Shark Identity
The two-word common name of the world's largest predatory fish.
What is the Great White Shark?
The reason why you will never see a living Great White Shark inside a traditional city zoo or aquarium.
What is they cannot survive in captivity? (They refuse to eat and die).
Because Great Whites exclusively eat animal meat like seals, fish, and sea lions, they belong to this dietary class.
What are carnivores
The physical location size that accurately matches how far away a shark can smell a single drop of blood, debunking the "miles away" myth.
What is an Olympic-sized swimming pool?
To protect their eyes from thrashing prey while biting, Great White Sharks perform this weird physical action instead of blinking.
What is rolling their eyes backward into their head?
Great Whites are believed to be like this prehistoric creature.
What is Megaladon?
Great White Sharks must do this continuously, even while resting, to keep oxygen moving through their gills.
What is swim forward?
Unlike humans who eat multiple times a day, a single heavy, fatty meal can fuel an adult shark for this long.
What is several weeks?
The specialized "sixth sense" that allows Great Whites to target camouflaged prey hidden beneath sand by detecting biological electrical currents.
What is a heartbeat?
Sharks have skin covered in "dermal denticles," meaning their skin feels like sandpaper and is actually made out of millions of microscopic versions of this body part.
What are teeth?
Great White Sharks belong to this biological class of animals because they are marine animals with backbones.
What are fish?
This famous coastal country is considered the ultimate global destination for Great White Shark cage diving.
What is South Africa? (Also Accepting Australia or the USA).
The dramatic hunting behavior where a shark charges fast from deep water and vaults its entire body out of the ocean.
What is breaching?
The myth that many surfers thought to be true
What is Sharks are attracted to pee?
To track prey and hide from dangers in total darkness, Great White Sharks can dive down to this maximum, pitch-black ocean depth.
What is 3,900 feet? (Accepting any answer between 3,500 and 4,000 feet).
nstead of bone, a shark's entire skeleton is made of this flexible, lightweight tissue (the same material found in human ears and noses).
What is cartilage?
Great Whites prefer water temperatures ranging between 54°F and 75°F, which places them in this climate category.
What is temperate or cool water?
This marine mammal is the absolute favorite, high-fat food source for fully grown adult Great White Sharks.
What is a seal? (Or sea lion)
Most shark attacks on humans are a mistake caused by this concept, where a swimming human looks exactly like a seal from below.
What is mistaken identity?
Even though they are the ocean's top apex predators, Great White Sharks will completely flee their hunting grounds for up to a year if they detect the scent of a dead member of this marine mammal species, their only true enemy.
What is an Orca? (Or Killer Whale).
Because they sit at the absolute top of the ocean food chain and have no natural predators, Great Whites hold this title.
What is an apex predator?
Because they cross vast distances and travel thousands of miles across open oceans every year, Great White Sharks are classified as this type of animal.
What is highly migratory?
The estimated total number of teeth a single Great White Shark will grow, use, and shed throughout its lifetime.
What is 20,000 to 30,000 teeth?
Sharks lack this gas-filled organ that regular fish use to stay afloat, meaning they will sink to the bottom if they stop moving.
What is a swim bladder?
Unlike humans who are warm-blooded and lizards who are cold-blooded, Great White Sharks can warm their core bodies above the water temperature, making them this type of animal.
What is regional endotherms? (Accept "partially warm-blooded").