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Mote Marine and the Shark Lady
1955
Sarasota, Florida
Will Pittenger · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Eugenie Clark started a one-room laboratory on Cape Haze with a bench and a boat, and proved sharks could be trained to press a target for food, dismantling the idea that they were mindless. She dived with them for sixty years, described new species, and worked out that the Moses sole secretes a natural shark repellent. The lab she founded is now the main authority on Florida's red tide.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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