not sad. grim.

by:// jake - Oct 22nd 2008

Depression is nothing to laugh at!

by:// DP - Oct 24th 2008

Although Sharks are preditors, I also think everything has inner feelings to me he does look sad...............by me

by:// sonia - Nov 2nd 2008

Sharks are predators, but that has nothing to do with their feelings and emotions. All living creatures display emotions, no matter how rudimentarily their brain over time. Creatures can display facial emotions as well as "emote" them. One of younger sisters wrote a short story befitting her third grade class. My mother has History and English Ph.D.'s and read Killian's story, as did the rest of us and we loved it. Her teacher "shredded" the based on things like "animals don't chirp and squeak and when they feel safe and happy, they don't purrr and twittter in the presence of their young--the witch destroyed Killian's story and her self-esteem, too. The woman's assessment of animals, other than us, is that they are all ignorant, smelly, useless and here at our beck and call for breakfast, lunch, dinner, the chairs we sit on, and everything else.

I was writing a paper for behavioural psych (I am a 17 yr old pre-med student at GW Univ); I talked to my professor and told him I needed to use his paper for a bit of a different goal and would it be possible to write one paper and address both the issues. I briefly explained the outline and he was more than willing and he and his GTAs provided everything I needed: I not only had a written paper, but I had a complete media coverage re-enactment.

My father is a surgeon at GW Hospital; he began in trauma with his education at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, but his interests expanded. Daddy's hobby is showing horses--hunters and jumpers. One Saturday, he took a green horse out for practice. Dad is an experienced rider of 45 years (he is 49) but he but he didn't come home when he said. Our Master of Horses turned out Daddy's personal favourite hunter/jumper Valkyrie. It was only a matter of minutes before Valkyrie returned to the barn, trumpeting and neighing, whirling around and dancing on his back feet, his voice raising assistence.

We threw halters on and rode bareback down to the lower training pasture. We live out in the "suburbs" on the banks of the Potomac River--white horse fences, trees, close enough to DC to enjoy all the amenities like the hospitals and cultural centers, far enough away to feel "out in the country". We have no neighbours. A group of adults biking passing through decided to have a little fun throwing rocks at a high-spirited show horse. There was a good-sized cut on the flank of Brandenburg, two rails were down on one fence, and, he took down another until he settled down from the pain..

Daddy had been thrown and was face-down in the grass and heather. He had fractured ribs, a fractured collarbone, fractured ankle and pelvis. The jumps ranged in height from 3 1/2 feet to 7 feet. While he was in the hospital, his horse Valkyrie "Walked the floor". That was the most miserable horse I believe I have ever seen in my life. He didn't want to eat, he didn't want to sleep, he walked around in circles.

Our veterinarian checked him out for the possibility anything at all physical and said "Valkyrie is suffering from depression. I will try my best to treat him within our limited means." Daddy's recovery---and Valkyrie's---were interdependent upon one another. But both are in absolutely 100% wonderful health today.

by:// Dylan Kyle - Nov 22nd 2008

Dylan, Yours was the greatest comment anyone has ever left on any of my posts. Please leave more. Thank you.

by:// Jordan - Nov 26th 2008

DYLAN:
DID YOU REALLY NEED SIX PARAGRAPHS OF NONSENCE BEFORE MAKING YOUR POINT? THE LAST PARAGRAPH WOULD HAVE SUFFICED, BUT NOW I KNOW YOUR AGE, WHERE YOU GO TO SCHOOL, BS ABOUT YOUR PROFESSER AND THE FACT THAT YOU CALL YOUR FATHER 'DADDY'. WAAAAY TO MUCH INFORMATION.

by:// LAUREN - Dec 30th 2008

Lauren,
Rude unhappy, miserable, people like you are why America is the way it is. Jelousy because you probably live in a trailer, and this young girl is actually doing something for herself as a pre-med student. She's trying to make society a better place by making humanity understand that we're living in the animal's world, not vis versa. Quite frankly she can write a whole page if she likes, becasue the story, whether long or short, is still moving!!!

by:// Yuri - Jan 29th 2009

He looks lonely: the most deadly kind of sad.

by:// Jessica - Apr 22nd 2009