Dear Prince,

When I was a kitten, I saw a movie about shark attacks. It made me nervous to go into the water.

I talked about that with my friend Nora Hickey. She’s a fish veterinarian at Washington State University.

She told me that sharks don’t eat people.

Many sharks can’t even bite. They have mouths adapted to sift sand or slurp up plankton.

Sharks that can bite don’t hunt humans. They eat prey with a thick fat layer like seals and sea lions. Muscly animals like birds, cats and people seem to taste bad to sharks.

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