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Is it true that there are more than 440 species of sharks?
Yes
What type of species is a shark?
Sharks are not a species, they are a superorder of fish called Selachimorpha, which comprises more than 500 known species.
How many breeds of shark are there?
Answer: Ther are approximately 440 different species of sharks divided across eight distinct orders. Examples of common sharks are great white sharks, tiger sharks, whale-sharks, dogfish, angel sharks and many others.
How many types of sharks are there?
352 species of sharks Funfact: tiger sharks attack people more than any other shark.
Are most species of sharks bigger than humans?
no
How many sharkes are there?
There are over 300 species of sharks, but some are becoming more and more endangered every second.
Are whale sharks large in size?
Whale sharks are the largest living species of fish: They can be over 10 metres long and weigh more than 20 tonnes.
How many gill slits do sharks have?
5 only two species have more than that six and sevegill sharks have well... 6 and 7 gills
What is a type of animal a shark eats?
Other sharks, orca whales (occasionally) and larger fish (depending on the size of the shark) may eat sharks but more often than not, sharks are not prey for other animals. This is particularly true of the larger or more aggressive species such as great white sharks, bull sharks, basking sharks and whale sharks.
Are sharks blind and confuse us as their real food?
No, most sharks are not blind (there may be some species that are), indeed they have more senses than humans. They are opportunistic predators and as humans enter their environment, while we are not their normal prey species, they will occasionally have a nibble.
Do shark species cooperate with each other?
Some different species of sharks will hunt prey together such as bonnethead sharks and hammerhead sharks. It appears to be tolerance more than a true cooperative effort like dolphin hunting packs. But, it is the closest cooperative behavior I have seen in sharks.www.sharkwrangler.comKen, the Shark Wrangler.
About how many sharks are in the wild?
Alot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would say that there are about 1,248,975. There are probably way more than that though.
