Basking Shark facts: time to eat tiny things! | Animal Fact Files
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- Basking sharks are one of three filter feeding shark species. They are known for their behavior of basking towards the surface of the ocean - they may even jump completely out of the water (breaching) - but these sharks can also dive quite deep. It's currently believed basking sharks spend autumns and winters in the depths of the ocean possibly hibernating while they wait for their food-collecting gill rakers to grow back in. These sharks are the second largest living fish, second only to the whale shark another filter feeding shark species. Basking sharks have huge, gaping mouths they use to collect the foods they eat which consist mainly of zooplankton.
Scientific Name: Cetorhinus maximus
Range: temperate ocean waters worldwide
Size: 33 feet (10m) - possibly larger
Diet: copepods, fish eggs, crustacean larvae, etc.
Lifespan: 50 years (still being studied)
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Cool video!🤩 These sharks have huge mouths!🤯
Their gill-rakers are like natural fishing nets. 💙
Another huge animal of the deep (and shallow) with massive gaps in our knowledgebase of them. I love mysteries!
Thanks for the video!
It always astounds me how much there still is to learn!
Amazing!!! I've Sara basking shark before! 🦈
Whoa that's awesome!
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Pog
Oh wow, I never knew their gills worked as food collection area...lol , always wondered how food went down.. cool.
It's kind of crazy to think about
Sounds like it'd be painful 😬
are gill rakers different than gill slits and how?
33 feet!
What basking sharks eats
Could you do one on Greenland sharks, they live up to 500 years old or insane like that.
Here it is: th-cam.com/video/O0rCVO0434M/w-d-xo.html
It's a great episode!
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Basking sharks are completely toothless
Hmm... that's not what we're reading. Where are you getting this information? Here's what we're seeing:
#3 under "Distinguishing Characteristics" - www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/cetorhinus-maximus/
last sentence under "What do basking sharks look like?" - www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/basking-shark-cetorhinus-maximus.html
include a picture under "Feed and diet" - australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/basking-shark-cetorhinus-maximus-gunnerus-1765/
Let us know where you're seeing this information that they don't have teeth. We would love to see the facts!
@@AnimalFactFiles but they’re not actually toothless, instead they had microscopic teeth that aren’t used for biting
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Basking shark corpses have been confused for sea monsters. Check out Trey The Explainer. He has a video all about it.
Oh that's true! Same for a lot of marine animals - oarfish is another example that comes to mind
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