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Cookie Cutter Shark
Pictures Showing This Small Shark with a Distinctive Bite |
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The cookiecutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, eats by taking round bites out of its victims with its long teeth and powerful jaws, mostly attacking large fish, dolphin and whales. The belly of the cookie cutter shark has a small patch of bioluminescence on it. This is thought to lure fish to it in the dark, deep ocean environment where the fish see only the patch and think the prey is small. When the predatory fish tries to strike at the shark, the shark strikes back to gain a meal. The cookiecutter reproduces by aplacental viviparity, or ovoviviparity, which means the pups hatch from eggs and develop inside the female's body. There is no placenta to nourish the pups.
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Picture of a cookie cutter shark wound, Isistius brasiliensis, on a yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares, Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific
Picture #: 020434 |
Stock photo of short finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus, spyhopping, showing bite from cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, Kona coast, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific
Picture #: 020464 |
Image of a cookie cutter shark wound, Isistius brasiliensis, on a sei whale , Balaenoptera borealis, Azores Islands, Portugal, North Atlantic
Picture #: 024955 |
Photo of a short finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus, spyhopping, showing bite from cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, Kona coast, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific
Picture #: 028907 |
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Picture of a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, lower jaw removes plug of flesh from large prey, found worldwide, depths 0-3500 meters, specimen
Picture #: 076633-D |
Stock photo of cookie cutter shark wound, Isistius brasiliensis, on belly of bigeye tuna, caught off Kona Coast, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.
Picture #: 029129 |
Image of a wound from a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, on humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, spyhopping, Kona, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 089784 |
Photo of a large wound from a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, on a long-snouted spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris, adult leaping, and small whalesucker, Remora australis, off Kona Coast, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.
Picture #: 029228 |
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Picture of a of cookie cutter shark wound, Isistius brasiliensis, on a pantropical spotted dolphin, Stenella attenuata, Kona Coast, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 033644 |
Stock photo of a fast-swimming orca, or killer whale, Orcinus orca, as it pushes up a lens of water in front of its rostrum. Water spills out of crater wound on back, left by the bite of a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, King Bank, New Zealand, South Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 035201 |
Image of a round crater wound on side of head from bite of cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, on an offshore bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, with rake marks on head from teeth of other dolphins, in open ocean over King Bank, New Zealand, South Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 035205 |
Photo of a baby sperm whale calf, Physeter macrocephalus, an endangered species, with remoras, and white scars from bites of cookie cutter shark, , Isistius brasiliensis, Kona, Hawaii, Central Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 035522 |
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Picture of cookie cutter shark wounds, Isistius brasiliensis, on a diving Minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Bear Island Barents sea North Atlantic
Picture #: 043848 |
Stock photo of a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, lateral view, pen and ink illustration
Picture #: 067257 |
Image of a wound from a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, on a spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris, North West Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii, Pacific
Picture #: 078463 |
Photo of a wound from a cookie cutter shark, Isistius brasiliensis, on short finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus, Kailua Kona, Big Island, Hawaii, Pacific
Picture #: 089660 |
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