he great white is usually found near shore lines along most of the temperate coastlines around the world. These solitary animals have been observed along the coastlines of California to Alaska, the east coast of the U.S.A. and most of the Gulf coast, Hawaii, most of South America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Mediterranean Sea, West Africa to Scandinavia, Japan, And the eastern coastline of China and Southern Russia. The Great white shark gets in name from the long white belly, but the rest of the fish is a grayish color. This helps when stalking prey. It hunts below its prey enabling it to blend in with the water.Most sharks swallow their food whole of bite it into relatively large pieces. The great white has a U-shaped stomach that use very strong acids and enzymes to dissolve most of what is eaten. The stomach produces an easily absorbed soupy mush. Only this liquid mush enters the intestines because the pyloric valve (the valve between the stomach and the intestines) is small. Indigestible things, like very large bones and non-nutritive items, are vomited.Absorption of nutrients takes place in the intestines. Although the intestines are short, they have a large surface area due to infolding of the inner surface of the intestines. Some shark intestines ate arranged in folds, some are in spiral pattern, like a spiral staircase enclosed in a cylinder. After absorbing the nutrients from the food, the waste leaves the body through the anal fin (which is located on the underbelly of the shark.)Although the great white has nostrils, it does not use them to breathe. The shark has 5 gills on its side which it uses to breathe. The shark takes in water and filters out the oxygen then the water is released, out of the body. Unlike most bony fish, shark's eggs are fertilized inside the female's body. The male shark had "claspers" extensions of the pelvic fins that are used to transfer sperm to the female and fertilize he...
