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Hammerhead Shark

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Facts Of Hammerhead Shark 
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Carcharhiniformes
Family: Sphyrnidae
Genus: Sphyrna
Scientific Name: Sphyrna Zygaena
Type: Fish
Diet: Carnivore
Size: 3.5-6m (11.5-20ft)
Weight: 230-450kg (500-1000lbs)
Top Speed:  40km/h (25mph)
Lifespan: 20-25 years
Lifestyle:  Herd
Conservation Status: Threatened
Colour: Grey, Brown, White
Skin Type: Smooth
Favourite Food: Fish
Habitat: Warm waters and continental shelves
Average Litter Size: 26
Main Prey: Fish, Squid, Octopus
Predators: Tiger Shark, Great White Shark, Killer Whale
Special Features: Broad, flat head and large eyes

 Hammerhead Sharks are fittingly named after their level formed heads. Hammerhead sharks are substantial flesh eating fish that go after extensive fish and periodically hammerhead sharks will chase little water vertebrates. Hammerhead sharks are found in the hotter waters of seas worldwide yet hammerhead sharks are especially found in waterfront waters, and along mainland racks. The shallow waters that the hammerhead sharks possess permit the hammerhead shark to chase prey all the more effortlessly. There are 9 unique types of hammerhead shark around the world, running from 3-ft to 20-ft long! Hammerhead sharks are not usually known to assault people but rather can be forceful if a human came into contact with a hammerhead shark.

 The level molded leader of the hammerhead shark is thought to permit the hammerhead shark to distinguish prey all the more effectively, as it expands the hammerhead sharks affectability to sonar action. Hammerhead sharks are thought to utilize sonar waves location correspondingly to their five fundamental detects, so it resembles the hammerhead shark has an intuition. The state of the leader of the hammerhead shark is comprised of two projections on either side of the substance of the hammerhead shark, which gives the hammerhead shark the head shape that looks like a mallet relatively rectangular fit as a fiddle. The eyes and nostrils of the hammerhead shark are found at the finishes of the sledge permitting the hammerhead shark to have better vision and smell of the encompassing water.

 In the same way as other different types of shark the hammerhead shark is a single seeker amid the night, however amid the daytime hammerhead sharks are known to shape schools of up to 100 hammerhead shark people. Hammerhead sharks are usually observed in bigger gatherings amid the late spring months when the hammerhead sharks are moving together looking for cooler waters.
The immense hammerhead shark is the biggest types of hammerhead shark and one of only a handful couple of types of hammerhead shark that is possibly hazardous to people. This is because of the sheer size of the mammoth hammerhead shark and furthermore on the grounds that the monster hammerhead is known to have a forceful personality. Different types of hammerhead shark tend to posture practically no danger to people as these types of hammerhead shark are by and large considerably littler than the monster hammerhead shark and are somewhat more settled in their inclination.
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