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Monday, 28 February 2005 |
 Scientific name: Isurus oxyinchusSpanish name: Mako de Aleta Corta
Description: the short fin Mako is also called the bonito or Mako shark. It is the most spindle-shaped shark. With a long, conical snout, short pectoral fins and crescent- shaped caudal fin. Its back is indigo blue, and the belly white. The short fin Mako is the shark featured in Ernest Hemingway's novel The old Man and the Sea.
Size: it reaches 3.95 meters in length.
Distribution: they live offshore in tropical and temperate waters, from the surface down to 150 meters. They are rarely seen, excepting open-water divers.
Feeding: its teeth are visible, even when its mouth is close, they look like long, slender smooth edged daggers. It uses its speed for capturing fish and squid. Big Makos also feed on billfishes and cetaceans.
Reproduction: short fin Makos are viviparous, but lack a placental connection. Litters of 4 to 16 pups are common. Older embryos eat some of the eggs and smaller embryos while still in the uterus.
Particularities: its well known as a sport fish, capable of spectacular leaps of 6 meters, in the air when hooked and of achieving bursts of speed of more than 35 Km/h. There are proves that one of this sharks traveled 2128 Km in 37 days, an average of 58 Km per day.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 November 2005 )
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