#thresher sharks

[tj-crochets]

Two thresher sharks! The space shark is made with fabric by @firesidetextiles

[pikaole]

Shark icon/wallpaper pack for patreon

[just-here-for-shark-stuff]

Have you done any fun facts about thresher sharks? Love ur blog!!! :3

Ahh that makes me so happy!! This blog is still really new and I was mostly just expecting it to be me talking to myself, so it makes me smile to know you like it too :)

I haven't had a chance to talk about thresher sharks yet, but aren't they great? All three species of threshers are just peak sharks, really - they're cool, they got big silly eyes, they always look like they just nervously asked you to prom and weren't expecting you to say yes and now they don't know what to do

How about some fun facts about the pelagic thresher? They're actually the smallest of the three thresher species (not that any of them are super big, really), and it's easy enough to confuse them with the common Atlantic thresher that we actually can't be confident we know what their range looks like! Their big eyes are a hallmark of the species (they make them look so cute and silly), and they actually decrease in size relative to the shark's body with age, so you can guesstimate a thresher's age as juveniles will have very big peepers. We can't be certain at this stage, but current research indicates that, unlike the common thresher, the pelagic thresher probably isn't warm-blooded, which has interesting implications for how even sharks within the same genus have evolved to thermoregulate differently.

Of course, one of the coolest things about pelagic threshers is their hunting strategies! These sharks literally evolved to herd fish around and then slap them with those long tails.

[sillydudeyes]

shark facts. day ten. thresher sharks.

Thresher sharks..

Thresher sharks have absurdly long tails that can be as long as the rest of their body, and they actually use them like weapons. When hunting schools of fish, a thresher shark will swim up quickly and whip its tail forward hard enough to stun or kill multiple fish at once before turning around to eat them.

okay so hear me out and lets Imagine being a tiny fish and suddenly getting hit by what is basically an underwater flyswatter moving at incredible speed. that would be terrifying.

What makes it even cooler is that threshers often hunt alone, so their tail is basically their secret hunting tool. “give this shark a built-in melee attack.”

[sharks-offical]

Thresher shark opinion?

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THRESHER SHARKS THEY'RE AWESOME

[thislooksick]

THRESHER SHARK ENJOYERS GATHER

i was going through Tumblr and realized there is not a community for these silly lil guys soooo

i took it upon myself to make one!

https://www.tumblr.com/communities/thethreshershiver

It would be so dope if you joined.....

[kaleidoscopekai]

thresher sharks are the coolest type of shark and i think everyone just needs to be honest with themselves and admit it’s the truth 😤😤😤

they can reach up to 22mph and

they have tails that make up half their length and act as whips, stunning and circling up their prey for a quick and easy lunch :)

they can do it to whole schools!!

they usually chill at around 550 meters, but have been recorded at 1500 making them some of the deepest divers

they can regulate their body temperature! so they can go in waters of almost any temperature!

i wish i could do that 🥲

and the name thresher is another word for scythe, which is a reference to their very cool tail! plus just look at their face. beautiful.

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[olive-ridley]

I keep seeing these cute “guess the shark species” slideshows l on tiktok, but they always show a pelagic thresher shark and just call it a “thresher shark,” so I realized not a lot of people might know there are three species of thresher shark. I’m going to introduce you to all of them and give you some certified marine biologist (tm) tips and tricks to notice species-specific features to look for once you see the long tail that indicates it’s in Alopiidae (since even google images messes it up sometimes).

This is a pelagic thresher shark (Alopias pelagicus). It is the smallest of the three species, and usually the one everyone thinks of. Some of the most distinguishing features to me are the slender body shape, a smooth head with no noticeable ridge, and eyes that are still somewhat large, but not noticeably so. But the most important distinguisher to me is its coloration, the white on the shark’s ventral side forms a border with the grey on it’s dorsal side, and this border goes *under* the pectoral fins, not *over*. They can be found to at least 150 m.

The common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus) is the one that’s the most annoying to find on google images, because half the images are of the pelagic thresher. It is the largest species of thresher shark. As you can clearly see, these guys are a bit chunkier and also don’t have a noticeably large eye, and they have a smooth head that lacks a noticeable ridge. But the most important distinguisher for these guys is also related to their coloring. As you can kind of see in this photo, the border between the white of the ventral side and grey of the dorsal side goes well above the pectoral fin, so they have a spot of white that goes *above* their fin. This is the easiest way to distinguish them from pelagic thresher sharks, since you might see them within the same size range, so going off of body shape and size alone isn’t the most reliable.

And lastly, we have the bigeye thresher shark (Alopias superciliosus), so hopefully now it’s clear why I was harping on the eyes so much for the last two. Their gigantic uwu eyes are definitely a distinguishing feature, but the most prominent feature you want to look for during identification is the large ridge between the top of their head and their body. It’s super noticeable in person as well, and is not a feature shared by the other two sharks. These are the most easily distinguishable from the other two, and can be found to a depth of up to 723 m.

All thresher sharks are ovoviparous, so they give live birth! And they’re all cutie patooties who deserve to be appreciated.