Great White Sharks

A bull shark is similar to a bull in the way that it is very aggressive and is one of the most dangerous shark species. What makes this shark so dangerous is that it can tolerate fresh water and have been found as far north as rivers in New Jersey.

Great white sharks live in temperate waters, but travel to colder waters. They have been sighted off America's East and West Coasts, South Africa, Australia, Hawaii, Scandinavia, Russia, and Japan.

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The Latin name derives from the Greek (carcharias, sharp tooth) but is not pronounced with an SH sound. The closest cognate is the Yucatec name "xoc" which does sound like shock or shark. In any event, the English word "shark" gained popularity following the display of a large shark by Captain John Hawkins in 1565.

yes if they don't it will mess up the food chain

No, humans don't have much impact on the Shark's habitat.

As per the data available, the have a 11 month gestation period. Eggs develop and hatch in the mother shark's uterus and continue to develop during the gestation period. Unborn sharks too indulge in intrauterine cannibalism (stronger unborn pups eating their weaker womb-mates).

The majority of shark attacks happen within 5 feet deep of water, particularly in crowded beaches where there is alot of splashing going on.

The bull shark is a consumer. Bull Sharks are apex predators. They are known to eat any living creature that lives in its surroundings. Its diet would include fish, turtles, dolphins, crustaceans, other smaller bull sharks etc. They are also known to attack humans. They usually chase and attack their prey.

Great White sharks 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.
Actually, they'll eat any fish, including their own kind!

Yes and no. In some places yes. It depends on the area. Some sharks are famous which is another thing, it depends on the type of shark. One time a kid was ankle deep in water and shark came up to him. I wouldn't be worried. A shark attack happens like 10 times a year and most of them are never fatal. Think about that. hope i could help!

about 150 pounds daily. from fish to seals to dead animals such as crab, fish, shrimp and whales

Sharks love to swim. So other than eating and hunting fish, they swim. If they dont do that than they just hunt and eat all day.

Yes, the Great White Shark is protected. In 1991, South Africa became the first country in the world to provide full protection status for the Great White shark within its jurisidictional waters. Countries including USA, Australia, Malta and Namibia follwed suit later. Copyright: South Africa - The Good News

maybe every thing ?

The white shark is an apex predator (on top of the food chain) and as such, has very few predators. Killer whales and larger sharks pose the only natural threat to an adult white shark.

The chances of getting attacked by a shark are very few,you would be more likely to bit by a mosquito and die from lime decease.Simple as that.So you if you get attacked by a shark,you are definitely one in a million!

White sharks are carnivorous, and primarily eat fish (including rays, tuna, and smaller sharks), dolphins, porpoises, whale carcasses and pinnipeds such as seals, fur seals and sea lions and sometimes sea turtles. Sea otters and penguins are attacked at times although rarely, if ever, eaten. Great whites have also been known to eat objects that they are unable to digest. In great white sharks above 3.41 meters (11 ft, 2 in) a diet consisting of a higher proportion of mammals has been observed. 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.

The great white is regarded as an apex predator with its only real threats from humans and, in at least one incident, the Orca. Pods of dolphins can kill a great white shark through mobbing behavior in which the dolphins ram the shark. Although their diets overlap greatly, there are few reports of encounters between orcas and great whites, and they don't seem to directly compete with each other. Great whites are also sometimes preyed on by larger specimens.


Great white breaching to catch a Cape Fur SealA great white shark primarily uses its extra senses (i.e, electrosense and mechanosense) to locate prey from far off. Then, the shark uses smell and hearing to further verify that its target is food. At close range, the shark utilizes sight for the attack.

Great white sharks' reputation as ferocious predators is well-earned, yet they are not (as was once believed) indiscriminate "eating machines". They typically hunt using an "ambush" technique, taking their prey by surprise from below. Near the now-famous Seal Island, in South Africa's False Bay; studies have shown that the shark attacks most often occur in the morning, within 2 hours after sunrise. The reason for this is that it is hard to see a shark close to the bottom at this time. The success rate of attacks is 55% in the first 2 hours, it falls to 40% in late morning and after that the sharks stop hunting.

The hunting technique of the white shark varies with the species it hunts. When hunting Cape fur seals off Seal Island, South Africa; the shark will ambush it from below at high speeds and hit the seal at mid-body. They go so fast that they actually breach out of the water. They have also been observed chasing their prey after a missed attack. The prey is usually attacked at the surface.

When hunting Northern elephant seals off California, the shark immobilizes the prey with a large bite to the hindquarters (which is the main source of the seal's mobility) and waits for the seal to bleed to death. This technique is especially used on adults which are large and dangerous. Prey is normally attacked sub-surface. Harbour seals are simply grabbed from the surface and pulled down until they stop struggling. They are then eaten near the bottom. California sea lions are ambushed from below and struck in mid-body before being dragged and eaten.

When hunting dolphins and porpoises, white sharks attack them from above, behind or below to avoid being detected by their echolocation. Among the species targeted are dusky dolphins, harbour porpoises, Risso's dolphins and Dall's porpoises.

A new study from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, is using CT scans of a shark's skull and complex computer models to measure the maximum bite force of the great white. The study will reveal what forces and behaviours the carnivore's skull is adapted to handle and will help resolve competing theories about its feeding behaviour.

Aligators ambush. Sometimes there is more than one in a pool of water. All the aligators wait for an animal to get a drink and then snatch the animal with it's mighty jaws. All of the aligators try to get a piece of the animal and sometimes fight over the meat and sometimes killing eachother. So i guess you could say that they do hunt together.

Yes. Sharks are found in ALL the world's oceans, but, as the saying goes, there are many fish in the sea, so it is normally quite safe to swim in an area in which they have been seen. However, their superior sense of smell (up to a mile away) directs them to blood in the water. Once excited, they don't really seem to care who or what they eat, hence the term "feeding frenzy".But specifically, there are nurse sharks & whitetip reef sharks found/seen in Banderas Bay.

• Yes, because they know that killer whales are super incredibly powerful ocean predatory mammals. Killer whales are able to hunt and kill animals that are 2 times bigger than their actual size. They can kill whale sharks, sperm whales, great white sharks, tiger sharks, goblin sharks, angel sharks, giant squids, lemon sharks and including mako sharks. Nearly all sharks are scared of killer whales and have so much fear every single time they see killer whales.

Believe it or not, more people are killed by coconuts falling on their heads than getting killed by sharks!

For the most part they are solitary. They do however congregate in areas where food (seals and whale carcasses especially) is plentiful. They ofcourse also come in contact for mating though this has never been observed or recorded by humans. During the times they are in close contact with one another they have been observed "getting along" with one another though there is a feeding hierarchy from biggest to smallest and some specimens exhibit wounds that could only be from other white sharks.

they have been known to eat each other,yes they will eat each other youtube has a video about it.

It would depend on the species of shark. If it was a baby shark that only ate small crabs and shrimps, the eel. If it was a great white shark then the shark.