The IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group
Shark News 8: December 1996
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Eyewitness Shark Video
The publishing company Dorling Kindersley are now moving into the
video market. They have produced, in collaboration with BBC
Television, a 28 minute video based on their Eyewitness Shark book.
This presents a fast-moving mixture of excellent natural history
footage (from the BBC) with impressive graphics, covering a range of
material from the factual (biology, evolution, ecology and scientific
research) to human uses, shark attacks (inevitably rather gory at the
outset, but put into perspective later), history, myth and legend. There
is some wonderful behavioural footage (not just feeding, but also
mating and birth). The video does not only cover the obvious (e.g.
white and whale sharks), but also the more obscure and unusual, from
hornshark to angel shark and megamouth. Finally, it doesn't only
concentrate on sharks, but rays (including sawfishes) and chimaeras
also get a reasonable showing. The conservation message is strong.
While I am admittedly not an expert on the range of educational
videos now available, I was impressed.
Sarah Fowler.
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