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JK115 Great White Shark

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Description

Family: Lamnidae Species: Soparfosht feeshi

Did you know that Great White Sharks are the largest predatory animals in the sea? The Great White Shark is very large in size, and they can be as big as 90 feet long. That's as big as 2 school buses! However, on average, they grow on an average of 70 feet.They can be dark blue, brown light grey, or even black, but they are usually a grey-ish and white color.

The Great White Shark usually has scratch marks on its snout as battle marks with fights with its prey. On average, they loose about 100,000 teeth in their lifespan. Its prey includes sea lions, seals, small toothed whales, and carrion, or dead flesh. They also love to eat sea turtles even as a small snack.

People say that shark attacks are often a mistake, however, the Great White Shark attacks are not unusual. They usually attack people when they are provoked, or when they are bored. Sharks' mentalities are that they are the strongest animal in the world, and they look down on everything else. Including humans.

Sharks usually fight for food because they feel big and strong and feel good about themselves. </range id="462418206_4">When they want to mate, which is usually at the age of 20 years old, <range type="comment" id="462418206_3">they slap the water with their tails as a notice for female Great White Sharks. </range id="462418206_3">

The Great White Sharks are an endangered species because they often get mistakenly caught be fishermen, and choke to death in nets. <range type="comment" id="461086628_1">Even thought they have a life span of 100 years, they often die at the young age of 35.</range id="461086628_1">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Habitat

They live everywhere in the bodies of water, but near Antarctica. <range type="comment" id="461077600_5">There has been some sightings of them in the Hudson River and some Great Lakes.</range id="461077600_5">

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<span style="color: #cb1010; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Questions:

1) They can grow up to 90 feet long. a) true b) false  2) They weigh more than a pickup truck. a) true b) false 3) They have terrible vision. a) true b) false  4) They are as curious as a cat. a) true b) false 5) they can reach speeds up to 135 miles per hour. a) true b) false

Interesting Facts


 * The meat is not recommended because it has high mercury levels
 * They can protect the front part of their eyeballs be flipping it backwards so the back gets affected, but not the front
 * They cannot be kept in an aquarium because they keep bumping their noses on the glass
 * On average, the consume 11 tons (22,000 lbs) of food in a year
 * They lose to Orcas (Killer Whales) in a battle
 * They can weigh up to 5,000 pounds
 * hey swim up to 135 miles per hour
 * There are 100-plus annual Great White Shark attacks and 70% are not fatal
 * Their body is streamlined
 * Water-dynamic
 * They can have up to 55,000 teeth at one time
 * Scientists say that there are only 10,000 Great White Sharks in the world
 * They can smell a seal colony 2 miles away

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