Hunting thresher shark


Thresher sharks use their long, strong caudal fin (tail) to stun and sometimes wound their prey. They occasionally also use it to attack seabirds. The tip of the tail can attain 90 kmh!! You can watch it in action in this video from the Discovery Channel. It is thought that they sometimes hunt in groups so as to gather schools of fish in a specific area before attacking them.
Alopias vulpinus is one of the rare sharks that can jump out of water, and it is rather good at it. Unfortunately the only videos of threshers jumping out of the water I could find are either very low quality or of a shark in distressed trying to escape people fishing them.

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