warm coastal waters of the eastern Atlantic and western Indo-Pacific. It
prefers shallow, murky environments with soft bottoms, and tends to roam
within a fairly localised area. With its bulky grey body, small eyes,
and short, blunt snout, the pigeye shark looks almost identical to (and
is often confused with) the better-known bull shark. The pigeye shark is
an apex predator that mostly hunts low in the water column. It has a
varied diet, consisting mainly of bony and cartilaginous fishes but also
including crustaceans, molluscs, sea snakes, and cetaceans. This species
gives birth to live young, with the developing embryos sustained to term
via a placental connection to their mother. Litters of three to thirteen
pups are born after a gestation period of nine or twelve months. Young
sharks spend their first few years of life in sheltered inshore habitats
such as bays. The pigeye shark's size and dentition make it potentially
dangerous, though it has not been known to attack humans. It is
infrequently caught by fisheries, which use it for meat and fins, and in
shark nets used to protect beaches.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeye_shark>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1509:
An estimated 10,000 people died in Constantinople due to an
earthquake so strong it was known as "the Lesser Judgement Day".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1509_Constantinople_earthquake>
1813:
War of 1812: American forces led by Oliver Hazard Perry
defeated the British on Lake Erie near Put-in-Bay, Ohio.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Erie>
1937:
Led by the United Kingdom and France, nine nations met in the
Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean
Sea.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyon_Conference>
1960:
Mickey Mantle hit what was originally thought to be the longest
home run in major league baseball, an estimated 643 feet (196 m).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mantle>
2007:
Nawaz Sharif, the current Prime Minister of Pakistan, returned
to the country after being ousted in a coup and exiled eight years
earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawaz_Sharif>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
variadic:
(Computing, mathematics, linguistics) Taking a variable number of
arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/variadic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Between too early and too late, there is never more than a
moment.
--Franz Werfel
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franz_Werfel>
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