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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It’s not easy to get a bite off a body that’s basically floating in the water without hands to get a grip on it and make it not float away. The only way is to take a bite of an appendage like fins or flippers. Only those appendages are the ones that can move fast enough to cause serious bodily harm. So, to sum it up, it’s not worth it.

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