Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed.
1 A yellowfin tuna, a great barracuda, and, if they had just been a little better prepared, a twenty-foot thresher shark .
2 The sharks in the footage are "pelagic" or "open water" threshers , one of three species of thresher shark .
4 Understanding how thresher sharks feed will help with efforts to protect them, Oliver said.
5 The Sword-fish and Thresher Shark also help to destroy this harmless giant of the deep.
6 How does the Thresher Shark hunt its prey?
7 Thresher sharks use their impressive tails to stun several prey at once with sharp "tail slaps", scientists have confirmed.
8 Looking like big bluish shadows, thresher sharks went by, eight feet long and gifted with an extremely acute sense of smell.
9 Records from fisheries published in 2003 revealed that numbers of thresher sharks have fallen by 75% in just 15 years through overfishing.
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