The Great White
(Carcharadon Carcharias)
The Great
White shark is the biggest and most terrifying of all sharks. I
don't think that anyone knows how big it can become, but the largest
White shark that ever been captured measured over 6 meters in
length and weighed over 2600 kg, it was caught in a net outside
South Africa's coast. This animal is on the absolute top of the
foodchain and it has only one enemy, the humans. These magnificent
creatures are most common in waters near Australia, outside USA:s
coasts, South America and South Africa. The coast outside
California, USA, has the highest number of attacks by the Great
White. From year 1950 to 1982 there were 1.3 attacks each year
by this shark. Even though several millions of people take a
swim every day the sharkattacks are few in number, more people
get killed every year because of a mosquitobites. The Great
White´s natural food is seals, and sea-lions etc. When a White
shark is looking for food it swims several meters under the
surface and when it spots a seal it explodes in an attack to cause
so mutch injuries as possible to avoid the risk of getting
injured itself. Sometimes the victom may manage to escape even
with bad injuries, but it often leads to a certain death. The injuries
This pictures gives us an idea about how big the Great White really are. It isn´t strange that we fear this animal, perhaps more than any other creature. Imagine to be in that cage with this animal just outside......
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