Thresher Shark
Alopias vulpinus
Half shark, half tail, and all expert hunter.
SeaPals' thresher shark is represented by the common thresher, whose upper tail lobe can equal the rest of its body. It circles schooling fish and cracks the tail like a whip to stun several meals at once.
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Open Ocean Deck
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Creature passport
- Home
- Common threshers range through coastal and open temperate and tropical oceans worldwide.
- Favorite foods
- They hunt anchovies, sardines, herring, mackerel, squid, and other schooling prey.
- Size check
- Up to about 20 ft (6 m), with roughly half being tail—bus length
Tell-your-friends facts
Four wonderfully wild things
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The enormous upper tail lobe is nearly as long as the shark's body.
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Threshers sometimes leap completely clear of the sea.
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Their small teeth suit swallowing stunned fishes rather than cutting huge prey.
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Developing pups hatch inside the mother and eat unfertilized eggs before live birth.
Ocean superpower
Built to be amazing
A lightning-fast tail slap can stun multiple schooling fishes in one strike.
Junior scientist tip
What should I look for?
The impossibly long, scythe-shaped upper tail lobe is unmistakable.
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