The habitat of sharks is diverse, they can be found in any ocean, sea and even in rivers and lakes. A water layer up to 100 meters deep is home to most sharks. They give greater preference to warm waters, there is a more saturated forage base, and the shark is 100% predator. Often people become victims of these predators. Most of the attacks recorded in the United States, Brazil, Africa.
Types of Tooth Killers
Interesting facts were discovered about sharks that lived thousands of years ago and were the ancestors of modern predators. For example, the found remains of one such predator allowed scientists to determine the average length of this individual - 25 meters. A small fishing boat could easily fit in her mouth.
The largest shark is the whale, it reaches a size of up to 20 meters. It lives in the oceans in tropical latitudes. Interesting facts about the whale shark are known: despite its size, this predator feeds on one plankton and does not pose a danger to humans.
Great danger to humans is a white shark. It reaches 11 meters in length and weighs up to 3 tons. Young individuals do not attack humans, eat only fish. The speed developed by these killers reaches 50 km / h. The well-known and interesting fact about sharks: they can not stop and remain in constant motion, the only way they can saturate themselves with oxygen. The only bone in the shark is the teeth. This predator has one fin and two pectorals.
As a result of research, interesting facts about the white shark were revealed: she has a hearing and a sense of smell. She is able to recognize the smell of blood at a distance of 5 kilometers. The bite force of such a killer is 30 tons per 1 cm 2. She got her name because of the snow-white belly. The appetite of the white shark is hardly moderate, for a year it eats more than 10 tons of flesh. But sometimes the predator itself can become someone's dinner. Killer whales attack old or sick individuals. Sperm whale is also not averse to feast on shark meat.
Thanks to the study of the deepest parts of the oceans, the most interesting facts about the shark appeared. It turned out that at a depth where light does not pass, bottom sharks live in the zone of constant darkness, who have learned to move along the bottom using their pectoral fins. Predators use light spots on the body to attract prey.
The role of sharks in nature
This toothed predator is a regulator of numbers and a nurse. Like many predators, the shark breeds slowly. It is arranged by nature, there is a balance. For example, grass grows fast, herbivores - slower, predators - even longer, so that the food supply does not exhaust itself.
Underwater birds
The closest relatives of sharks are stingrays. They also do not have bones in their bodies; their skeleton is cartilaginous. Stingrays are predatory fish and can be dangerous to humans. Their formidable weapons are spike, poison and electric current. There were cases when the stingray spike fell into the human heart. One such tragic incident occurred on the filming of a transmission.
Even ancient people made arrowheads from his spike. As for the electric ramp, its discharge is not fatal; not a single case of death was recorded. The most famous of all stingrays is manta ray. Its weight can reach 2 tons. Their average size is 6.6 meters. Their movement resembles a bird's flight.
More and more interesting facts about stingrays and sharks appear due to the emerging public interest in these ancient killer fish. And it is increasingly heard that these deep-sea predators are in danger, which comes from human life. The well-known fin soup, unjustified in its uselessness and cruelty to everyone, gives a lot of trouble to environmentalists. Those, in turn, begin to create with the help of advertising campaigns and "troll" the fishing industry.
Interesting facts about sharks for children
Oddly enough, but unusual stories about sharks can be found in police stations. There are cases when the contents of the stomach of a caught shark helped to solve the crime. There were finds more related to films about Jack Sparrow: barrels of gunpowder and cannonballs were found in the stomachs of sharks. Of course, many stories related to this have already lost the line between fiction and reality. Man is always attracted by mysticism and mystery, and who else than a shark can dispute the title of the most odious person.
Hunt for people
Shark attacks on humans are extremely rare. There are sharks whose size does not allow them to cause serious damage to humans. Such predators are not classified as traumatic. Tiger and white sharks are considered man-eating sharks. This does not mean that they arrange a hunt for people, and a person is their daily diet. In general, attacking a person, the animal does not realize that in front of it is a person or other living creature. Due to its size and disposition, the shark is the dominant predator of the seas and oceans. That is why, meeting people on her way, she tastes them. This predator feels great even in fresh waters. The lion's share of attacks on people with fatal outcomes on account of the bull shark.
Interesting facts about sharks can be heard on the coast of India. There, to try human meat, a shark does not necessarily hunt for it. In India, there is no burial of the dead, the body of the deceased is burned at the stake, and the remains are lowered into the water, thereby making it possible to try bovine shark human meat. Without realizing it, this shark became a kind of conductor of dead people from the living world to another world. But in reality - a coastal water orderly.
Predator instincts
The shark, like all predators, takes advantage of the effect of surprise and attacks suddenly, therefore, it will not work against it. Yes, and its size, and the strength of the jaw leave no chance. A person often encounters sharks not because of the rampant and licentious nature of this fish. A predator does not break into a man’s house to take his life. People themselves share shark habitats: coastal waters, beaches. Surfers, fishermen, scuba divers often, without realizing it, provoke sharks. A shark is like a wolf in the forest: when you meet it, there is little chance of leaving alive. If the predator has reduced the distance and is in range, this means one thing - he so wanted to and will attack.
A lot of stories go around the fact that dolphins came to the rescue of people when they were attacked by a shark. Dolphins stay in packs, so they can withstand a predator. Protecting their cubs, dolphins often come into battle with sharks.
