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    Encyclopedia Collection Box Set
    Encyclopedia Collection Box Set
    Encyclopedia Collection Box Set
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    Encyclopedia Collection Box Set

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    Now, for the first time ever, and only for a limited time, you can get this value-priced, limited edition boxed set.
    Encyclopedia Collection Box Set includes three bestselling books from My Ebook Publishing House:

    Book #1
    The Encyclopedia of Sharks
    Read all about the fascinating world of sharks. There are over 500 species of sharks, and there is a great deal of diversity among them. Sharks include the world's largest fish, the Whale Shark, as well as some as small as a few inches. Most are predators, but a few filter plankton from the seawater.

    Book #2
    Encyclopedia of Dog Breeds
    Encyclopedia of Dog Breeds includes photos and descriptions of breeds from around the world. The background to each breed is detailed - its origins, development, characteristics and, where applicable, mode of working. Breed standards are given as well as care tips for looking after each breed.

    Book #3
    Universe: The Solar System and Beyond
    Experience the cosmos as never before with UNIVERSE: The Solar System and Beyond
    Beginning with a fascinating overview and then organized by planet, this book takes us on a trip across time and space that includes a front-row seat to the explosive birth of the solar system, a journey to (and then deep inside) each of its eight planets, and even an in-depth exploration of asteroids and comets.
    With this newly revised edition, the authors' goals are to help you use astronomy to understand science--and use science to understand what we are. Fascinating, engaging, and visually vibrant, this text will help you answer two fundamental questions: What are we? And how do we know?
    Three ever widening domains are presented—Earth, our solar system, and the large scale universe itself--each including the ones before it and extending outward.

    Book #4
    Encyclopedia of Dolphins
    Thought to be one of the most intelligent and beautiful creatures in our oceans and rivers, dolphins also take on a persona that is adored worldwide. We see them jumping, playing, and even hear them laughing as they have fun in the ocean. Dolphins are some of the most highly intelligent creatures on earth. These warm-blooded mammals belong to a group of mammals called Cetaceans which also encompass all whales.
    This is the perfect book for anyone who loves these incredibly versatile and intelligent creatures and wants to find out more than the dolphin show at the zoo can offer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMy Ebook Publishing House
    Release dateSep 1, 2014
    ISBN9781310346279
    Encyclopedia Collection Box Set
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    My Ebook Publishing House was founded as part of a large project, developed to bring you quality education materials.The publishing policy is guided by professionalism and follows the educational needs of our youth.The prestige that the publishing house has reached for the last years is emphasised by the large number of people that purchase its books as well as by the constant interest for libraries and educational institutions.We invite you to join us in the wonderful world of books!

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      Encyclopedia Collection Box Set - My Ebook Publishing House

      Book #1

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      The Encyclopedia of Sharks

      Table of Contents

      The primary senses of the sharks

      Special senses

      Prepared to kill

      The shark eggs

      The great white

      The tiger shark

      The white snout oceanic shark

      The nurse-shark

      The grey reef shark

      The hammer-head fish

      The blue shark

      The mako shark

      The spike shark

      The lacy shark

      The primary senses of the sharks

      The sharks have very well developed senses, suitable for the underwater life. They use their senses for staying away from predators (animals which hunt other animals) and for hunting marine creatures which they feed on.

      Always prepared for attack

      The sharks might be hurt when fighting with their prey. But some sharks, such as the oceanic white nose shark, have the eyes covered by a protective layer of skin. A protective layer of skin also covers partly the eye of this oceanic white nose shark.

      The sight of the sharks

      The sharks have very good sight. In the deep and dark waters, the reflecting layer from the bottom of their eyes help them see better, acting like a mirror and enhancing this way their visibility, in the poor light surrounding them. In the dark, the reflecting layer from the bottom of the eye of a shark makes its eye glow.

      Attacking blindly

      The sharks that do not have a protective layer on their eyes, twist their eyes with the pupil inside when they attack. Therefore they do not see the prey in the moment when they prepare to tear it.

      The hearing

      The sharks’ ears are inside their head. They have two ears, one for each side of the brain. The hearing is adapted to distinguish low frequency noises. A shark hears easily the noise made by the motor of a boat, from a relatively great distance.

