The Truth About Sharks

By Ginny S.

People think that sharks are monsters, but here’s the truth about them. Humans kill 100 million sharks per year, but sharks killing humans…???? Only between about 4 and 10 per year. Sharks like to eat seals, seagulls, and fish. One of their attacks on their prey is circle swimming (where they will swim around the prey and choose what angle they will attack their prey from if they are not doing a jump attack), close-eye inspection (where they look at their prey from below where their prey doesn’t see them and they think if they want to eat it), and jump attacks (where they go under their prey and swim straight up using their tail power and go really fast. With their prey not knowing, they quickly attack from below.