Is That a Shark It’s springtime You’re standing on the beach looking out at the ocean Then you see it A gray triangle sticks out of the water It’s a fin And it belongs to a huge fish Is it a great white shark No It’s even bigger Then you see the wide yawning mouth You can relax It’s a basking shark 4
5 A fin sticking out of the water could mean danger This time it’s a harmless basking shark
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Is this shark yawning No It’s getting food A basking shark gets food with its mouth wide open Water flows in as the shark swims It flows through the sharp gill rakers and out of the gills The water is full of food The gill rakers are like the teeth of a comb They filter the food out of the water 7 Tiny plants and animals get trapped in the shark’s mouth as it swims
