"In South Africa, I was doing an aerial survey of Wales".
That is what I heard conservationist Mark Carwardine say on this morning’s Radio 4 programme In Living Memory.
But I was simply momentarily confused, my mind automatically linking the idea of surveys with areas of land, & thus with that well known unit of measurement, an area the size of Wales.
In reality it was whales of which he spoke, confusingly, in a programme which was actually about the disproportionate terror we have of sharks.
To prove that sharks are really not that dangerous, he quoted some great stats. My favourite – an American is 25 times more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than by a shark.
Links
BBC Radio 4: In Living Memory - Sharks
[PDF]Mark Carwardine
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