white sharks
Interacting with wildlife tourism increases activity of white sharks
... The white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is a large mar ine apex predator with a global distribution, occurring in temperate, sub tropical and tropical waters (Klimley and Ainley, 1996; Domeier, ...led ...
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Swimming strategies and energetics of endothermic white sharks during foraging
... White sharks, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus 1758), the largest fish with regional endothermy (typical adult body mass, 300 – 800 kg), are likely to have unusually high energy expenditure for a ...other ...
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In the belly of the beast: resolving stomach tag data to link temperature, acceleration and feeding in white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias)
... Interestingly, the series of stomach temperature dips indicating ingestion only began some 60 min after the burst ascent. Following initial strikes, white sharks often release their prey and return to it ...
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Contrasts in the movements and habitat use of juvenile and adult white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) at Guadalupe Island, Mexico
... the sharks to swim shorter distances to patrol for ...of white sharks by its prey in shallow ...and white sharks may be utiliz- ing these greater depths to remain undetected while ...
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Two-year migration of adult female white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) reveals widely separated nursery areas and conservation concerns
... that white sharks are mating during their offshore phase, whereas Domeier proposed that mating occurs during seasonal, near-shore, adult ...that white sharks are mating at coastal aggregation ...
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New Nursery Area for White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in the Eastern Pacific Ocean
... White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are distributed globally in subtropical and temperate waters and positioned as apex ...the white shark is protected by a permanent fishing ban prohibiting its ...
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Fisheries and aquaculture in Europe [Newsletter] March 2009 No 42
... protect sharks, especially the most endangered ...deep-water sharks as well as for spurdogs and skates in certain fishing ...for white sharks, basking sharks and, in certain regions, ...
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Tracking sharks without teeth: a non-invasive rigid tag attachment for large predatory sharks
... whale sharks ( Rhincodon typus ) that rigidly applied biologging tags via a specially designed tagging ...predatory sharks. First, Gleiss et al. [10] swam with the whale sharks and applied the ...
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A dawn peak in the occurrence of ‘knifing behaviour’ in blue sharks
... blue sharks are feeding on increased prey densities at the surface around dawn, or are taking advantage of the changing light conditions to surprise attack prey silhouetted at the ...observed white ...
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Sizing up the ecological role of sharks as predators
... similar-sized sharks regardless of maturity state and species identity ...larger sharks and documented avoidance of large predators (Heupel & Hueter ...coastal sharks tend to be found in shallow ...
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Evolution of white and megatooth sharks, and evidence for early predation on seals, sirenians, and whales
... and white sharks from the Early to Middle Eocene of north- west Germany, more marked damage to the tips of many changed teeth which are non-strong transported and non-rounded (Figure 5 [10]) such as in many ...
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Symmoriiform sharks from the Pennsylvanian of Nebraska
... cladodont sharks sharing several common characters: relatively short skulls, large eyes, terminal mouth, epicercal but ex- ternally symmetrical caudal fin, pectoral fins with a long metapterygial axis, posterior ...
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Modeling the population dynamics of lemon sharks
... lemon sharks at Bimini, we show it is essential to include density-dependent mor- tality in the first age class and to incorporate delayed breeding to predict even basic population ...lemon sharks must have ...
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Enhanced visual fields in hammerhead sharks
... hammerhead sharks were collected in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, HI, USA, and maintained at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) on Coconut Island, HI, ...blacknose sharks were collected near the shore of ...
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First aggregation of grey nurse sharks (Carcharias taurus) confirmed in Western Australia
... Otway et al. (2003) defined ‘aggregation sites’ for C. taurus as: locations where five or more grey nurse sharks were consistently found throughout the year. This defin- ition was developed in the context of the ...
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Function of the hypobranchial muscles and hyoidiomandibular ligament during suction capture and bite processing in white spotted bamboo sharks, Chiloscyllium plagiosum
... study. Sharks were obtained from our breeding population at the University of Rhode ...Island. Sharks were housed in a 1900 liter circular tank containing filtered seawater of 35 ...and sharks were ...
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Devonian filter-feeding sharks
... Devonian sharks func- tion either as grasping or clutching cuspidate elements with relatively few cusps (diplo-, phoebo-, and cladodonts) or as parts of a crushing or grinding pave- ment dentition (protacrodonts ...
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The Electric Sense of Sharks and Rays
... Previous experiments have demonstrated that a the shark Scyliorhinus canicuk and the ray Raja clavata are extremely sensitive to weak electric fields; b their electrical sensitivity is d[r] ...
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Environmental DNA illuminates the dark diversity of sharks
... Persisting shark populations in human-impacted areas Scientific literature has repeatedly highlighted the footprint of anthro- pogenic activities on shark populations worldwide [for example, see the studies of Edgar et ...
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Conservation challenges of sharks with continental scale migrations
... 2015). Sharks and rays represent one of the most diverse groups of large marine predators, and as such represent important functional groups within marine ...of sharks and rays increases (Dulvy et ...
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