Huge Great White Shark Pregnant with Record 14 Pups Was Caught and Sold in Taiwan
A huge, female incredible white shark pregnant with a record 14 puppies was coincidentally gotten by fishers off the shore of Taiwan and sold at a fish showcase on Wednesday (March 20). The huge mamma was acquired for under $2,000 by a Taiwanese taxidermy organization, Taiwan English News revealed.
The pictures from nearby news organizations of the incredible white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and the puppies that were removed of her are difficult to accept. At in excess of 15 feet long (4.7 meters), the shark is greater than a little vehicle and is likely not what most fishers need in their nets. The shark's 14 little guys look as if they were almost completely created and prepared to take on the untamed sea yet were held back when their mom was executed.
The 14 puppies this mamma shark was conveying likely imprint a record number for the species, said David Ebert, a shark researcher and the executive of the Pacific Shark Research Center at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in Moss Landing, California. "It is uncommon to get pregnant white sharks, so in any event they had the option to archive this with photos," Ebert disclosed to Live Science in an email. [Image Gallery: Great White Sharks]
"From a logical point of view, it's extraordinary data for us as researcher in light of the fact that pregnant females [that researchers can study] are rare," reverberated George Burgess, a sea life scholar and chief emeritus of the Florida Program for Shark Research at the University of Florida. Burgess disclosed to Live Science that before this female, the most astounding number of little guys he could recall a white shark having was 12.
The pictures from nearby news organizations of the incredible white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and the puppies that were removed of her are difficult to accept. At in excess of 15 feet long (4.7 meters), the shark is greater than a little vehicle and is likely not what most fishers need in their nets. The shark's 14 little guys look as if they were almost completely created and prepared to take on the untamed sea yet were held back when their mom was executed.
The 14 puppies this mamma shark was conveying likely imprint a record number for the species, said David Ebert, a shark researcher and the executive of the Pacific Shark Research Center at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in Moss Landing, California. "It is uncommon to get pregnant white sharks, so in any event they had the option to archive this with photos," Ebert disclosed to Live Science in an email. [Image Gallery: Great White Sharks]
"From a logical point of view, it's extraordinary data for us as researcher in light of the fact that pregnant females [that researchers can study] are rare," reverberated George Burgess, a sea life scholar and chief emeritus of the Florida Program for Shark Research at the University of Florida. Burgess disclosed to Live Science that before this female, the most astounding number of little guys he could recall a white shark having was 12.
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