#cookiecutter shark

[feelingautistic]

Cookiecutter sharks get their name from the cookie-shaped bite marks they leave in prey. The bite marks are caused by the shark suctioning onto their prey with suctorial lips and spinning rapidly to dislodge flesh using their serrated teeth.

#marine animals #marine biology #shark #sharks #fish facts #shark facts #sharkblr #fish #fun facts #science #cookiecutter shark

[catnoli]

gingerbread cookiecutter shark 🦈🍪 ive gotten soooo many requests for a cookiecutter shark!! so here he is as a gingerbread cookie…winter-ified ☃️

#sharks #i love sharks #shark week #shark #ocean #my art #illustration #art #artists on tumblr #cookiecutter shark #winter #gingerbread

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #719

Smalltooth cookiecutter shark!

This shark is most well known for its parasitic feeding behaviour, boring into the flesh of bigger animals (and even submarines, sometimes) and leaving behind distinct round scars. The shark achieves this through its marvelous specialised dentition! The teeth of the upper jaw are thin and pointed, while the teeth of the lower jaw are wide, triangular and connected to each other. To feed, the shark must first secure itself to the side of the bigger animal via creating a strong vacuum with its fleshy lips and sinking in the upper jaw teeth for good measure, after which the shark will spin its body and slice a clean chunk of flesh off with the sharp lower jaw teeth! The shark also eats smaller prey, like squid, preferably whole.

When the time comes to replace their old teeth (as all sharks do), the smalltooth cookiecutter shark loses all of its lower jaw teeth at once and eats the whole row to conserve calcium.

#fish #biology #fish facts #fishfact #zoology #shark #sharks #marine biology #marine life #marine animals #sea creatures #sea life #sea animals #cookiecutter shark #smalltooth cookiecutter shark #teeth

[sharkie-malarkie]

DYK…

cookie cutter sharks never grow bigger than 18-20 inches (~50 cm).

cookie cutter sharks gets their common name from its feeding strategy of biting off small chunks of much larger animals

cookie cutter sharks are small and lives much of its life in the deep water column (mesopelagic).

cookie cutter sharks have been involved in four confirmed, unprovoked bites, all of which occurred in hawaii.

#marine life #sea creatures #shark #marine biology #sharks #ocean #sealife #aquatic #sea #water #cookiecutter shark #i like sharks (and getou’s balls)

[neurosharky]

Top ten shark facts? 🦈

I mean I don't rly rank shark facts, so heres just ten random ones:

1. Lemon sharks have a buddy system, where they will stick to another shark for higher chances of survival. They swim so closely to each other sometimes, that it looks as if they're holding hands...or rather fins.

2. Great white sharks can change the color of their upper body half to better match the surrounding water aka they're capable of camouflaging themselves!

3. Hammerheads are amazing at finding prey, due to the hammer having a bigger amount of ampullae of lorenzini (tiny organs that can detect electromagnetic fields). They swerve their hammer left and right to scan the area and can detect stuff like stingrays even when they are buried in the sand.

4. The waters around Australia have the biggest variety in shark species! If you want to encounter loads of different ones, thats the place to go! Theres said to be over 150 species there!

5. Sharks have the ability to remember and recognize humans. They respond positively cuddly to divers that have helped them before and Cristina Zenato (the women thats known for removing hooks from sharks) has described experiences where the shark will lie in her lap and let her remove the hook peacefully, because it knows she will help. This speaks a lot for their intelligence.

6. There are shark species that are capable of biofluorescence (absorbing & the reemitting light) and bioluminescense (producing the light themselves). An example for the first one would be shy swell sharks and an example for the latter are kitefin sharks.

7. Tiger sharks are known as the garbage cans of the ocean, because they are capable of eating absolutely everything. Not only do they have super strong jaws & teeth, but their stomachs are actually highly acidic and have barely any problems breaking down the weirdest things.

8. The dark shyshark gets the second half of its name due to its reaction when threatend. It actually curls up and puts its tail over its eyes!

9. The cookiecutter shark actually cuts cookie shaped holes into its prey and usually does that while the prey is still moving, kinda like a snack to go. They also are known for biting into submarines.

