Hypothesis: I will learn more about great white sharks Taxonomy The Great White Shark or Animalia Chordata Vertebrata Chrondrichthyes Elasmobranchii Lamniformes Lamnidae Carchardon C. carcharias is a marine predator. Carolus Linnaeus gave the shark it's first scientific name, Squalus carcharias in 1758. Later it was given its current name Carchardon C. carcharias by Sir Andrew Smith. Carchardon comes from the word karcharos which means sharp or jagged in Greek and odous which means tooth. Range Great white sharks live anywhere where water temperatures are between 54 degrees fahrenheit and 75 degrees fahrenheit. One of the densest populations is found in Dyer Island, South Africa. Great white sharks tend to be found in the presence of thick blubbery marine mammals such as seals and sea lions. Great white sharks are not just a coastal species. They have been found in the open ocean at depths down to 3,900 feet. Recents studies have shown a Great White migrate from South Africa to Australia in 9 months. Scientist are not sure why they make this 12,000 mile journey but it could be because of seasonal mating or feeding. Body …show more content…
The dorsal half of their body is light grey that fades to a pale white on its ventral side. This makes it hard to spot by there prey. Great White sharks have two dorsal fins. One on its midsection and another smaller one behind it. That is followed by its coddle fin directly one the end of its tail. On the ventral side it has an anal fin and a pectoral fin. On the sides of its body there are pectoral
The Great Shark debate – to cull or not to cull, has been at the forefront of the minds of conservationists, as well as the general population for many decades now. The opinions of everyone are divided, according to their personal experiences, and views on what is right and wrong for the environment.
The Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and species for the Bull Shark are as follows: Animalia, Chordata, Chondrichthyes, Carcharhiniformes, Carcharhinidae leucas (Simpfender & Burgess). The taxonomy of every living thing is different, so the classification of the Bull Shark is the one way worldwide to know exactly what animal is being referred to because one animal may have many different common names. Carcharhinus leucas is referred to by many different common names around the world for example the spanish it Tiburon Sarda, the french call it Requin Bouledogue, in Africa they refer to it as Van Rooyen's Shark, in Australia it is referred to as the Swan River Whaler, and that is only a few of the Bull Sharks many common names (Curtis).
The Carcharhinus leucas commonly called the "bull shark" is a very unique shark. The bull shark can live in both salt water and fresh water but is commonly found along the Mississippi River and around Nicaragua. The bull sharks has a very blunt rounded nose giving it a bullish type of appearance thus giving it the name bull shark. The sharks are a dark black to a light grey with a white underbelly. Bull sharks can grow to be about 350 cm long and weigh around 230 kilograms. Bull sharks also tend to have smaller eyes compared to many other sharks which indicates that the bull sharks have limited vision. The bull sharks have triangular teeth like the great white shark (one of the bull sharks cousins). The bulls teeth are heavily serrated and are about 1.5 inches long which makes it easy to tear apart the flesh of their prey.
This image is what a majority of people believe to be the shark. They believe it to be the bloodthirsty sea monster that appears in countless works of literature and films, but science says otherwise. The classic picture painted by the minds of sailors returning from years at sea come from imagination and sharks’ violent methods of hunting and mating. Sharks fear humans as much as humans fear sharks, and most sharks, particularly the “man-eating” great whites, only bite humans because they mistake surfers for seals. In earlier times, the ocean was a source of mystery and adventur...
The great white shark is a very interesting animal. They get their names from their appearance. The great white shark is very big and has a blue stomach. The great white shark can be found in the pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. The number of great white sharks in the United States and in the world is unknown because it is too hard to keep track of all of them. They live in salt water and do not claim territories.
