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LSM4261 MARINE BIOLOGY

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"Sharks are masters of seven senses"

"Sharks are masters of seven senses" (Shark Foundation webpage).

Sharks "see in the dark better than cats, they smell 10,000 times better than humans and have a highly developed sense of taste. They have excellent hearing, receive and sense even the slightest differences in pressure, feel currents and can detect the electrical fields of their prey."

Sharks seven senses

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Published Wednesday, February 06, 2008 11:18 PM by N. Sivasothi
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About N. Sivasothi

Sivasothi is lecturing Biodiversity, Ecology, Structure and Function, Marine Biology and Animal Behaviour with the Department of Biological Sciences. His interests include otters, mangroves, museum databases, coastal ecology, tree-climbing crabs and conservation of biodiversity. He is also the national coordinator of the International Coastal Cleanup Singapore and Toddycats! Volunteers of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, NUS.