Great White Sharks. That's all this title needs to say really

We're gonna need a bigger boat! And mouthwash.

Jaws.

That one word will make you think of the Great White Shark that ran riot in the Hollywood film.

People literally were afraid to go into the ocean for a paddle after seeing that movie.

And why?

Because Great White Sharks are real.

They eat humans and seals all the time. They are  massively strong, fast and efficient killers.

Great White's definitely fit in the wondrous category of one wondering whether these animals are fearless man eaters or misunderstood monsters.

So it should be no surprise to any one that Animals Eating Animals is choosing to do a photo essay on this fearsome shark. We could probably do an essay on their damn razor teeth alone, but really you just want to see the pictures of blood and guts eh?

Chum away then!

The discovery of flying seals surprised even Mr G White.

The great white shark is more properly known as Carcharodon carcharias. They are found lurking in coastal surface waters in all the Earth's major oceans.

They have not yet been discovered in the Sea of Tranquility however. The great white shark is very well known for its massive size, with the largest individuals known to have approached or exceeded 6 metres (20 ft) in length and 2,268 kilograms (5,000 lb) in weight.

No wonder Peter Benchly wrote a book about one of them. Or was the book really about a family with issues?

I forget which. But I never forgot how quotable Darth Vader is in Star Wars!

Nom Nom Nom

What do great white's eat? These beasts are one of the primary predators of marine mammals like sealion. They are also known to prey upon a variety of other marine animals including fish, fin footed animals like seals, and seabirds. Unlike the killer shark of the movie Jaws, great white do not generally ruthless hunt down men for lunch. Still, it does happen and reported attacks are common enough but are very widely reported when they occur, further adding to the shark's reputation.

Having a whale of a time...

Believe it or not, great white sharks are not fussy eaters, despite what you may have read in the newspapers. In the above picture the shark is dining on a dead whale. A DEAD whale. The shark just found the whale floating round and he thought, "hey, Free Whale Smorgasboard, I'm in!". Yuck, who the heck knows why that whale was dead and floating in the ocean.... it does remind me of this crocodiles' pig eating behaviour...

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Blue shark takes another man's catch. How rude!

Blue shark takes another man's catch. How rude!

Good keen Kiwi bloke Scott Brenton managed to have this blue shark try and steal his catch.

Brenton and fellow fisherman Andrew Harding encountered the blue shark about 500 metres offshore in Fitzroy Bay, Wellington. The shark was apparently so docile that Brenton was able to hand feed it.

"You could tell by its movements that it wasn't an aggressive shark. I was feeding it fish but it wasn't attacking them, it just slowly grabbed hold of them and took them away," he said. 

It must be the silly season in New Zealand

Story found here.

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Shark eats shark

Check out this cheeky shark off Kaiteriteri Beach near Nelson as he tries to nick a man's catch,

Originally posted on Reddit, the pic shows a small school shark on the end of a fishing line being bitten into by a much larger blue shark just as it's about to be hauled into the boat.

"Mancubus" posted the photo on December 28, 2012 with the headline: ''Caught a small shark … next minute''.

New Zealand's Department of Conservation shark expert Clinton Duffy, a marine scientist, said the shot actually captured a common event.

''Blue sharks often steal fish off people's lines at this time of year and they also commonly eat other shark species.''

This image reminds us of this awesome image of a shark taking the bait:

And let's not forget this  classic shot of a shark eating a marlin:

We've plenty more shark pictures here, here and here (that one's NSFW). If the sharks ever decide they need to check the ph level of the water, they should try these best ph meters.

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Sharks are the bomb! Or how they ate the sailors of the USS Indianapolis

USS Indianapolis

By now in your life you must have seen the movie Jaws. It's quite possibly one of the best movies in movie making history and it certainly has one of the best characters to ever captain a boat in a movie. As the shark hunting lads settle in one night after a hard day's shark chasing, Captain Quint tells a story. Probably one of the most chilling stories a kid could ever hear about.....

The USS Indianapolis was a vessel in the United States Navy. She holds a famous place in history due to the circumstances of her sinking, which led to the greatest single loss of life at sea in the history of the U.S. Navy. On 30 July 1945, shortly after delivering critical parts for the first atomic bomb that was to be dropped on Japan, the Indianapolis fell victim to a torpedo from a Japanese submarine. Of 1,196 crewmen aboard, approximately 300 men went down with the ship.

The remaining crew of 880 were cast into the briny deep. Only 316 sailors survived their time in the water. If the remainder didn't drown, they faced the horrible death of being eaten by the sharks that found them.

