In fact, she may have already been pregnant during this encounter this would be quite impressive because it means she was still producing children at the sprightly age of 50 years old. The person who tracked her down was researcher Mauricio Hoyos Padilla, who found her near the island of Guadalupe, just off the west coast of Baja California in Mexico.ĭeep Blue supposedly returns to Guadalupe every two years to reproduce during the mating season. It wasn’t until 2013 that a video was finally captured of this large creature. It’s believed that she was first spotted in the 1990s, but no photographs or video evidence from these encounters exist. This honor goes to a female with the very appropriate name of Deep Blue. Given its status as one of the largest predatory animals in the world, it’s no surprise that there’s a lot of interest (and even a little built-up mythology) surrounding the largest great white shark ever recorded. ©/ShaneMyersPhoto The Largest Great White Shark Ever Recorded: Meet Deep Blue For example, a great white may believe someone on a surfboard is a seal. An attack on a human is usually due to mistaken identity. However, as they grow, they seek out larger mammals like sea lions, small whales, and seals. As young sharks, these animals prey on small fish and sting rays. These giant fish are the largest predatory fish on Earth. Great white sharks can be found throughout the world’s oceans, however, many of them stay in mostly cold waters just off coastlines. Besides humans, only a few animals such as orcas and groups of dolphins would dare to attack an adult great white shark, and even then only rarely. It has been speculated that shark attacks occur because of mistaken identity (we may look like seals to a shark), pure curiosity, or food scarcity it could be any one of these, depending on the situation. While these sharks have been known to attack humans, only about 300 deaths have ever been recorded from great whites. Their favorite foods include fish (like halibut), seals (especially the elephant seal), whale carcasses, and even dolphins. Then they tear through the flesh and swallow whole bites. Great white sharks hunt their prey with short bursts of speed, take a bite out of it (if they can’t swallow it whole), and let it bleed to death in the water. The world’s largest predatory fish, great white sharks commonly weigh a few thousand pounds. They also have a few rows of around 300 serrated teeth to slice through flesh. They have an extraordinarily powerful bite force, estimated to be around 18,000 Newtons (high in absolute terms, though not quite as high, in relation to body size, as the Tasmanian devil or Nile crocodile). Nevertheless, their size and ferocity are important aspects of their predatory lifestyle. They also migrate long distances between feeding and mating grounds. While mostly solitary, they are thought to establish some kind of dominance hierarchy when congregating together in groups. They are surprisingly intelligent and curious animals. There is much more to the great white shark than its size though. Watch on YouTube The Great White: More Than Meets the Eye
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