      The smell

      The sharks have two nostrils situated on their muzzle. They are not used for breathing, but for smelling. The shark swims, and the water passes through its nostrils and through a special tegument which detects the smells. The wide nostrils of this Caribbean reef shark help it detect the fishes he feeds with.

      The taste

      The sharks have gustatory buds on their hard palate and tongue. These buds help them decide if the food they are eating is good or bad. However, the sharks swallow sometimes garbage from the sea: metal cans, plastic bags and plastic recipients. The sharks can accidently swallow garbage from the sea when they swim. Data about the sharks: the sharks have an especially developed sense of smell and feel the smell of blood from a three kilometers distance.

      Special senses

      The sharks have a few unusual senses, which help them be good predators. The sharks feel the moves of the creatures nearby and can even recognize the electrical impulses sent by these animals.

      The electrical impulses detectives

      All the animals emanate electrical impulses through their muscles and nerves. The sharks feel these impulses through the pores found on their muzzles. This way they locate their prey. The black spots found on the muzzle of this sand tiger shark (also called the grey nanny shark) are pores through which it feels the electrical impulses.

      Biting metal

      Sometimes, the sharks attack metallic objects. In the salty water of the sea, the metals transmit weak electrical impulses which confuse the sharks. Probably, the sharks take these objects as a prey and plunge toward them.

      Sharp senses

      The sharks feel the presence of a predator or prey, without seeing it. The sharks have under their skin thin canals containing minuscule fuzzes which detect the weakest move around them. Sharks have canals on both sides of their body, which help it feel the surrounding animals.

      Hidden pleasures

      Some sharks that live on the bottom of the sea find their food with the aid of the tactile sense. They have small moustaches on their muzzle which help them feel the prey, even though it is hiding under the sand.

      Touch and taste

      The moustaches are covered with small gustative buds, so that the sharks can touch and taste the prey at the same time, to see if it is good to eat.

      Prepared to kill

      The sharks have different ways of attacking their prey. Most of the sharks hunt individually, but some hunt in groups. They are usually calm hunters, but they can become agitated killers.

      A single bite

      The great white attacks its prey and bites the pursued animal only once, bears off from the victim it lets helpless or dying, then it consumes it. It avoids this way getting hurt in battle.

      Powerful bites

      Some sharks can bite the prey strongly. They can bite strongly because their jaws are connected to their skull, and this way their mouth opens widely. When a shark opens its mouth for biting its prey, its head and muzzle lifts, and the jaws spread out. When the jaws are open the widest, the upper jaw and the teeth move forward, allowing the shark to bite stronger.

      Group killers

      Some sharks hunt in groups. For example, the black fins reef sharks hunt together and surround the prey. Then they chase the fish that they hunt up to shallow waters, and then on the beach. The sharks come out of the water then, grab the fish and swim back into the water. This is how a black fins reef sharks hunt, following the fish on the beach’s sand.

      Great agitation

      When a group of sharks finds a shoal of fish, they can become agitated. They attack the fish with rage and sometimes bite each other in their agitation. This is called the frenzy of feeding. These grey reef sharks found a shoal of fish and start fidgeting.

      Laying the eggs

      Some shark species lay eggs. The shark cubs grow inside the egg and hatch of the egg when they are fully developed for the life in the exterior environment.

      Surviving

      While inside the egg, a baby shark receive food from the vitelline sack attached to its body. And the water goes into the egg, giving oxygen to the cub. In the image it can be seen the shark baby and its vitelline sack, inside the egg’s shell.

      The shark eggs

      The shark eggs are of various shapes and sizes. Many of them have the shape of some bags, and all have the outer shell hard, to protect the baby found inside. Some eggs have long threads at extremities. When the female shark lays an egg, the threads from the end of the egg cling to plants or rocks from the bottom of the sea, stopping this way the egg from being carried by the currents.

      Eggs of spiraled shape

      The eggs of the horned sharks do not have thread at its ends, but have a weird shape, spiraled. To protect them, the shark females carry often the eggs in their mouth and set them in small cracks between rocks.