He wanted to better understand things about great whites such as their way of communication, their habitat, and how they use their instincts to figure out what is prey and what is not. Because Jaws gave him “access to all the scientists and environmentalists, and brought him closer to the ocean,” he was able to do just that (Roberts). Peter Benchley spent months, from the Southern Ocean off Australia to the southeastern tip of the African continent, expanding his knowledge on great white sharks. The more Benchley learned during his exploration, the more he “realized how little is really known about great whites” (Benchley). However, Peter Benchley managed to successfully campaign for the protection of the shark making sure that society knew that “these creatures have been responsible for only seventy-four deaths in the past one hundred years” (Roberts). He worked hard not only to prove the great white sharks’ innocence, but to make society aware of their behavior. Benchley made people aware of his newfound knowledge. In doing so, it was stated for the public to know that these specific sharks mistake human for its normal prey, and that is where some of the great white shark attacks come from. The Jaws’ author cleared the name for the animal that one of his characters describes as “an impossibly perfect piece of machinery” (Benchley 121). Peter Benchley exposed facts about the great white shark that helped people learn that the sharks really do not impose that much of a threat to society so no harm should be done against
Well if you happen to have no idea or clue as into what I’m talking about, which I seriously doubt that’s would be the case. Ever saw the movie Jaws and all of the subsequent directed by Steven Spielberg, then you definitely have a great picture of what the Great Whites are and what they are capable of doing to a human and other sea animal, this also label them one of the most dangerous wild life. The Great White also goes by these other names White Pointer or White Death is from a large species of lamniform shark. If you ever trying to locate on...
Great white Sharks are unique beautiful creatures of the ocean. Sharks have survived in the ocean for 450 million years. The scientific name for Great whites is
The great white shark has 77 rows of 300 teeth. It has a 600 pound bite and it weighs 2,400 thousand pound. It can grow up to be 31 feet and one of the biggest des creatures. It would usually be 100 meters down and likes to eat smaller fish but it might come up and want something bigger and mistake a human for a fish.
Thesis: Sharks should be conserved because they are an important part of the ocean, attacks are often incidental, and human behavior influences the behavior of sharks.
The orders have distinguishing characteristics that fit in each. The Squantiformes normally have flat bodies that are ray-like with mottled dorsal surfaces. These sharks have a short terminal mouth, which is armed with small impaling teeth. They also have a caudal fin, which has a lower lobe that is longer than the upper lobe. Their pectoral fins extend forward over the ventrally directed gills. The Pristiophormes have more of an elongated snout, which is saw-like and edged with slender, needle-sharp lateral teeth. They have two dorsal fins and no anal fin. They use short transverse mouths and small cuspidate holding teeth in both jaws. Squaliformes have no anal fin as well, but their snout is not elongated, but is somewhat long. Many have powerful cutting teeth in both jaws. In some species these razor sharp teeth are in the lower jaw only and the upper teeth serve to hold the food.
Most people think that sharks are large, fast-swimmers, and savage predators. This is true of some species and groups should be interested of the appealing aspects of biology found within it: all sharks have an excellent sense of smell; some can detect electrical discharges; some sharks give birth to one of the
The morphology of whale sharks is mostly similar to aquatic fish species, but many specific traits help differentiate them from the rest. Whale sharks are the largest fish in the world and can reach a size of around 20 meters (Martins, C., and C. Knickle). This is often compared to the size of a school bus. The shark has a very large transverse mouth. They have 5 very large gill slits and have a larger first dorsal fin compared to the second one (Whale Shark). They have a distinctive spotted “checkerboard” pattern with stripes (Martins, C., and C. Knickle). It is not exactly known why they have this specific body marking. It is believed that the body markings act as a camouflage. The strange thing about whale sharks is that they have 300 rows of teeth that play no role in feeding (Martins, C., and C. Knickle).
Leopard sharks (Triakis semifasciata) inhabit the Pacific coast of the North America. In Andrew Nosal’s study, the coast of La Jolla, California was chosen for the study. The location has previously been documented for attracting large numbers of leopard sharks between June and December and will likely facilitate the capturing process (Nosal, Caillat, Kisfaludy, Royer, & Wegner, 2014). Moreover, for consistency, it appears best to conduct the experiment near the
One particularly interesting sea creature is the whale shark, formally known as Rhincondon typus it was first discovered in 1828 by Andrew Smith (Rowat 2012). This large fish is found globally in warm tropical oceans and prefers to stay within 200 meters of the ocean’s surface in waters ranging from 4.2 to 28.7 degrees Celsius (Stevens 2006). This creature can be found all across the globe in any warm tropical seas. Aggregations of whale sharks have been seen off the coast of Australia at times, although it is primarily a creature of solitude. Whale sharks are filter feeders that consume plankton as well as small fish and are harmless to humans. The whale shark is a species with a fascinating ecology, life history, behavior, anatomy