Animals Larger than a small car and was pregnant with 14 puppies: that was last week the catch of the day for some Taiwanese fishermen. They caught the giant white shark by mistake, and sold for something less than $ 2,000 (1.765 euro) to a taxidermist that the shark wanted to set up.
All was the female shark longer than a small car (4.7 metres), she was no match against the net of the fishermen. How exactly was captured, is still unclear, but presumably she ended up accidentally in the vissersnet after which they will not be touched. Then choked the beast. the
The female was pregnant and a whopping 14 pups that are almost fully developed. Unfortunately died the haaienmoeder just before she has her puppies could bear.
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Biologists are already very grateful for this unique opportunity. First of all, there was never a pregnant shark being studied that as much as puppies do. “It is also very rare to have a pregnant white shark to catch,” says David Ebert, director of the Pacific Shark Research Center in California. “Good that the fishermen are all documented with the aid of photographs.”
Sharks have two wombs which biologists suspect that this instance seven boy in each uterus carried.
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