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Nature 400, 717-718 (19 August 1999) | doi:10.1038/23368
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Marine biology: No hibernation for basking sharks
Daniel Weihs1
The phrase 'gentle giants' and the word sharks do not usually appear in the same sentence — sharks normally evoke the image of a bloody, tooth-filled mouth as in the film Jaws. But the biggest species of selachians (sharks) are, in fact, placid, slowly moving grazers that feed by filtering plankton.
- Daniel Weihs is at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.
e-mail: Email: dweihs@techunix.technion.ac.il
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