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thresher shark

[′thresh·ər ‚shärk]
(vertebrate zoology)
Common name for fishes in the family Alopiidae; pelagic predacious sharks of generally wide distribution that have an extremely long, whiplike tail with which they thrash the water, destroying schools of small fishes.
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David Thomas, third from left, from Bryncethin, Bridgend, caught the biggest thresher shark ever landed in Welsh waters
Dr Simon Oliver, founder of the Thresher Shark Research and Conservation Project and a researcher based at University of Liverpool, filmed pelagic thresher sharks as they hunted off Pescador Island in the Philippines.
Llwynog y mr ydi enw Cymraeg y morgi "thresher shark" (Alopeccas vulpes).
* Thresher sharks Another shark species you might be fortunate enough to see surfing off Gower is the thresher shark - now listed as vulnerable due to over fishing for its highly-prized meat.
With a continuous food supply, thresher shark embryos feed during the entire developmental period and do not acquire the distended yolk stomachs of sand tiger shark and mako embryos.
The thresher shark was found on Hayle beach by surfers who thought it was a dolphin.
Had it been a thresher shark, they could have kept it.
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