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Fintastic Friday: Giving Sharks a Voice - May
Fri, May 10, 2024

Fintastic Friday: Giving Sharks a Voice

Fantastic Friday: Giving Sharks a Voice is an annual worldwide celebration created to raise public awareness of sharks and similar fish. The subclass is called Elasmobranchs. In addition to sharks, it includes sawfish, stingrays and skates. These are unique inhabitants of the ocean world, the extinction of which we cannot allow to happen. The holiday is celebrated every second Friday in May.

History

The story of Fantastic Friday: Giving Sharks a Voice begins in 1995, when it was created by While Time. Its head is a woman named Ruth Musgrave. The main goal of the organization is to introduce children to the ocean world.

According to Musgrave, children are great advocates for the world of sharks and other such representatives. Children are very sensitive and emotional, so their familiarity with the ocean world and the problems that arise there will give an excellent return. As adults, these children will already be aware of the problems that exist and will be able to find effective methods of solving them. Thus, all Elasmobranchians will be safe!

Interesting facts

  • Sharks have a unique adaptive capacity. When there is a lack of oxygen, part of the brain shuts down and the fish goes into a state of peculiar anabiosis, when activity is minimal.
  • The structure of sharks’ eyes includes both lower and upper eyelids. However, these fish never blink.
  • Seahorses are a unique animal because the offspring here are not carried by females, but by males. This is the only animal species where such a system is observed.

How to celebrate

Explore more information about sharks and other members of Elasmobranchia that day. Introduce children to the world of sharks by talking about the features, the dangers they face, and their importance to nature in general.

Tell about the holiday in social networks. Ask users if they have ever met a shark in real life. What were their impressions?

When is Fintastic Friday: Giving Sharks a Voice celebrated in 2024?

Fintastic Friday: Giving Sharks a Voice is observed the second Friday in May.

Observations

Weekday Month Day Year
Friday May 10 2024
Friday May 9 2025

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