Xiang Yang also didn't want to provoke the group of tiger sharks under the water. After all, these guys had low IQs and were extremely ferocious. There was no point in reasoning with them.
Xiang Yang also knew that tiger sharks had a big appetite and were omnivorous animals.
Tiger sharks have low IQs and will eat almost anything they see when they are hungry, including highly poisonous creatures such as sea snakes, jellyfish, and stonefish.
Moreover, when they are even hungrier, tiger sharks will even stubbornly eat plastic bottles, glass wine bottles, tin cans, car license plates, and rubber tires.
Xiang Yang once watched a documentary in which a group of sailors threw a pile of garbage and broken wooden boards from the deck into the sea. There happened to be a group of hungry tiger sharks in that sea area.
All the garbage, including the wooden boards, were torn into pieces by the tiger sharks and swallowed into their stomachs, even the steel nails were eaten.
Tiger sharks will generally chase any object that moves in the ocean, and once they catch up, they will swallow it up.
And tiger sharks are different from turtles.
Sometimes, turtles ingest plastic bags and die because they cannot digest them.
Tiger sharks don't.
The tiger shark's digestive ability is abnormal. It can quickly digest crustaceans such as turtles, and can also slowly digest plastic bottles and wooden boards. Humans have seen tiger sharks swallowing glass bottles many times, but biologists and scientists have never found glass bottles in the stomach of a tiger shark, so scientists even suspect that tiger sharks can digest glass.
"Brother Yang, which one do you think is stronger if the tiger shark and the killer whale fight?" Fang Youqun on the side suddenly asked.
Xiang Yang pondered for a moment.
In fact, killer whales and tiger sharks are very similar creatures. Killer whales are like upgraded versions of tiger sharks that have been fully strengthened.
"If tiger sharks and killer whales meet in the ocean, it will definitely be a one-sided massacre of tiger sharks by killer whales. But tiger sharks should not be underestimated. Many killer whales have died in the mouths of tiger sharks." Xiang Yang replied.
No matter what prey or predator it faces, tiger sharks will fight to the death, even if they encounter killer whales.
The tiger shark's ferocity and its ability to accept all comers are inseparable from the two rows of sharp teeth in its bloody mouth.
The tiger shark's sharp teeth are truly indestructible, and their sharp appearance is shocking just by looking at them.
Although killer whales completely outnumber tiger sharks in terms of size, weight, strength, and intelligence, killer whales' defense is not enough to ignore tiger sharks' attacks.
"Did you see the sharp teeth in the tiger shark's mouth?" Xiang Yang asked.
Fang Youqun nodded. He was not blind. The tiger shark was floating on the water at the edge of the ice floe, so of course he saw it.
Xiang Yang explained: "The tiger shark's front teeth are thin and sharp, which can easily tear the killer whale's skin. The teeth on both sides are flat and can bite off and grind very hard objects. Even a killer whale will bleed immediately if it is bitten by a tiger shark. You know, in the wild, there is no medical treatment, and animals are in danger of death if they are injured."
Fang Youqun immediately gasped when he heard this, "Hiss, so scary."
"Where are we now?"
Xiang Yang smiled and shook his head. In fact, the most terrifying thing about the tiger shark's sharp teeth is not its bite force.
"Once a tiger shark's teeth are aged or damaged, they will fall off immediately. A new tooth will immediately grow at the location where the old tooth fell off, automatically filling the position of the previously fallen tooth. This is the most terrifying thing about tiger shark teeth." Xiang Yang sighed.
Fang Youqun was stunned when he heard this. "Doesn't that mean that tiger sharks' teeth can always remain sharp and strong, and that they can still tear apart all kinds of prey even when they are old?"
Xiang Yang nodded to indicate that it was correct.
It is precisely because tiger sharks have such good teeth that they dare to bite basically anything they see.
However, all things are interdependent and mutually exclusive. Even a ferocious ocean demon like the tiger shark has natural enemies in the seabed.
Moreover, the tiger shark's natural enemy is a very weak creature.
Among flounders, there is a kind of flounder with leopard-like spots all over its body called leopard flounder.
There are more than two hundred venom glands distributed on the dorsal fin and caudal fin of this leopard flatfish. When encountering an enemy, each of the more than two hundred venom glands can secrete a large amount of venom, and the toxicity is extremely strong. Even if a tiger shark encounters that kind of venom, it will be quickly paralyzed, in extreme pain, and directly lose the ability to move and fall to the bottom of the sea.
Moreover, because tiger sharks are extremely brutal and have low IQs, they simply do not understand what it means to avoid natural enemies.
Every year, countless tiger sharks die at the hands of leopard flounder.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that every tiger shark is a natural fighter and has rich combat experience from the moment they are born.
A tiger shark's first fight is before it is born.
As an oviparous animal, a female tiger shark can give birth to about five hundred tiger sharks at a time.
When the baby tiger sharks are still in the womb, they have already started fighting. They will kill each other in the womb until only the strongest baby tiger shark is left, and then they will be born.
The body length of a newborn tiger shark is about 40 centimeters. Because of the fighting experience in the womb, the tiger shark is a master of fighting from birth and has rich combat experience.
A biologist once dissected a pregnant tiger shark in the laboratory. During the dissection, he was bitten hard by an unborn tiger shark.
"It can be said that the cause of death of most tiger sharks in the ocean is because they accidentally eat some highly poisonous marine creatures. The only creatures in the entire ocean that can truly kill tiger sharks with their teeth and strength are almost killer whales." Xiang Yang finally concluded.
Fang Youqun nodded and said, "I didn't expect these ugly guys to be so powerful. I wonder which one is more powerful, the tiger shark or the great white shark."
Xiang Yang burst into laughter when he heard this. "Compared to the naturally bloodthirsty great white shark, the tiger shark is actually a little bit inferior."
After all, the great white shark is also known as the killer shark.
Moreover, compared with tiger sharks, great white sharks are more harmful to humans.
Because great white sharks sometimes enter inland waters.
Gao Chuang, who was standing by, agreed, "Your captain is right. Great white sharks are large, aggressive sharks. They are generally larger than tiger sharks, and their teeth have serrated edges. They can almost be called one of the most powerful predators in the ocean."
Several captains and chief engineers nearby nodded in agreement.
No matter how ferocious tiger sharks are, their size is there after all, and there are still many creatures in the ocean that they cannot defeat.
The great white shark is different. The average great white shark can grow to eight meters in length and weigh three tons. The largest great white shark can even grow to twelve meters.