Great White Shark

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Great white sharks are large grey sharks with white on the underside, often depicted as vicious man eaters, and are found in most oceans in the world, near coastal areas.
‘Great white sharks’ are also known as ‘white sharks’, ‘great whites’, ‘white deaths’, and ‘white pointers’.
Great white sharks typically grow to be 4 to 6.4 metres (13 to 21 feet) in length, although some have said to be up to 8 metres (26 feet) long.
Great white sharks can swim at speeds of 56 kilometres per hour (35 miles per hour), and can dive to depths of 1,200 metres (3,940 feet).
The scientific name of a great white shark is Carcharodon carcharias, and it is the only living member of its genus, Carcharodon, from the family Lamnidae, the family of white or mackerel sharks.

Great white sharks typically weigh 680 to 2,268 kilograms (1,500 to 5,000 pounds), with a record believed to be 3,324 kilograms (7328 pounds).
Great white sharks typically prey on animals with a high fat and energy content, including large fish, dolphins, whales, seals, turtles and birds, and are said to sometimes take a ‘taste’ bite first to check the suitability of its food, and they are occasionally preyed on by fellow great whites and orcas.
Although great white sharks have performed significant unprovoked and fatal attacks on people, humans are not favourable to sharks due to the high bone content and little fat contained in the human body.
Great white sharks do not survive well in captivity, and have a life span of up to at least 70 years, originally believed to be 30 years, although, due to overfishing, net trapping and the like, they are classified as vulnerable.
There is often dominance between great white sharks, which may attack or warn fellow sharks by biting, if they come too close.

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