Animals: Sharks by Grey

Fresh-water anglers find exciting and beautiful the sight of a 12-in. trout leaping clear of a mountain stream. That seems tame to Novelist-Fisherman Zane Grey. He has seen monsters long and heavy and fierce as tigers hurtle themselves 30 ft. above the deep sea. In the current Natural History magazine, out last week, he told about them in the first account ever published of a shark that leaps when hooked.

Scientists call the shark Isuris, most laymen call it "mackerel shark" (because it eats mackerel and looks a little like one) and New Zealand...

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