A very special sighting of a BASKING SHARK for us, on our Santa Cruz Island trip Sunday! Kristin Campell captured this rare drone video of this shark "grazing" on zooplankton, mouth wide open. The population of Basking Shaks in the Eastern North Pacific is as low as 300-500 animals, and they are sighted only periodically in southern California. Historical estimates were as high as 3,000-5,000, but their populations have not recovered despite decades since any significant harvesting. | Pacific Of
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A very special sighting of a BASKING SHARK for us, on our Santa Cruz Island trip Sunday! Kristin Campell captured this rare drone video of this shark "grazing" on zooplankton, mouth wide open. The population of Basking Shaks in the Eastern North Pacific is as low as 300-500 animals, and they are sighted only periodically in southern California. Historical estimates were as high as 3,000-5,000, but their populations have not recovered despite decades since any significant harvesting. | Pacific Of
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Did you know... 🦈 🦈 🦈 A basking shark’s mouth can open over 1 metre wide – big enough to fit a human inside (don’t worry, they only eat plankton 😅). These gentle giants can filter up to 2,000 litres of seawater per hour as they cruise with their mouths wide open, using specialised gill rakers to trap tiny plankton. More cool facts: 🦈 Second-largest fish on Earth (after the whale shark) 🦈 Their feeding creates a swirling “toroidal” water flow, making filtration super efficient 🦈 They can d
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Did you know... 🦈 🦈 🦈 A basking shark’s mouth can open over 1 metre wide – big enough to fit a human inside (don’t worry, they only eat plankton 😅). These gentle giants can filter up to 2,000 litres of seawater per hour as they cruise with their mouths wide open, using specialised gill rakers to trap tiny plankton. More cool facts: 🦈 Second-largest fish on Earth (after the whale shark) 🦈 Their feeding creates a swirling “toroidal” water flow, making filtration super efficient 🦈 They can d
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Open wide! This fish might have a big mouth, but it eats tiny prey. The basking shark is the second largest fish in the sea and uses that wide mouth to filter feed tiny, planktonic prey. Unfortunately, the basking shark is considered vulnerable to extinction. Oceana runs campaigns to win policy changes that protect important marine animals like the basking shark. Learn more: https://bit.ly/2Nl9rt7 | Oceana
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Open wide! This fish might have a big mouth, but it eats tiny prey. The basking shark is the second largest fish in the sea and uses that wide mouth to filter feed tiny, planktonic prey. Unfortunately, the basking shark is considered vulnerable to extinction. Oceana runs campaigns to win policy changes that protect important marine animals like the basking shark. Learn more: https://bit.ly/2Nl9rt7 | Oceana
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