The Thresher Shark:

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The Thresher Shark
The Fish Stuner of the Sea
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Description

• Fish
• Cold-Blooded
• Can be 20 feet long
• Can be brown, blue, or purple.
• Is invertebrate

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Food Sources

• Carnivore
• Swims into schools of fish and hits them with
  its tail and stuns them
• They eat a lot of different kinds of fish

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Habitat

• Lives in the sunlight zone
• Prefer open oceans
• Young found onshore
• Common in coastal waters

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Predator

• Only humans
• Get caught in nets
• Sometimes get hunted

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Environmental Impact

• Pollution, oil spills, and waste dumping are
  killing the thresher shark
• When the thresher shark eats a fish that has
  oil in it the thresher shark eats all of the oil
• When the thresher shark comes to shore it might
  eat some of the garbage thats in the water

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Interesting Facts

• The thresher shark is so strong that it can jump
  clean out of the water
• A thresher shark can live up to 20 years

A thresher sharks tail is half of the total size.
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