Basking Shark
Beginning of Essay
Among the masters of the sea, lies a sluggish monster. Cetorhinus
maximus is just that, although more generally known as the . This
interesting animal has some unusual characteristics which include its physical,
behavioral, reproductive, and feeding attribute .... Middle of Essay .... 1996, 21).
Basking sharks have, at some point in time, also been known as the
elephant shark, the Bone shark, sailfish shark, and sunfish. The reason this
shark is occasionally referred to as the Bone shark, is because when they die,
they sink (their density is greater then the water's density) and are ravaged
among the sea floor, by rocks, etc. (Steel, 1985, 132). However, when they do
finally wash up on shore they are usually quite mutilated; their skeletons are all
that remain. Hence the name, Bone shark. Although the Basking shark most
appropriately resembles the Whale shark, its closest relative happens to ....
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