627 Anatomy of a great white shark
"Is the great white shark dead?"
"Why do you want to kill great white sharks?"
"I want to ask, is it the murderer of several biting incidents?"
"When will the beach be open again?"
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As soon as the shark investigation team disembarked, a large number of questions came from the reporter.
Sam looked at Liu Wei and Nick and nodded, motioning for him to deal with the reporter.
A crane prepared in advance by the beach lifted the great white shark into the cargo box of the haulage truck.
Liu Wei said goodbye to Sam and got into Professor Nick's car to go to the shark laboratory at the University of Western Australia.
The truck hauls the great white shark to the ground outside the research room.
Nick took a water hose and came over.
Before the dissection, the body of the great white shark was rinsed and then tested for vital characteristics.
The great white shark is dead.
Nick immediately organized the personnel to start the autopsy, and he put on gloves to get his hands on it.
"Brothers, the dissection begins, from now on, I need your vision and thinking to follow me!" Liu Wei filmed.
"The body length is four meters nine, the mouth width is 90 centimeters, and the serration length is ......"
Nick began to count the body of the great white shark.
Liu Wei walked around from behind Nick and walked to the head of the great white shark and photographed the shark's eyes, "Before Professor Nick moves the knife, I will first give you a science about the eyes of the great white shark."
I have mentioned many times that the great white shark is a creature with very keen six senses, and its vision is very good.
We know that visibility in the deep ocean is so low that light cannot reach the deep sea, and great white sharks can move freely through the deep waters, identify predators and competitors, and react.
There is a reflex layer behind the cornea of the great white shark's eye, which we call the choroidal layer, which will emit faint light back to the great white shark's eye, so that the great white shark can see more clearly in the deep water.
Great white sharks can see as much in deep waters as tigers can see at night, and six times as much as humans.
Good vision is also an advantage for its surprise attacks, and it has quietly approached before many of its prey have even spotted it.
We usually have a saying on our lips that God will open a window and close a door.
The great white shark has good vision, but the eyes are also the most vulnerable part of its body, and when attacking its prey, it is also the eyes that are most likely to be injured, because there are many marine creatures in the great white shark's food chain that have a strong ability to defend themselves.
For example, South African fur seals, sea lions, etc.
They are a formidable opponent for great white sharks, but eating them can give the body plenty of calories, and usually a South African fur seal can guarantee the caloric consumption of an adult great white shark for about a week.
In order to ensure that they are not injured when catching these ferocious prey, hundreds of millions of years of evolution have allowed great white sharks to establish a set of self-protection mechanisms.
The first is to protect your most vulnerable place – your eyes.
When the great white shark is killing, the eyeball will automatically roll back to the back skull, and it will not return to its original shape until the brain signals that the hunt is complete!"
"Hahaha, roll your eyes?"
"Yes, yes, yes, I thought of it too!"
The audience collectively brushed up the eye-rolling emojis, which was very cute.
Liu Wei looked at it and smiled.
The camera moves from the eyes to the ears on both sides, "Brothers, when everyone swims, there is usually a buzzing sound on both sides of the ears.
Your body swims to create currents, and the sound of water flows into your ears, and many times, we can't hear others clearly in the water.
But the great white shark is different, its hearing is so good that it makes people feel terrifying.
The position of the ears ensures that it cannot hear the sound of the water, and at the same time, it can hear in the water two hundred times better than human hearing on land, and can hear faint sounds from a distance of 1.6 kilometers. ”
"Nima, is it downwind?"
"It's a real hammer, great white shark downwind ear clairvoyance!"
"That's a bit of an exaggeration!
"Eight hundred degrees of myopia dare not speak!"
The audience is discussing.
Professor Nick picked up the scalpel in his right hand and looked at Liu Wei and smiled slightly.
Liu Wei immediately pushed the camera over.
The assistant had already cut off the fins of the great white shark with a cutter in advance, and Professor Nick cut the fin's tail with a scalpel, and his assistant took the scalpel to cut forward.
Professor Nick pinched the skin of the great white shark and shook his head.
Liu Wei squatted down and stretched out his fingers to compare, which was as thick as an index finger.
"Brothers, this is the second important protection measure of the great white shark's body protection mechanism, piling up super thick fish skin, it is difficult for ordinary sea creatures to bite or pierce its body even if they resist!"
"Hahaha, is this the legendary skin thicker than the city wall!"
"The shark skin is very strong!"
"The thief is expensive, I bought a shark skin bag and was scolded to death by my husband!"
"Leave! Your husband never loves you!"
The sliced skin and muscles spread out to the sides of the body, revealing a flesh-red monolithic lump of flesh.
Liu Wei introduced: "Brothers, this is the liver of a shark, and all the organs in the body are wrapped in it.
As you can see, its liver is very large, about 30% of its body, and the bigger the great white shark, the bigger the liver.
The liver of the great white shark plays a vital role in its movement in the seawater.
We often hear the saying that the body of the great white shark is denser than the sea, but it gives the intuitive feeling that its body is too large to accept.
The key factor in this idea is its liver, which is able to create a special mixture of oils and fats, which is six times lighter than seawater, allowing the huge body of the great white shark to float in the seawater!"
"Give me one, I don't have to worry about my mother and daughter-in-law falling into the water at the same time, who will save first!"
"Brother upstairs, you brain circuit six!"
"Admiration, admiration, it seems that similar problems are often encountered in life, hahaha!"
Professor Nick slices open the liver of the great white shark with a scalpel.
"Liu, what I want to know most now is, what has this great white shark eaten recently?
Liu Wei nodded.
If human organs can be found in the stomach of the great white shark, it will prove that it has been feeding on humans recently.
Nick sliced open the stomach of the great white shark, and everyone frowned.
This tastes!
Tinnyima smells bad.
"Wow~, I threw up!"
"It's disgusting!"
"It looks like a meal!"
"Hahaha, Ah Wei, the camera is focused, I like to watch this kind of dinner scene the most!"
At this time, the camera in the live broadcast room captured a pile of sticky white thickness, which has been digested by the great white shark.
Nick searched the inside of the cut stomach with a scalpel, touched two hard bones, and clamped them up with a pair of tweezers.
He looked at Liu Wei, the two of them understood, Liu Wei nodded, "Brothers, judging from the shape and size, it is the rib cage of the human chest!"
"Wow~, no, I really threw up!"
"I can't stand it anymore, it's uncomfortable!"
"Ah Wei, why are you telling it?
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