Shark

Ecology
Feeding
Most sharks are carnivorous. Some species, including tiger sharks, eat almost anything. The vast majority seek particular prey, and rarely vary their diet. Whale, basking and megamouth sharks filter feed. These three independently evolved plankton feeding using different strategies. Whale sharks use suction to take in plankton and small fishes. Basking sharks are ram-feeders, swimming through plankton blooms with their mouth wide open. Megamouth sharks make suction feeding more efficient, using luminescent tissue inside the mouth to attract prey in the deep ocean. This type of feeding requires gill rakers, long slender filaments that form a very efficient sieve, analogous to the baleen plates of the great whales. The shark traps the plankton in these filaments and swallows from time to time in huge mouthfuls. Teeth in these species are comparatively small because they are not needed for feeding.