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When our fascination with sharks was new

Reviewing: Gene Helfman and George H. Burgess, Sharks: the animal answer guide. 2014 Johns Hopkins University Press, 249 pp

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Notes

  1. Maōri term for the White Pointer = White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias

  2. for which Helfman and Burgess (2014) note “about which misinformation abounds” (p.15).

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  1. École John McRae, Guelph, ON, Canada

    Maki H. J. C. Burgess

  2. Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

    Stephen S. Crawford

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Burgess, M.H.J.C., Crawford, S.S. When our fascination with sharks was new. Environ Biol Fish 100, 1145–1153 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-017-0627-9

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