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The great white shark (bottom) was originally considered an apex predator of the ocean; however, the orca (killer whale, top) has proven to be a predator of the shark. An apex predator, also known as a top predator or superpredator, is a predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own.
Carcharodon albimorsWhitley, 1939. The great white shark ( Carcharodon carcharias ), also known as the white shark, white pointer, or simply great white, is a species of large mackerel shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans. It is the only known surviving species of its genus Carcharodon.
White Shark Café. Coordinates: 23.37°N 132.71°W. The White Shark Café, between Baja California and Hawaii. The White Shark Café is a remote mid- Pacific Ocean area noted as a winter and spring habitat of otherwise coastal great white sharks . The area, halfway between Baja California and Hawaii, received its unofficial name in 2002 from ...
Several species are apex predators, which are organisms that are at the top of their food chain. Select examples include the bull shark, tiger shark, great white shark, mako sharks, thresher sharks, and hammerhead sharks. Sharks are caught by humans for shark meat or shark fin soup. Many shark populations are threatened by human activities.
Breton, a great white shark cruising the Florida coast, is 13 feet long and weighs nearly 1,500 pounds. No joke: 1,400-pound great white shark pings off Florida. His 'path' resembles shark drawing
The World Wildlife Fund reports the world’s great white shark population is at vulnerable status. The largest known predatory fish in the world, great white sharks can weigh upwards of 4,000 to ...
LeeBeth is a 14.1-foot, 2,600-pound female great white shark. On December 8, a satellite tag was placed on her by Captain Chip Michalove of Outcast Sport Fishing off the coast of South Carolina ...
The sharks there are at the top of the food chain, some longer than twenty feet, and they congregate 27 miles off the coast of San Francisco. After going through many restrictions and barriers, she manages to join a group of scientists studying predation patterns by great white sharks within the so-called Red Triangle. Commentary