NATS 3200 Lecture 16: Lecture 16 – Sharks
15 Feb 2017
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Popularized by sushi, used to be used as dog food. Adaptive radiation in sharks many body types. Most of them kinda look like shark. Lemon shark is the prototypic look of a shark. Hammerhead sharks have eyes at the side of the flattened head. Thresher shark with a long upper lobe of the tail that can whip prey to stun them: hunt cooperatively such as wolves. Sawshark: uses the saw to wound the schools of fish, ventrally located mouth = feed at the bottom of the ocean. White shark the classic man eater but eats seals. Cookie cutter shark parasite that latches onto the sharks: feed off small pieces of flesh from big bodies of marine mammals. 5. 5m half of this length is the upper lobe of the tail: predator fish eater, can theoretically be a risk to humans. By 2001, only 13 fish of this species were seen overall.
