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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Their is a species of shark that does just that. It’s called the cookie cutter shark because it takes little disc or puck shaped bites out of the hide of the whale with its specially-designed jaws. Of course, it is a very small species of shark and has to swim away quickly to avoid the whale’s wrath, so it is less like a scary predatory shark and more like a pest, kind of like a mosquito or a horse fly.

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