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What eats basking sharks?
Basking sharks are apex predators and typically do not have natural predators. However, they may be at risk from large sharks, such as great white sharks or tiger sharks, when they are younger or injured. Additionally, killer whales have been known to prey on basking sharks.
How do basking sharks protect them?
by eating other fish
What sharks do not eat meat?
There are no sharks that do not eat meat. All sharks are carnivorous and feed primarily on fish, seals, squid, and other marine animals.
Do sharks eat plankton?
Filter feeding Sharks, like the Basking Shark and the whale Shark eats plankton on purpose. Other Sharks might get some by accident.
Are there any other sharks longer than a whale shark?
No, but the basking shark comes close. The whale shark can be 45 feet and more, and the basking shark reaches 37 feet.
What do sharks lack that makes them different from many other fish?
Sharks have no swim bladder for buoyancy. Instead, an oily liver aids in bouyancy.
What is the tiny food for big shark?
Depends on what you mean by "big Sharks". Whale Sharks and basking Sharks eat plankton and Krill. The other "big Sharks" eat bigger stuff. fish, seals etc
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.
Do sharks have a skeliton?
no they don't they have caralige (they same stguff in your ears and nose) this is what makes them different from other fish
Do whale sharks eat basking sharks?
No, both species are filter feeders. Eating small schooling fish, shrimp, krill, and plankton. They most definitely would not eat each other.
What makes the ocean different from other ecosystems?
Salt water maybe, lack of dry, giant whales and sharks.
Do basking shark eat meat?
Basking sharks are filter feeders, primarily feeding on plankton and small fish by swimming with their mouths open to filter feed. They do not actively hunt or eat larger prey like other shark species.
