Barbara Block Quotes

We tagged it, and it went out there, and the tag popped up. Then the shark came back, and we tagged it again. - Barbara Block

We all are in the Bay Area and Central Coast working together on behalf of white shark conservation. - Barbara Block

This is clearly a unique shark speciesthe warmest of all gill-breathers in the ocean. - Barbara Block

They're capable of keeping their hearts beating at temperatures that would have long stopped a mammal's heart. - Barbara Block

These animals are teaching us... about basic aspects of our own physiology. - Barbara Block

The shark heart slows down in the cold, just as our own heart would... But ... where our heart would simply stop, the salmon shark's keeps on ticking. - Barbara Block

Sometimes
in winter the surface waters, which are less salty, were so cold that
the sharks spent more time in warmer, saltier waters below... When I glimpsed the sharks' radio positions from these frigid
seas, I often wondered what it would be like to overwinter in the wilds
of an Alaska fjord chasing herring in constant darkness. - Barbara Block

Sometimes in winter the surface waters, which are less salty, were so cold that the sharks spent more time in warmer, saltier waters below. When I glimpsed the sharks' radio positions from these frigid seas, I often wondered what it would be like to overwinter in the wilds of an Alaska fjord chasing herring in constant darkness. - Barbara Block

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