How do big and slow animals survive in open water when it seemed easy for a shark to just take a bite?

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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?

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Every strategy to survive has a counter. Whales are big and slow but strong and can dive deep. Orcas prevent smaller whales from surfacing to breath and kill them that way. Smaller sharks like the cookie cutter shark just take small bite size round plugs out.

And things like white sharks are known to hunt whales, particularly weaker ones like injured or sick whales

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