Is the biggest shark a predator or not?

Horror "Jaws" at one time shook the whole world. In it the main negative heroine is a huge shark-cannibal. A recent story related to the death of a young man riding on a blackboard, and at all led the entire population of the Earth in horror.

A huge evil shark, leaning out of the seawater, grabbed its zubes a board, having bitten off a piece from it and a part of a leg of the young man. The man died from the loss of blood, and his friend, who was his company, for a long time shook with fear, as he had to literally look into the eyes of this formidable creature.

But even the biggest shark predator is Great Whiteshark - it will not be senseless to attack a person. After all, to use homo sapiens as a food product, she will not: for her, he is too bony and stiff. Dine this monster prefers fish or seals, loves the meat of sea lions and turtles, does not disdain and other small sharks, as well as whale carcasses.

Another thing is that the biggest shark among predators- white - could be scared or nearby somewhere there could be an object of its hunting. In this case, the predator bites when attacked by someone who prevented it from hunting or frightened. Unfortunately, the victim subsequently almost always dies of pain and great blood loss.

But it should be noted that the number of victims,victims of shark teeth, account for only 33% of the deaths of human collisions with other dangers. But frozen in the eyes of horror adds a huge size of the monster, frightening kind of teeth of this predator.

The biggest white shark really issea ​​giants. The average length of her body is 4-5 meters, and the weight varies from 600 to 1200 kilograms! Once scientists have registered a large white shark, whose body reached 13 meters - a real giant fish!

But scientists are still arguing whether it is possible to relatethis specimen to the sight of large white sharks, leaning toward the fact that the largest shark seen off the coast of Cuba belonged to a completely different species and genus of fish. After all, huge sizes of the body reach also other sharks.

For example, the biggest shark in the world is the whale. Some of its individuals grow to 20 meters! However, the whale shark is not at all a predator, feeding exclusively on plankton. During feeding, the fish sucks in water and filters it with a special seedling machine, which is formed by gill arches. Such an adaptation is possessed only by one more living creature - a large-sized shark.

Despite their huge size, whale sharks- quite peaceful marine residents who do not even have teeth. They are apathetic, the speed of their movement does not exceed 5 kilometers per hour. The whale shark most often does not pay absolutely no attention to the divers, who, using this feature, touch the hulk, and some daredevils even ride on her back! That's the biggest shark, that's a miracle!

Slightly inferior to her in growth is another, the sametoothless, but huge fish - a giant or giant shark. It weighs about 5 tons. Giant sharks are a bit similar in appearance to whites: they have the same body shape, colors of some species of these fish are similar.

Probably, this fact for a long time served as the reasonfurious extermination of not only white sharks-predators, but also feeding on giant plankton. Today, the population of white sharks is only 3,500 individuals - they are on the verge of extinction. On a critical level, there are giant sharks.