It's thought that the Indianapolis sinking resulted in the most shark attacks on humans in a single incident in history. It's figured the majority of the sharks were oceanic whitetip shark species. Tiger Sharks might have also killed and eaten some of the survivors.

The drowning sailor loving Oceanic whitetip shark

Imagine being huddled in a large group of people, injured from the sinking, suffering from exposure or hypothermia, hungry and dying of thirst AND you have to worry about the circling sharks! It must have been terrible.

After 4 days the group of sailors was noticed by a US plane patrolling the area. It turns out the US Navy had not realised the Indianapolis had been sunk!

Image source: Malcom Nobbs - check out his site, it's fully of great underwater photography.

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Perfect shot of a piranha being caught by a crocodile

Piranha III: Revenge of the Crocodiles

Pictures of Crocodiles eating fish, sharks and the odd bird

Crocodiles don't need to spend all day lying in wait for baby elephants to get them selves a feed - all they have do is swim around the river catching fish.

Fish are a good source of protein so it's natural for a crocodile to want to lock his jaws on a tasty morsel of piranha or shark!

Chomp Chomp

Here's a picture of an Australian crocodile eating a bullshark that had the misfortune had to swim up the river where danger lurked....

Bird munching

Crocodile eating a crunchy crab

Crocodile dining on a pelican

Here's a crocodile that's caught a shark and has chosen to eat it on the side of the muddy river bank.

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Shark eats Marlin

Here's a picture of a  mako shark attacking a marlin that had been caught and was to be tagged for release. It's from an awesome perspective of the photographer being in with the water with the big fish.

NZH had the story:

Al McGlashan was in the water off Port Stephens, 200km north of Sydney in New South Wales, to film the tag and release of the marlin when the mako shark swooped, tearing at the body of the hooked gamefish metres away from him. He is convinced the shark moved in only after McGlashan, who had been taking close-ups of the action, moved back to take panoramic pictures of the marlin's release.

"That shark was there watching me the whole five minutes I was in the water, and what is even more impressive is that it waited till I moved out of the way before attacking the marlin"

Before jumping into the water to film the tag and release, when the marlin had been hauled in close to the catch boat, McGlashan and his crew had marked a second fish on the fish finder, which they thought to be another marlin.

However, he now believes it was the shark stalking the marlin. "In all my life I have seen some amazing things - including a few shark attacks - but never have I been witness to such a spectacle from outside the safety of the boat.

"As sad as it was to see the marlin eaten, seeing nature in its most raw form and capturing it all on film, both stills and HD footage, was a once-in-a-lifetime experience."

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People love sharks, this page about sharks being fearless hunters is one of Animals Eating Animals most popular pages. You might also want to check out this one of Great White Sharks eating seals.

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Sharks: Fearless man eaters or misunderstood monsters?

Is there something stuck in my tooth?

Sharks! You love, I love em and surfers and seals hate them. Tiger sharks, hammer heads and great whites - all known as kings of the ocean. Fearless man eaters or misunderstood monsters? Here's a few pictures of sharks eating and munching their way few the ocean's bounty - as to their true nature, I'll let you decide.....

Here's a Great White Shark greedily trying to shove ALL the fish down his gullet. Do fish have gullets? I have no idea. Perhaps you could ask this crocodile if he noticed while he was munching on a shark..

The above shark was the man eater that was filmed in the extremely popular documentary Jaws which was directed by the well known animal rights activist, Steven Speilberg. Jaws famously ate Spielberg's boat, which cause his camera operator to quip the now legendary line, "we're gonna need a bigger boat!"

Sadly, a shark attack victim - surfers are often mistaken for seals and attacked.

Here's some sharks doing what they do best: eating baby seals. And who would blame them? Baby seals are delicious!! I eat one everyday!

And if you ever go to a beach wearing a bikini and have pretty damn fine rack you better watch out for the Tiger Shark. These sharks are true predators, taking any chance they can get to feed on their prey....

If you think this tiger shark is interesting, check out the massive jaws of the tiger fish!

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What does a foot taste like to a Shark?

When Sharks eat feet! What to they think they taste like?

Let's face it, before Jaws gave sharks in general a bad name, they already had a bad name as man eaters. Since the first person dipped their toes in the ocean, sharks have honed in on man's scent, sensing a tasty lunch. That, or the shark has incorrectly identified a dude on a surf board as a seal. A sweet, juicy seal.

Here's some pictures of the after affects of a shark that had a foot fetish:

While we all real know that fish are friends (not food) but tell that to polar beers. They seem to have a thing for human feet too...

This picture was the result of a polar beer attack on an Eskimo

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