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Article: Lions of the sea.(great white shark)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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You may have heard the old joke: What does a 500pound gorilla eat for breakfast? Answer: Anything it wants. You could apply the same logic to the great white shark. Weighing as much as some full-sized pickup trucks, it needs a lot of calories to stay alive and active. Popular movies have shown the white shark as a relentless hunter. The trailer from the 1975 movie Jaws intones, "It lives to kill: a mindless eating machine."
Killing Machine or Picky Eater?
Dr. A. Peter Klimley, a marine biologist at the University of California at Davis, has studied white sharks for more than 25 years. In his early studies he noticed that, although the sharks were killing ...