​SHARKS
Fish     -     Vertebrate     -     Carnivore
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FRILLED SHARK
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SAND TIGER SHARK
Male:  Bull
Female:  Shark
Young:  Cub
SHARKS
There are about 350 different types of shark.
  • ​The biggest sharks have no natural enemies.
  • Their enemy is man, who kills them for the fins
  • Sharks kill fewer than 100 people per annum, but humans kill about 100 million sharks in a year.
  • Have several rows of teeth.
  • The teeth are as hard as steel.
  • The dwarf shark is as small as your hand.
  • Whale sharks are the biggest.
  • If sharks stop moving, they sink.
  • Have remained unchanged for about 400 million years.
  • Can smell a single drop of blood in the ocean from up to 3 miles away.
  • Can produce 20,000 teeth in its lifetime.
  • To immobilise a Hammerhead Shark for 15 minutes, turn it over and tickle its tummy.
  • The Great White Shark can go as long as 3 months without eating.
  • The Great White Shark has approximately 3,000 teeth.
  • The pregnancy of the 'frilled shark' lasts for three years - the longest in nature.
  • The best way to repel a shark is to wave the rotting flesh from one of its dead relatives at it.
  • A rare single-eyed albino shark was found by a fisherman in Mexico.
  • Are immune to all known diseases.
  • Don't have any bones - the skeleton is made entirely of cartilage.
Sharks kill fewer than 10 people in a year ... and yet, man kills about 100 million sharks in a year!
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TIGER SHARK