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What makes a tiger shark unique?

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Sharks have what you could call a special attribute they have a sixth sense. Sharks use the small canals that pepper their face to detect electricity from a wide area. This helps them to find their next meal or even a mate.

Also, the sharks have specially coloring. The grayish part on their backs helps them to camouflage with the grayish sandy ocean floor (if you were looking from the top of the water that is). The white-ish coloring on their bellies helps them to camouflage with the bright water or sunlight (if you are underneath the shark looking up). This helps their night or day time hunts.

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I will assume your question is «what makes the tiger shark SPECIAL». In that case, Tiger Sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) are indeed special for several reasons.

First, the color of its skin is unlike other sharks, it really looks like a tiger with dark spots and stripes over a blue to light green upper color skin, with a white or light yellow underbelly.

Second, its huge size. Females are larger, which is the general rule for sharks. A Tiger Shark (female) was caught off Australia, and measured 5.5 meters.

There probably are larger female specimens, because another exceptionally large male Tiger Shark caught measured 4.5 meters.

Third, its ferocity. They attack anything, including small to medium size whales, Great Whites, and will sometimes even eat other Tiger Sharks.

Divers fear more Tiger Sharks than Great Whites, which are normally cautious and less agressive.

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Its tiger stripped skin makes it look like a tiger

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a really big mouth and it has spots. it also has no theeth

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It can swemm fast.

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tiger stripes

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