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The great white shark is arguably the world's largest-known extant macropredatory fish, and is one of the primary predators of marine mammals, such as pinnipeds and dolphins. The great white shark is also known to prey upon a variety of other animals, including fish, other sharks, and seabirds. It has only one recorded natural predator, the orca.
A great white shark swims amid a school of fish off the coast of southern Australia. Unprovoked shark bite numbers have been down this year, according to Dr. Gavin Naylor, the director of the ...
The reality is that humans are a bigger threat to sharks than they are to us. Sharks are apex predators that keep biodiversity balanced by maintaining the species below them in the food chain.
Most of the sharks spotted in the area are juveniles — despite their size, the great whites are only up to about 6 years old and very inexperienced hunters.
Out of more than 500 shark species, only three are responsible for a double-digit number of fatal, unprovoked attacks on humans: the great white, tiger, and bull. [6] The oceanic whitetip has probably killed many more shipwreck and plane crash survivors, but these are not recorded in the statistics. [7] Humans are not part of a shark's normal diet.
Even though great white sharks aren’t known to hunt people, attacks do happen. Four of the 10 fatal attacks in 2023 were done by great white sharks (one in California and three in Australia.)
Nurse sharks are an important species for shark research. [3] They are robust and able to tolerate capture, handling, and tagging extremely well. [4] As inoffensive as nurse sharks may appear, they are ranked fourth in documented shark bites on humans, [5] likely due to incautious behavior by divers on account of the nurse shark's calm ...
If you have swum in the ocean off the coast of Santa Barbara or San Diego recently, chances are you swam next to a young great white shark.