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Great White Sharks - Essay

Great White Sharks

The Great White shark, also known as the white death, is considered the most
dangerous shark in the waters. The Great White has a conical instead of a flattened
snout, black eyes, and large, serrated, arrowhead-shaped teeth. The upper and lower
lobes of the tail are almost equal in size, and the body is blue or brown-gray, not white,
except on its belly. The Great White is found in temperate waters throughout the worlds

oceans, and it is important, though not common, predator in California’s coastal habitat.

The waters off central California offer a rich bounty of food for white sharks, and

every summer and fall, they actively feed in nearshore areas. The Farallan ...

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numbers in the Australian waters.

The great white is a very agile killer that hunts mostly anything in the ocean. They

are carnivorous and usually prey on sick or injured prey. Just one drop of blood can make

the shark go into a feeding frenzy. It is not made to swim fast and its usual speed is

fifteen miles per hour. It migrates south to warmer waters to give birth to six to nine

pups. The only way it can defend itself is by using its mouth and its razor-sharp teeth.

One of the most largest specimens caught was off of Mantauk, Long Island, and

New York, in 1964; it was seventeen and a half feet long and weighed an estimated 4500

pounds. Between 1916 and 1969, there were thirty-two attacks on swimmers, resulting in

thirteen deaths attributed to great white sharks. On three occasions white sharks were

reported to have attacked boats, sinking one of them, a dory, off Cape Breton, Nova

Scotia, Canada.

The main cause of sharks to ...

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Added: 10/30/2006 07:46:10 PM
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