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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Predators who are good enough to live for generations are experts on risk management. An injured predator is generally a dead predator. Sharks have some sort of natural understand that going after a blue whale just isn’t worth it. Sharks have been hunting the seas for longer than trees have been growing on land. Their system works.

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