Among the masters of the sea, lies a sluggish monster. Cetorhinus maximus is just that, although more generally known as the Basking shark. This interesting animal has some unusual characteristics which include its physical, behavioral, reproductive, and feeding attributes. Other details about the Basking shark, consist of its habitat, distribution among the waters, ecological relationships, and research being done on this gentle shark. Basking sharks have been known to range from between twenty to fifty feet long, but are more commonly closer to thirty feet (Allen, 1996, 158). The smallest recorded Basking shark was sixty-five inches long, which is the estimated size of one at birth. There have been no significant differences found to exist in the *age*-length relationships of C. maximus populations World-Wide. Although all Basking s....

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