The Perfect Predator
Posted: Saturday, April 24, 2010
by Chuck Clayton
http://www.inexpensive-vacation-ideas.com
The Great White Shark is the most perfect predator on the face of the planet today-on land or in the seas. The animal has evolved over 300 million years and design is good-it is very good.
The great white shark has several significant advantages that make it clearly the apex predator of the oceans. It has size, strong disengaging jaws with razor sharp teeth that are replaced as needed, an armored but flexible body, and rotating eyeballs to protective them against thrashing prey.
Great white sharks have excellent eyesight, are able to smell in the parts per million and sense electrical current of other sea life. Although great white sharks have no vocal cords, they communicate with each other and their prey using body language.
Great white sharks have a hierarchical structure where size is the determining factor in who gets first choice at the food table.
They are stealth predators with lightening speed and agile bodies. They have a dark blue or gray back that allows them to blend into the ocean for prey looking downward and a white underbelly to camouflage them from prey looking upwards.
The Great White Shark
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