Monday, 1 July 2013

A Turn in the Tide for Sharks and Their Public Image | Surprising Science

A Turn in the Tide for Sharks and Their Public Image | Surprising Science: "Your lifetime risk of suffering an attack from one of these predators is pretty small: 1 in about 3,700,000. Compare that to your odds of dying in a car accident (1 in 84), a fall (1 in 218), a lightning strike (1 in 79,746) or fireworks (1 in 340,733). Yet many people have an irrational fear of sharks, born from movies like Jaws."

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