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What creature is greatest killer to ever live? Which is responsible for the most deaths and haunts the most nightmares? What monster should we most fear?

Spiders give us the creeps.

Rats repulse us.

But when it comes to your worst nightmare, there’s no competition - something lurking in the shadows. Especially if it might eat you alive.

Thanks to ‘Jaws’, one creature above all others haunts that nightmare: the Great White Shark. And what a monster it is -

• 2000lb (900kg) 
• 20 feet long (6m) 
• 70 razor-sharp teeth

The ultimate mindless, monstrous killing machine. And it’s waiting in the watery shadows just for you!

Not that it’s the only man-eater - Tiger Sharks and Bull Sharks have killed more Americans in the last 30 years than even the mighty Great White.

So to risk being eaten by these monsters… well, you’d have to be absolutely crazy!

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There are pros and cons with everything so surely extinction has an upside!

Most of us hope for happiness, success, companionship, health… We welcome improvement to our lot and avoid anything that threatens our dreams. Of course, it’s great to get what we want when we want it, but shouldn’t we question the cost more often than we do?

Whether it’s made from precious metals, has designer labels, or is as mundane as the gossip-filled magazine, most of what we ‘can’t live without’ is just utter crap without which our lives would be equally fulfilled.

And to make all this crap we destroy the world.

Whether it’s deforesting the Amazon in Brazil to graze cows for burgers or flooding ancient valleys in China for hydroelectric power, we don’t just exploit the world but beat the living crap out of it till it gives us what we want. (Note, that’s what we ‘want’, not what we ‘need’!)

Let’s face it, if the earth was a child it would’ve been taken into care decades ago.

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Is there anything more wonderful than inter-species love?

Man/woman love is so overrated (as is obvious from the 50% divorce rate).

Isn’t it time Man embraced the animal in himself and in everything around him to develop an affinity with nature?

But before anyone scampers to their local park to pork a poodle, ask yourself one question - are you truly ready for everything inter-species love entails?If so, read on.

If not, skip upsetting yourself, dash to the comments section, and register your outrage.

But whatever you do… don’t continue reading.

Really. Don’t.

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Global warming, endangered species, violence, disease, poverty, hunger, exploitation… Isn’t there ever any good news?

You ever ask that? I’m betting you do. And I’m betting you’re asking it more and more often, these days. Just like I am. But relax, you won’t be asking it today - to launch this blog on a positive note, here are some of the top ‘good news’ stories from the past year that probably sneaked in under your radar:

10	Long endangered and with only 1,400 left in the wild, India’s tigers are to be protected through a $150 million project funded by the Indian government.
9	Zoologist Andrew Gray discovered that the tree frog Isthomhyla Rivularis is not extinct, as was claimed, but still happily scampering about the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve of Costa Rica.
8	Mexican president Felipe Calderon gave an extra $4.6 million funding to the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. (You’ve probably seen this place on TV - forest glades plastered with butterflies that have migrated 3,000 miles from the U.S. and Canada.)
Miguel Tovar / Associated Press
7	Federal Judge Cooper, U.S. Magistrate Laporte, and finally a Federal Court of Appeals all ruled against the U.S. Navy and President Bush so protecting whales from injury by navy sonar in waters off California, Hawaii, the Galapagos, the Great Barrier Reef…
6	The Congolese government set aside 12,000 square miles of rainforest for the Bonobo - one of our closest relatives - of which there might be as few as 5,000 left.
(You’d think the little fella would be a bit happier at that news, wouldn’t you?)

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