When I would be a shark and came across a whale, no matter its size, I would bite off its fins and start eating. Same with a big ray. How do those animals survive so long anyway?
In: Biology
Sharks don’t do all that much thinking. They are mostly programmed by evolution to eat certain types of things. Certain things *look and act* like food to a shark.
A huge ass whale that can wreck a shark doesn’t look or act like food. That’s it. The shark doesn’t think long and hard about the cost versus rewards analysis. He doesn’t contemplate tactics like trying to sneak up and grab a fin at a time. He doesn’t think about grabbing his shark buds and ambushing a whale as a squad. He just moves on and eats something else that does ping his food radar.
Now a dead whale doesn’t look like food but he sure does act like it… In the event that an animal only looks **or** acts like food… a shark may experiment with a small bite and retreat to safety to see what’s up.
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