Eureka Reporter | 1906-01-26 | Page 3 | Sharks Have Special Sense

SHARKS HAVE SPECIAL SENSE enables them to detect presence of carrion afar off it Is a curious thing and so far as present knowledge goes quite inex how a shark seems to have an unerring perception of the pres ence of carrion by virtue of what sense does he know that at a distance of perhaps a couple of miles there Is food to be had for the picking up it can hardly be sight and to say that it Is the sense of smell presupposes an olfactory apparatus of such marvelous delicacy that one good whiff from an average harness cask would surely burst the machinery for good and all and yet our shark will bolt a goodly lump of the gamiest salt pork without so much as a wink no it cannot be his nose which leads him now a theory has been put forward by naturalists that the shark possess es in common with the andes condor a special sense or instinct which Is denied to cleaner feeding animals the naturalist cannot explain this sense confesses in fact that he knows nothing about it but be can give it a name he calls it the car rion sense and with that name which of course explains nothing at all expects us to be satisfied