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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Whales are essentially just massive blubbery armoured tanks. You could bite it, but you’d have an incredibly hard time causing any serious damage to the whale, where as one slap from a fin or tail would hurt you WAY more. That’s why.

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