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Comparing The Hammerhead And The Great White Shark

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How does a shark hunt? A shark genuinely has multiple things that help them hunt. In this paper I will talk about how they sense, stalk, catch prey, who they hunt with, and how they camouflage. Two main sharks that we will be talking about is The Hammerhead and The Great White shark. I have always wanted to learn about the shark and why they are such a fierce animal. For a shark to hunt, it needs to find its prey. Sharks have strong sense that allow them to find the smallest movement which makes them know there's prey around. A shark can smell really good, so good that if one was in an olympic swimming pool it would be able to smell one drop of blood. When it smells the blood sharks know which direction it comes from because of which nostril …show more content…

Also they have a film over their retina allowing them to see during the night. Sharks must swim constantly or they will die. To keep oxygen rich they have to make sure the constant flow of water goes through their gills, but some can pass water through their respiratory system by their pharynx. The shark goes to sleep while it remains swimming. Once fact about the nurse shark, they are known to float right onto the docks to snack on fish scraps left behind by fishermen. They take advantage of the fact they are a shark species that can breathe while laying completely still. Just like the Caribbean reef sharks and lemon sharks have no fear of washing ashore. These sharks will hunt for prey in shallow waters and will come right up to the beach to get a meal. There’s an island called Kangaroo island on the coast of Australia which is the home of about 40,000 seals and sea lions, so that means it makes perfect hunting grounds for sharks. The great white is one of the worlds largest predatory fish, they could eat about 70 pounds of food and this will last for about six weeks. Even though sharks are big predators they also get hunted too. Bigger sharks eat smaller sharks, orcas or known as killer whales, or Humans. Humans are a main predator towards sharks because nearly every year 100 million sharks are killed. They kill them for their fins, jaws, or just to be moved from the

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