
Policymaking on the high seas
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Weeds: The Answer to the Basking Shark
The basking shark is a filter feeder and its mouth is wide open in like a big circular shape because it's just trying to get as much of that plankton through its gills as it can. i'm not a marine biologist so i don't quote me for accuracy of the biology of the shark but i love it because it's lifestyle is just swimming near the sea surface where the sun is shining mouth open wide. It does not just swims with its mouth open and it sometimes you can find them alone but a lot of times they aggregate and there'll be hundreds of them together. They call it a cosmopolitan migratory species oh cosmopolitan because you can find it in a
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