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Nicole Kidman" <scientologymakesmehot@nicebuns.com> wrote in
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Nicole Kidman's shark namesake swims long path

Randolph E. Schmid
Associated Press
Oct. 7, 2005 12:00 AM

A great white shark named Nicole logged more than 12,000 miles
swimming from Africa to Australia and back, according to a report

that

shows the first proof of a link between the two continents' shark
populations, researchers say.

A second report details the movement of dozens of salmon sharks

from

summer waters near Alaska to warmer winter quarters off Hawaii and
Baja California.

"Sharks have home ranges that are at the scale of ocean basins,"

said

researcher Barbara A. Block of Stanford University. She added that
conservation management of sharks such as the white shark and

salmon

shark will require international cooperation.

Tracking a shark from Africa to Australia "is one of the most
significant discoveries about white shark ecology and suggests we
might have to rewrite the life history of this powerful fish," said
Ramon Bonfil, lead author of that study.

Both reports appear in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

Nicole was tagged in November 2003 with a device that reports her
position. The researchers said the shark was named in honor of
Australian actress Nicole Kidman.

George H. Burgess, a shark expert at the Florida Museum of Natural
History, said while sharks are known to travel long distances, this
was the first evidence of movement between Australia and Africa.

"These are large animals that have the capability of making large
movements," he said.

Enric Cortes of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration's

Shark Population Assessment Group in Panama City, Fla., agreed this

is

the first direct evidence of a connection between African and
Australian white sharks.

Using satellites to track sharks is new technology that may provide
new perspective on their movements, he said.

Peter Klimley, a shark expert at the University of California,

Davis,

called a trip of that length "amazing." He said there have been
genetic indications that these two shark groups might be connected,
"but that's not the same as showing actual movement."

Bonfil, of the Bronx, N.Y.-based Wildlife Conservation Society,

said

he "suspected that these sharks could be doing these kinds of

travels

... but there was previously no proof of this. Everybody thought

they

were mostly coastal in behavior."

A satellite tracking device temporarily attached to Nicole

documented

her 99-day swim from South Africa to Australia. About six months
later, she was identified from photos back off the coast of South
Africa.

Some 24 other white sharks tagged off South Africa engaged in
wide-ranging coastal migration, but only Nicole headed out to sea.
Nonetheless, Bonfil said, "I don't think we got one in a million."

Block's group tagged 48 salmon sharks in Alaskan coastal waters and
tracked them by satellite from 2002 to 2004.

They found some sharks remained in the North Pacific all year,

eating

salmon in summer and herring in winter, while others swam south to
Hawaii or Baja California in winter. As they swam south, they dove
deeper into cooler waters, the researchers found.

"The shark heart slows down in the cold, just as our own heart

would,"

Block said. "But ... where our heart would simply stop, the salmon
shark keeps on ticking."

The researchers found the hearts had high concentrations of

proteins

that control uptake of calcium ions, which help maintain the

heart's

rhythmic contractions.


i will devour you

with my insatiable appetite

for sex as i

prowl the deep

for hot mates

nicole xoxoooOX