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Lilly - Great White Shark

The Great White Shark Adventure . The Great White Shark looks scary. It has a torpedo shaped body with a pointed snout. This powerful fish has a white belly and a grey body. It is 3 1/2meters to 5 meters long and weighs 1,200 kg. It also has 3,000 razor sharp teeth that can be replaced. The Great White Shark has a solid black eye and a really good sense of smell.

The Great White Shark is found in lots of places. It is found in the ocean. It is also found in North and South America, Africa, Japan, China, Russia, New Zealand, and of curse Australia. It is usually found in mild temperate waters. It is also found fairly close to the shoreline. The Great White shark will feed on fish, rays, and other sharks like the Whale Shark. It feeds on Harbor seals, elephant seals, dolphins, and sometimes Small Toothed Wales and sea lions. Sometimes it will eat the fat-rich blubber layer of dead whales, sea turtles, and sea otters. The Great white Shark gets it’s food by sneaking up from behind the prey and…….. WHAM! ........it takes a bite of it's prey.

Sometimes The Great white lives up to 30-50 years. The Great White Shark lives a long time. It can only reproduce at a short rate despite of fishing. It has to be 12 to 15 years of age to reproduce (have babies). The life span of The Great White Shark is unknown. Some people think it can live up to 100 years of age.  The scientific name for this powerful fish is Squalls Archeries. Carouse Linnaeus named the Great White in 1758. Carcharodon comes from the Greek words karcharodon and odous. Karcharodon means sharp or jagged. Odous means tooth. The great white is classified as a mackerel (Lamnidae) shark. Great white sharks, like all other sharks, have an extra sense given by the Ampullae of Lorenzini, which enables them to detect the electromagnetic field emitted in the water. I got all of this information from: [|www.Australian-animals.net] [|www.enchantedlearning.com] and Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.