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A juvenile whale shark is estimated to eat 21 kg (46 pounds) of plankton per day. [67] The BBC program Planet Earth filmed a whale shark feeding on a school of small fish. The same documentary showed footage of a whale shark timing its arrival to coincide with the mass spawning of fish shoals and feeding on the resultant clouds of eggs and sperm.
Hákarl (an abbreviation of kæstur hákarl [ˈcʰaistʏr ˈhauːˌkʰa (r)tl̥]), referred to as fermented shark in English, is a national dish of Iceland consisting of Greenland shark or other sleeper shark that has been cured with a particular fermentation process and hung to dry for four to five months. [1] It has a strong ammonia -rich ...
Blåhaj (stylised BLÅHAJ, Swedish pronunciation: [ˈbloːhaj], lit. 'blue shark'; colloquially anglicised as / ˈblɑːhɑːʒ /, / ˈblɑːhɑː / or / ˈbloʊhaɪ /) is a plush toy manufactured and sold by the Swedish company IKEA. Modelled after a blue shark and made of recycled polyester, the toy has gained prominence on social media as a ...
The basking shark is a ram feeder, filtering zooplankton, very small fish, and invertebrates from the water with its gill rakers by swimming forwards with its mouth open. A 5-metre-long (16 ft) basking shark has been calculated to filter up to 500 short tons (450 t) of water per hour swimming at an observed speed of 0.85 metres per second (3.1 ...
The whale shark is the largest species in this order, reaching up to 20 meters long when fully mature. [50] No other species in the order even approaches this size. The next largest species is the nurse shark ( Ginglymostoma cirratum ), which can grow up to 4.3 m (14 ft) across the disk and weighing more than 350 kg (770 lb).
The basking shark is the second largest living fish, after the whale shark, and the second of three plankton-eating sharks, the other two being the whale shark and megamouth shark. It is a cosmopolitan migratory species, found in all the world's temperate oceans.
"A lot of people think the sharks only eat the seals," he said, but pointed out they will also go after fish, so "any signs of activity, especially in the zones where we know we get a lot of shark ...
The megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) is a species of deepwater shark. Rarely seen by humans, it measures around 5.2 m (17 ft) long and is the smallest of the three extant filter-feeding sharks alongside the relatively larger whale shark and basking shark. According to Sharkman's World Organization a total of 286 specimens have been ...