10. The hierarchy between different shark species in an area is not always just determined by size or strength. The amount of time the shark has spend there and how familiar it is with the environment, plays a role as well! Some researchers observed a big shark making place for the smaller ones, because it was still new to the area.

(All facts stem from documentaries, scientific papers or the pages of professional divers. I do however not guarantee that they are definitely correct, or haven't been disproven since)

#sharks #shark thoughts #shark facts #marine biology #marine life #marine animals #shark #great white shark #tiger shark #hammerhead #lemon shark #cookiecutter shark #dark shyshark

[fish-daily]

cookie cutter shark?

fish 43 - cookiecutter shark

#fish daily #fish #cookiecutter shark #cookie cutter shark #shark #drawing

[themesopelagiczone]

earth fact time. cookiecutter sharks took down nuclear submarines during the cold war!! they'd bite off chunks of the rubber around sonar domes and cause the oil to leak, blinding submarines and forcing them back for repairs. the americans thought it was some kind of secret soviet technology but actually, it was these little cat-sized, glow in the dark bitches that will bite anything that moves.

medium | business insider

photos: noaa observer project

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[ur-gay-shark-dad]

#shark thoughts #shitpost #shark #hammerhead shark #saw shark #lemon shark #cookiecutter shark

[m-jay-gee]

unfortunately there's only 10 options so i had to put my personal top 10

#sharks #lemon shark #hammerhead shark #goblin shark #cookiecutter shark #basking shark #thresher shark #megalodon #nurse shark #whale shark #squatina #squatina squatina #poll #polls #my poll #my polls

[amemlususnaturae]

#shark #whale shark #crested hornshark #port jackson shark #great white shark #tawny nurse shark #leopard epaulette shark #goldfish #fish #ray #remora #hammerhead shark #short-fin mako #kite-fin shark #catshark #sawfish #cookiecutter shark #turtle #Youtube

[wizardichor]

A well known fact among those who know me, I adore sharks and was originally studying to be an elasmobranchologist before switching my degree over to game design.

Today one of my partners asked me what kind of shark we would each be, and we very quickly and simultaneously agreed that they were a nurse shark. Figuring out what shark I am was harder because I have a heavy bias favoring goblin sharks, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's the shark I am. After much deliberation and showing them different sharks, we have concluded I am a cookiecutter shark!

Me, if you even care:

#not witchcraft related #sharks #cookiecutter shark #me if you even care

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

#my first poll! #polls #fish #fishblr #shark #sharks #deep sea life #deep sea #deep sea fish #deep sea creatures #deep sea shark #goblin shark #frilled shark #megamouth shark #greenland shark #sleeper shark #cookiecutter shark #bluntnose sixgill shark #ninja lanternshark #lanternshark #kitefin shark #my polls

[mthevlamister]

Uh oh we found a new comfort animal (I spoilered the image in this chat bc I didn’t know if people liked my ideal form)

#cookiecutter shark #sharks #cookie cutter shark #I’m totally normal about animals

[revon-aurora-borealis]

i couldnt even get past the opening paragraph its that fucking inaccurate

#shark #sharks #orca #whale shark #great white shark #cookiecutter shark #tiger shark #basking shark #apex predator #ocean #sea #i fucking love sharks btw #marine life #marine biology #save the sharks

[lilywily143]

Day 1! Shark!

This is a cookiecutter shark and please don't google them. Not that the shark itself is terrifying, but you will 100% see pictures of the damage they do to animals

Which is leave a cookie sized bite in things like poor seals.... and look.. animals need to eat but it doesn't look nice. Some of them might cause trypophobia (fear of multiple holes) and it's pretty nasty gore

All of these charcaters made for this challenge will be for the ocean based au

#lilywily post #murder drones #lilywily art #Murder drones au #monthly art challenge #Ocean au #Cookiecutter shark #Cookie cutter shark #Murder drones oc #fishuary2024 #fishuary

[rotationing]

i love these creatures

some of my favorite creatures

cookiecutter shark my beloved

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