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Great White Sharks are carnivorous, and primarily eat fish (including rays, tuna, and smaller sharks). The Great White Shark eat dolphins, porpoises, whales, Ear less seals, Eared seals and sea lions. Sea otters and sea turtles are also taken at times. Great whites have also been known to eat objects that they are unable to digest. In great white sharks above 3.41 metres (11 ft, 2 in) a diet consisting of a higher proportion of mammals has been observed.[10] These sharks prefer prey with high contents of energy rich fat. Shark expert Peter Klimley used a rod-and-reel rig and trolled carcasses of a seal, a pig, and a sheep to his boat in the South Farallons. The sharks attacked all three baits but rejected the lower fat content sheep carcass.[11]

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12y ago

Great Whites are pure carnivores. They are ambush hunters. They take their prey by surprise from below. They usually hunt early in the morning before the sun rises fully, when the visibility is poor. They usually come up fast from below and attack an unsuspecting prey that is at the water surface. During such attacks, the prey may be thrown off from water, with even the shark making a jump out of the water. Sometimes, when an injured prey starts to escape, they are known to chase and finish the hunt.

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Great White sharks are pure carnivores. They prey upon fish (like Tuna, Rays etc), other smaller species of Sharks, dolphins, porpoises, seals, sea lions, sea turtles, sea otters and even sea birds. They prefer prey that has a high content of energy rich fat. They usually hunt early in the morning before the sun rises fully, when the visibility is poor

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9y ago

Great white sharks are carnivorous animals. They prey mostly on tuna, other sharks, dolphins, porpoises, seals, whales, sea lions and seabirds.

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14y ago

Great Whites mainly eat fish, smaller sharks, seals, and dolphins.

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10y ago

Small great whites mostly eat mostly fish and squid and more mature great whites eat seals , sea lions and dead whales

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