No hibernation for basking sharks

Daniel Weihs ()
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Daniel Weihs: the Technion Israel Institute of Technology

Nature, 1999, vol. 400, issue 6746, 717-718

Abstract: The basking shark feeds not on humans, but on mouthfuls of plankton. During winter, however, the concentration of plankton falls below a certain threshold. What do the sharks do? Previous wisdom held that they hibernated, but a reanalysis of the energetic costs of feeding and the energy content of the plankton indicates that the sharks don't need to hibernate because the threshold plankton concentration is much lower than previously thought.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/23368

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