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Great white gobbled by an even bigger shark

as it's hauled into fisherman's boat

 Started by Still Waters , Dec 30 2012 02:32 PM
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#1    Still Waters

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Posted 30 December 2012 - 02:32 PM

Being hooked by a fisherman is probably up there with the worst things that could happen to a shark. But what about becoming bait for an even bigger beast as you're being hauled into the boat?

This was the fate of a poor great white in New Zealand this week.

And a spectacular photograph of the encounter, which shows Charles Darwin's survival of the fittest - or perhaps biggest - theory in action, has taken the web by storm after it was posted on Reddit.

http://www.dailymail...rmans-boat.html
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Posted 30 December 2012 - 02:35 PM

Thats pretty neat...however, to me those do not look like Great Whites..

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Posted 30 December 2012 - 02:52 PM

the bottom one is a great white

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Posted 30 December 2012 - 02:57 PM

The one on the line looks like a Mako. The bottom one is most probably a Great White.

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Posted 30 December 2012 - 03:48 PM

A few people in the comments are saying it's 2 blue tip sharks.
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Posted 30 December 2012 - 08:18 PM

Well, thse guys definately are not Great Whites. They are almost certainly Makos, as the shape of their snout and fins, as well as the size of their eyes matches with that of Makos. Great Whites are more robust.
... Althiugh the one at the bottom may be a Blue shark, after all.

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Posted 30 December 2012 - 08:40 PM

I don't know enough about sharks to say for certain what kind they are. I just thought it was an interesting piece of news and as someone commented, I believe it's rare to see one shark go after another shark like that.
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Posted 31 December 2012 - 01:10 AM

The second one looks like a great white to me.It's freeking hhhuuggeee too .
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Posted 31 December 2012 - 01:13 AM

I feel sorry for the poor guy on the line.......( the shark )

What a way to go.....

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Posted 31 December 2012 - 02:05 PM

View PostStill Waters, on 30 December 2012 - 08:40 PM, said:

I believe it's rare to see one shark go after another shark like that.


The shark probably just sensed a struggling animal splashing around on the surface so went for it. Same reason they get humans sometimes by mistake. You cna see int he picture it has it's eye rolled back so must have came in fast and probably didn't know it's target until after it had taken a bite.
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Posted 31 December 2012 - 02:25 PM

According to the article the little once of a school shark and the big one is a blue shark abbot 2 meters long and sharks don't discriminate, they eat other sharks too.
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Posted 31 December 2012 - 03:10 PM

am i the only one who thinks the bottom shark's head doesn't look right?

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Posted 31 December 2012 - 05:16 PM

Om nom nom.

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Posted 31 December 2012 - 06:16 PM

Two species. Therefore not cannibalism. Also dangling the smaller shark as bait smacks of animal cruelty.

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Posted 31 December 2012 - 09:32 PM

View PostChooky88, on 31 December 2012 - 06:16 PM, said:

Two species. Therefore not cannibalism. Also dangling the smaller shark as bait smacks of animal cruelty.

Doubtful the man was dangling the shark as bait; it is not easy to land a struggling shark. When you catch a fish it struggles on the line and the struggle is correctly interpreted by a predator as an easy meal. I have had fish on the line cut in half by barracuda before we could land them, and you only end up with a fish head on your line.
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