White Tipped Shark

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The Oceanic White-Tipped Shark is a pelagic shark which means it lives close to the surface and rarely goes to the ocean floor. It is an aggressive slow moving fish that usually will find a carcass of a whale or other large marine animal and dominate the feeding frenzy. It gets its Name white-tipped shark because every fin on the shark has a white tip except the anal fin which has a black tip. They inhabit most of the Salt water of the world because they can live in cold or warm water. Excluding the occasional feeding frenzy, white tips also eat a diet that consists mostly of cephalopods. However, its diet can be far more varied and less selective—it is known to eat threadfins, stingrays, sea turtles, birds, gastropods, crustaceans, mammalian carrion, and even rubbish dumped from ships. It has a unique Mating season is in early summer in the northwest Atlantic Ocean and southwest Indian Ocean. Once the female is pregnant then the gestation period is one year. Litter sizes vary from one to 15 with White Tips are a commercially important animal to humans seeing as how its fins are used for shark fin soup and its meat and oils utilized for consumption, its hides are often used for leather as well. Many scientists have referred to this shark as the most dangerous shark in the world, despite the more notorious Great White and Tiger, the white tip is responsible for more human deaths then all shark species combined. With one incident alone, the torpedoing of USS Indianapolis on 30 July 1945, giving a minimum figure of between 60 and 80 sailors killed by sharks. While diving with these sharks is done often it is not advised. So Respect and Fear this great animal who is number 4 on animal planets deadliest

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