Hocus Pocus
* Houdini
* Treacle
* Bunny-Bunny (fun name when said in a very high pitch)
* Milly
* Amber
* Max
* Jessee (for a girl or a boy rabbit)
* Lola

You also can send us feedback note about our rabbit names collection. We will be happy to hear your opinion about it.

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Chinese Astrology Forecast for Rabbit of 2008

The Rabbit is more comfortable with the Pig, which symbolizes endings, rather than the Rat, which is associated with new beginnings. In 2008, the rabbit enjoys good luck in general especially in love area, however, health and wealth area aren't very good.

Rabbit Career

You'll meet a strong lucky star in the Rat year who's gonna to give you a hand while you are in trouble. You may make significant progress in career this year. Your ideas will be rewarded by your superior or boss that you are likely to get promoted. But, there are also several unlucky stars around you, your development won't be smooth. There might be small accident while you are close to success. But all the problems can be solved. Otherwise, as you are too shining in career, someone should be jealous of you, and you'll have arguing. Although you make more money this year, take care when shopping and spending, as the temptation for something new could come back to bite you down the road. It is not a wonderful year for speculative investment so stick with what you know best.

Rabbit Romance

The rabbit is gentle and talented in art, caring about friends, making people feel comfortable, so you are very popular. The single Rabbit should expect to abundance of opportunities in the year of Rat. Married rabbits will find so much fun in family life.

Rabbit Health

The health area of the rabbit is not so favorable in 2008. Under the influence of an unlucky star, you are vulnerable to get hurt in an accident this year. Otherwise, you are always in a negative mood as the lack of sleep. So take care of yourself.

Suggestions for Rabbit

Have enough sleep. Be cautious while crossing the road and driving. Focus on your career and love life.

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