Our Shark Awareness Day celebrity is a blue shark swimming in the cold waters off Cork, Ireland. The inspiration for its name comes from the blue shark’s back color, not its mood. It’s currently listed as ‘near threatened’—a status all too common for sharks today. Why celebrate an apex predator that most humans associate with horror movies? Because without sharks acting as population control on other marine life, the world’s oceans would be a very different place. Blue sharks eat a lot of squid and fish, and like land predators, help to keep their prey from overpopulation. Mother Nature keeps us in a delicate balance, so it’s important that we don’t accidentally remove a vital member of that system… even if that creature seems scary to most of us.
Does this shark have an Irish accent?
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Preveli Gorge
-
Art and soul
-
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
-
World Rivers Day
-
Badlands National Park turns 44
-
Angkor, Cambodia
-
It’s Napping Day
-
It s truffle season here in the Dordogne Valley
-
A bird of beauty
-
Go Fly a Kite Day
-
Happy Easter!
-
Giving Tuesday
-
Hollywood s big night
-
Staring down winter
-
It s International Jazz Day
-
From the mind of Frank Gehry
-
Defying gravity on a swing ride
-
Museum Mile Festival
-
Baddest of the badlands
-
Dark Sky Week
-
Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia
-
Green is the new black
-
The circular castle of Cornwall
-
A lunar lantern celebration
-
Lakeside serenity in Finland
-
Roman bridge of Córdoba, Spain
-
The most wonderful day of the year. Period.
-
Hemakuta Hill, Hampi, India
-
A legend and a legendary home
-
Swinging into International Jazz Day