Pre-industrial emblem
48Heraldry, materia medica or first-fish law met the great white shark before film.
Great white shark culture is local: the same silhouette is a licence in one country and a logo in another.
Status bars are editorial -- they track how loudly this type spoke in English-language media and law, not a best-species score.
Status through time
Industrial take
62Canneries, ivory, longlines or shikar scaled the take.
Cinema and logo
65A film, book or NGO mark often outran the field paper.
Statute and listing
72ESA, CITES, IWC or national parks made the type a legal object.
Live-cam and tourism
55Streams, jeeps and auctions are the present tense of attention.
Portrayals
Novel1974
Benchley Jaws invented a revenge animal the field did not recognise.
Film1975
The mechanical shark set beach-policy weather for a generation.
Tag map2012-
OCEARCH made individuals into browser characters.
Magazine still2000s
False Bay breach photos became the default hunt image.
Obituary activism1990s-2006
Benchley later essays treated the novel as a debt.
Town news2010s
Cape Cod closures treated a returning predator as a novel emergency.
Rituals
Cage-dive briefings
Gansbaai and Guadalupe operators script a safety talk that is also a brand.
Seal-count dawns
Farallon observers still time whites to elephant-seal seasons.
App-track fandom
Named-tag followers treat pings as a serial, not a paper.
Sayings
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