Great white sharks

What is the great white sharks

classification?• Kingdom Animalia

• Phylum Chordata

• Class Chondrichthyes

• Order Lamniformes

• Family Lamnidae

• Genes Carcharodon

• Species carcharias

How big is a great white shark

Great whites are the largest predatory fish on Earth. They grow to an average of 15 feet (4.6 meters) in

length, though specimens exceeding

20 feet (6 meters) and weighing up to

5,000 pounds (2,268 kilograms) have been

recorded.

Where do they live• Western Indian Ocean:

South Africa, Seychelles Islands, Red Sea.

• Western Pacific: Siberia (Russia), Japan, the Koreas, China, Bonin Islands, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia (Queens land, New South Wales, Victoria,Tasmania, South and Western Australia), New Zealand, New Caledonia.

• Central Pacific: Marshall Islands, Hawaiian Islands. Eastern Pacific: Gulf of Alaska to Gulf of California; Panama to Chile.

• Mostly in South Africa.

What's there habitat

• The great white shark is found mostly in temperate seas throughout the world's oceans. It makes infrequent visits to cold waters and has been recorded off Alaska and Canada.

Are they endangered

• According to the IUCN red list the Great White Shark is listed as vulnerable.

• Sharks are decreasing in numbers because of a Asia delicacy known as sharks fin soup.

How do they reproduce • There isn't much known

about how the Great White Shark reproduces. Recently scientists were able to study a pregnant Great White Shark. It is believed that the Great White Sharks breed by internal fertilization and that the young sharks eat other fertilized eggs while growing inside the mother shark. New information indicates that there are 9 - 11 young sharks in a litter. There is no direct evidence to support these theories.

Do Great whites give parental care

• Great Whites do not give there young any parental care. They do this because if the stayed with there babies eventually they would eat them.

How long does a Great White live

• Great White Sharks can live up to a 100 years.

• It isn't known yet if there is a life expectancy difference between a male and female Great White Shark.

• There has only been one successful great white in captivity so it is unknown if there life expectancy is different in captive.

Do Great Whites have seasonal

patterns• Great Whites have lots of

seasonal patterns. They go as far as California to Hawaii

What is the Great Whites diet

• Young Great Whites eat fish, rays and other smaller sharks. Adult Great Whites eat larger prey like sea lions, seals, small whales and dolphins, otters, and sea turtles. They will also eat the carcasses of other animals. Great White sharks have to eat about every two months.

Do Great Whites have predators

• The only known predators to the Great White is humans and killer whales.

• Humans kill about 73 million sharks each year and has put them on the endangered list.

Are humans scared of Great White

Sharks• Humans are scared of sharks over all because of there reputation.

• Shark fin soup has dropped the number of Great Whites traumatically.

Fun fact• You are 53 more times likely to be killed by a bee than a Great white shark.

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