Basking Shark
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Among the masters of the sea, lies a sluggish monster. Cetorhinus
maximus is just that, although more generally known as the . This
interesting animal has some unusual characteristics which include its physical,
behavioral, reproductive, and feeding attributes. Other details about the Basking ....
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.... to carry a whole other
organism within (Harman, 1996, 21).
Basking sharks have, at some point in time, also been known as the
elephant shark, the Bone shark, sailfish shark, and sunfish. The reason this
shark is occasionally referred to as the Bone shark, is because when they die,
they sink (their density is greater then the water's density) and are ravaged
among the sea floor, by rocks, etc. (Steel, 1985, 132). However, when they do
finally wash up on shore the ....
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