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May 2022
29m 48s

How Do You Train a Shark?

Jennifer Swanson/Jeff Gonyea
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It's Shark Week here on Solve it for Kids! We are thrilled to have Gretchen Burson, an Aquarist II at the Georgia Aquarium chat with us about how she TRAINS sharks!! Don't miss this amazing talk about these beautiful and fantastic apex predators. 
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