      The shark eggs facing dangers

      The sharks do not guard their eggs, so that the cubs are exposed to numerous dangers that threaten their life. Some eggs are eaten by predators, and others are carried by storms on the shore, where they dry out, and the babies found in the eggs die.

      Hatching

      The babies of some shark species spend more time inside the egg than others. But all the cubs, after consumed all the substances from the sack, hatch and start looking for food. The mothers leave their eggs in the areas where there is plenty of food for the babies that will hatch. The shark from this egg is ready to come out. To break the shell of the egg, the shark forces it at one end. The baby shark knows how to swim perfectly, immediately after it is born.

      The great white

      The great white is the most famous shark. It is also called the white death, having the fame of ferocious predator, which attacks humans.

      The terrifying white shark

      The great white is the biggest carnivorous shark, reaching even six meters in length. The white shark has powerful and sharp teeth and bites strongly. Here is a comparison between the size of a white shark and the one of a diver.

      Human hunter?

      Even though the great white is very dangerous and sometimes humans fall prey to it as well, it does not usually feed on human flesh. These sharks prefer seals, their very fat meat providing them a lot of energy. This seal would be a food desired by any white shark.

      The surface sharks

      The great white attacks usually at the surface of the water. They swim beneath the prey and emerge out of the water to catch the hunted animal. The great white appears suddenly at the surface, seeking for its victims.

      Facts about sharks: after eating a larger animal, a white shark can stay without feeding for several weeks.

      This great white swims close to the surface, seeking for its prey.

      Concern for the great white

      The great white lives in the waters from the coast, in places such as: Australia, Southern Africa, The United States and the Mediterranean Sea area. It is rare species and the individuals of this species are protected in some parts of the world. The white shark is seen rarely, so that meeting this kind of a shark is unusual.

      Dangerous sharks

      The tiger shark, the bull shark and the white snout shark are very dangerous and can easily kill large animals. Happily, the odds for a man to be attacked by a shark are very small.

      The tiger shark

      The young tiger sharks have on their skin stripes which look alike a little with the ones from the skin of the tigers. But once with their pass through maturation, these patterns disappear and they start looking like another scary shark-the great white. This tiger shark bites famished from the meat of a dead whale.

      Easy prey

      The tiger sharks eat often albatross babies. Each year, the sharks gather near the islands of Hawaii, where there live numerous albatrosses. The sharks wait for the young birds to fall into the water, during the flying lessons, and then they snatch them quickly. An albatross baby is an easy prey.

      Facts about sharks: the biggest and strongest sharks attack and eat all kind of animals: calamari, dolphins and even other sharks.

      The white snout oceanic shark

      The white snout oceanic shark is usually met offshore, so that it is not a thread for the humans. It is believed though that this shark attacked and killed people that fell into the ocean, either after a shipwreck, either after a plane crashed.

      The bull sharks

      Most of the sharks live only in the oceans and seas waters, but the bull sharks can sometimes be found in rivers. They have been seen on the Amazon, in Peru, at four thousand kilometers from the place where this river flows into the sea.

      Dangerous rivers

      The bull sharks are only three meters long, but it is known that they attacked large animals, for example hippos, and even attacked humans. Another fish (the manta ray), a relative of the shark, attacks cruelly and badly injures humans that bathe into the tropical rivers.

      The life on the bottom of the sea

      Many species of sharks live in the waters from the bottom of the sea. These sharks move heavier, lazier and rest with pleasure on the bottom of the sea. When they hunt, they find the food with the moustaches from their muzzle.

      The nurse-shark

      The nurse sharks are often found in the shallow waters from the rocky reefs, or on the sandy bottom where they are well camouflaged. This nurse-shark swims above a reef in the Caribbean, place where there live many sharks of this species.

      The sleepy sharks

      The nurse-sharks rest pretty much. After they find a soothing cave or another shelter, the nurse-sharks crowd one on top of each other, being this way more protected. They rest at day and go out hunting at night.

      The reef sharks

      In the reefs and around them are found numerous species of marine plants and animals, among which also a great number of species of sharks. Some of these sharks are called reef sharks, because of the environment they live in.

      The grey reef shark

      The grey reef shark can be found around the coral reefs from the Indian and Pacific oceans. The sharks from this species are fairly large, could reach two and a half meters in length. This grey reef

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