Shark Bites facts

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A shark helped another shark give birth at an Auckland, New Zealand aquarium in 2009. The first shark bit the abdomen of the second, freeing the pups inside. One aquarium staff member said "It had to bite a certain part to let them out and do it without killing the babies or her."

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Google wraps its undersea fiber optic cables in Kevlar to protect them from shark bites.

What shark bites the most?

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what to do if a shark bites you. Here are 28 of the best facts about Shark Bites 2019 and Shark Bites Coos Bay I managed to collect.

what shark bites humans the most?

1. Dolphins can tolerate and recover from extreme injuries like shark bites. The healing process is very rapid - even very deep wounds wont cause a dolphin to bleed to death. Gaping wounds heal in a way that restores the animal's natural body shape. Infection of large wounds is also very rare

2. The great white sharks are not on top of the ocean food chain any more. There is a unknown creature taking bites out of them! 50 great white sharks this past year have shown up half eaten.

3. New Yorkers bite 10 times more people than sharks do worldwide

4. Google makes use of a Kevlar-like layer to protect its underwater internet cables from shark bites.

5. Deep-sea fiber optic cables are now buried under the seabed, because the electricity running through them used to attract sharks who would bite into them - electrocuting the shark and destroying the cable

6. Great White Sharks sometimes regurgitate a bite to make room for a more calorically-rich morsel, evidence that white sharks are adept at assessing the caloric value of their food and are selective when feeding.

7. The skin of a female shark is much thicker than that of a male because males bite females during mating.

8. Fiber-optic internet cables on the sea floor has to be wrapped in kevlar to protect them from shark bites

9. Hammerhead sharks reproduce once a year and usually with the male shark biting the female shark violently until she agrees to mate with him.

10. Males are very aggressive during the mating. They bite females and hold them tight with their sharp teeth during insemination. Pregnancy lasts from 9 to 14 months (usually 12) and ends with 1 to 4 pups. Females are viviparous (they give birth to live babies).

Why do plumbers hate shark bites?

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There's a parasitic shark species called the Cookiecutter shark which takes perfectly round bites out of larger animals including whales, other sharks, seals, etc

Dusky shark has triangular-shaped teeth in the upper jaw with saw-like edges. Teeth in the lower jaw are narrow, more pointed and finely serrated. Dusky shark has one of the strongest bites in the world of sharks.

Team of Australian and American scientists discovered that bite force of C. megalodon was 10.8 to 18.2 tons per square inch, which is 10 times stronger than a bite force of great white shark.

Horn shark has powerful bite that facilitates opening of hard shells. When it eats too much sea urchins, teeth of horn shark become purple-colored.

Orcas are tearing open Great White Sharks by pulling their pectoral fins purely so that they can eat their livers - they leave every other organ intact and don't bite them anywhere else but the fins. - source

When shark bites do not bleed?

..The skin of a female shark is thicker than that of a male shark because male sharks bite female sharks during mating.

How to use shark bites?

Nurse shark is docile by nature, but it will bite when it is provoked.

Great white sharks do not mistake humans for seals. Most bite incidents happen in waters where there is poor visibility, or something impairs the shark's senses. Humans are for the most part too bony for their liking.

The bite force of a megalodon shark is estimated to be 25,000 lbf. Being bitten would feel like being crushed by a cruise ship anchor.

There’s a bioluminescent shark that lives 3,200 feet below the ocean’s surface and earns its nickname “cookiecutter shark” by taking round cookie-cutter shaped bites out of prey.