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Show Sharks Swallow Their Young. There Is a belief among fishermen and Hallurh Hint tbe mother shark is able to protect her young when In danger by opening her mouth and letting let-ting them hwltn down her throat. Many naturalists dispute the belief, but others uphold It. Living )oung sharks hae been found in the stomach stom-ach of large sharks after" the latter bae been killed, but It Is not proved thnt tbey were swallowed for the sake of protection. At port Royal, Jamaica, In 1901, a white shark over twenty feet long wbh captured by the sailors of tbe fehlp Urgent. When It was dragged on deck and cut open, no fewer than twenty-two young ones were found In Its stomach, most of them nlhe. Many other Incidents of the same kind are on record. |