Tuesday, 1 November 2011

What You Need To Know About Great White Sharks

By Hudson Wyoming


If you want to have an exciting and adventurous trip, then you can swim with the great white sharks. Swimming with great white sharks is now becoming popular these days. Since most tourism industry now promote cage diving so that you can be in the same water with the fierce marine giant.

Not all individuals have substantial knowledge and information regarding this animal. Nor do they know the great places locations to find them. The common size of great white shark ranges from four meters to five meters in length and usually weighs around 700 to 1000 kilograms.

The female sharks are often bigger than the male sharks. Great whites are carnivorous and they will feed on mostly any marine life that they can find, their favorite diet includes sting rays, dolphins, seals, sea lions, fishes, albatross and other animals. Moreover, they are also known to ingest things that are not usually part of their diet such as small buoys, rafts and even garbage.

Great white sharks have an extreme ability of sense, wherein they can detect electromagnetic fields made by underwater animals. Great white sharks are the apex predators; elimination of the top predators has an effect on the lower predators of a food chain or web. This occurs in few parts of the globe wherein a reduction of population of the known predators results to the increase of key preys. Extinction of the great white sharks would definitely increase the population of its key preys like the sea lion, seals and dolphins.

Great white sharks are subjected to aggressive conservation efforts because their population is dwindling in the wild. They have low reproduction rate such that the female can only reproduce between seven and nine offspring in her entire lifetime. Now even if they are stereotyped as efficient killers in the sea due to the bad publicity from different Hollywood films, great white sharks have coexisted with humans for the past millions of years.

These animals are found all over the world and they prefer to live in waters that have temperature from 12 0C to 24 0C. They are found in places like South Africa, Kenya, California, Mexico and Australia. Moreover, they are also found in places like Seychelles, Madagascar and Mauritius.




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