| Sharkins can be found in most of the worlds oceans. Sharkins are extremely aggresive and will do anything to defend their territory. They are blue-gray in color and while some super-Sharkins in areas rich with schools of fish and red seaweed with its growth vitamins grow to the length of 5 or 6 feet, most sharkins reach a lengh of 4 or 4.5 feet as adults. They never sleep, although scientists have have recently discovered that they do dream, which allows their brains the necesary rest.
Sharkins hatch underwater, usually in the winter, and grow up swimming under the layer of ice, and feeding on small oceanic creatures that got frozen in the ice. By the time spring comes, sharkis are grown enough to be able to pursue and attack moving prey. They have four paws and a tail that make them look like the friendly octopurse plant that is the same color of glacial blue, but don't be fooled. Sharkins can remain motionless in water to lure their prey, but they can also glide through water, reaching the speed of 20 miles per hour. They have two rows of razor-sharp teeth, sixteen to a row, that allow them to chew their food with ease.
Sharkins are sometimes referred to as "rhinoceruses of the ocean" because of a single horn that protrudes from their forehead, curving backwards. The horn is made from cartilage and helps them achieve speed and buyouancy when moving through water. When they have to defend their territory, they battle other sharkins, literally "locking horns." They establish superiority by breaking their opponent's horn. A sharkin with a broken horn cannot fend for himself well, and cannot claim and defend its own territory, so it becomes a nomadic creature, feeding on scraps left behind by other sharkins and wintering in inhospitable water inlets abandoned by sharkins who have moved on to better pastures.
In order to strengthen and protect their horns, sharkins find scrap metal from shipwrecks and ocean debris and make protective metal covers for their horns. This makes the horns very hard to break, and turns them into feared weapons.
It is hard to make a sharkin into a pet in the conventional sense, but children in fishing villages by the seaside sometimes bond with a particular Sharkin. They feed the sharkins fish tails, and sharkins may become fiercely protective of their human pals. Sharkin specialists believe this is an extension of their general territoriality. Shakins will let their "owners" into their territories, and if a child befriends a sharkin, their parents never need to worry about the child being attacked or hurt by any sea creatures, as long as they stay in "their" Sharkin's zone of water.
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