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Great White Shark Bites Off More Than It Can Chew
Topic Started: Jul 24 2014, 08:36 PM (421 Views)
stargatedalek
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http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/great-white-shark-bites-more-it-can-chew
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In a sign of the gulf between Western Australian attitudes to sharks and those of the government, beachgoers attempted to pull the distressed shark out to sea, as might otherwise be done for whales. The government is in the process of killing hundreds of the apex predator, despite overwhelming expert and public opinion against the cull.
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I think it's good that for once public opinion didn't cloud judgement in if an organism was "valuable" enough to save, but a shame the shark ended up dying anyways. :/
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Mathius Tyra
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Well, I don't think it's easy to help pulling out a sea lion from a 4 metres long shark's throat, also no shark would allow anyone to do that easily.

This reminds me of that heron who swallowed too big fish and died.
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stargatedalek
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that must be rare for a heron to do that, considering I've seen them swallow turtles and even ducklings almost as large as their own torso and be fine

what came to mind for me is the famous fossil of xiphactinus choked on gillicus
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Xiphactinus_audax_Sternberg_Museum.jpg
Edited by stargatedalek, Jul 24 2014, 09:34 PM.
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Mathius Tyra
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Well, that fish is a big fresh water lamprey and is about the same length to the hero's neck. Also, I think the mucus lamprey creates to protect itself affected the heron as well.
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that could certainly be, the mucus can be very sticky and clog up lots of things
but lampreys themselves are pretty easy to swallow
Edited by stargatedalek, Jul 24 2014, 10:12 PM.
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