Hottest June on record. Lower graph shows how extraordinarily anomalous the warming is for this time of year climate.copernicus.eu/tracki…

... whereas, for example, in the puma sequence in #sevenworldsoneplanet, the predator not only gets a cute name (Sarmiento) but also a heartrending back story of her struggle to feed her cubs in the face of insurmountable adversity. #predatortypecasting

... although it is fascinating to see that #BBC #sevenworldsoneplanet falls into the usual clichés with sharks (eery music/the "ruthless predator" that is "well able to pick off reef fish"; actually they have relatively low hunting success rates of 5-8% bit.ly/35npD3S)

No, @Daily_express those aren't great white sharks in Australia #sevenworldsoneplanet "filling their stomachs’ in brutal once in decade coastal onslaught"... they're actually whaler sharks. Ridiculously out of touch and inaccurate reporting @ipsonews bit.ly/34dmQtV

In the same week that great #hammerhead #sharks have been shown to be apex predators crucial to ecosystem function, don't forget you can still pick up some dried, very, very juvenile scalloped hammerheads, four for the price of $1.50, in your local market in #Madagascar...

Iceland demonstrating best-practice 1st world fisheries management: ensure your fisheries minister is ex-director of major fish company, bribe Namibian officials for access, oh and make sure a fifth of MPs own "stocks in stocks", i.e. fishing companies. bit.ly/2OiiY49

For those of you who have always fantasized about knowing that Kiss is playing "Love Gun" 10 metres above you while you dive with a carcharhinid

Stewart "#Sharknado" Lee

Finned sharks may "survive" (miraculously!) but... presumably they're having difficulty staying upright, making sudden turns, displaying dominance and mating, given that the dorsal fin plays a role in all of these things...

So in addition to having to deal with their guts having +mucus, +inflammation, +cell death and +permeability (which allows toxins to leach straight into bloodstream), fishes are also being “helped” by these bacteria to eek every last drop of goodness out of their plastic meals.

So many perks

Wow - despite the "Thames effect", humpbacks are doing the opposite of what many shark populations have done (>90% declines since 1950!)

Rousseau on #inourtime: "Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it... You are afraid to see him spending his early years doing nothing. What! is it nothing to be happy, nothing to run and jump all day?" Also Rousseau: abandons all 5 babies at orphanage.