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and therefore not interesting.

What's wrong? Why do you contuine reading? Haven't you read that this is not Megalodon, the only Shark despite the Great White which is important or interesting? Even if it is extinct for several million ye... oh what? You heard that chances are high, that Megalodon is still alive? ... Discovery Channel?!

Ok.

People who are actually interested in Sharks can contuine reading. All others: LEAVE! LEAVE AND GO TO YOUR MERMAIDS, MEGALODONS AND GIANT SPINOZILLAS!

This is the Common Thresher (Alopias vulpinus), the largest member of its Genus with lengths up to 6 m (20 ft). About half of its length consists of the elongated upper lobe of its caudal fin.
It can be found both close to the shore and and in the open ocean, from the surface to a depth of 550 m (1,800 ft).
It uses its long tail in a whip-like fashion to deliver incapacitating blows to its prey.
This animal is highly valued by commercial fishers for its meat, fins, hide, and liver oil; large numbers are taken by longline and gillnet fisheries throughout its range. It is also esteemed by recreational anglers for the exceptional fight it offers on hook-and-line.
The common thresher has a low rate of reproduction and cannot withstand heavy fishing pressure for long, which is exemplified by the rapid collapse of the thresher shark fishery off California in the 1980s. With commercial exploitation increasing in many parts of the world, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed this species as Vulnerable. Read more on the Wikipedia Article...

You see, while being no threat to humans it suffers heavily from them.
If once highly renowned documentary channels just only crave for sensationalism of the most unscientific kind, how should the Everyman, who isn't as specialized in Nature Preservation like others, be informed about the hazard animals, which are rather unknown in the public, are exposed to?
Discovery Channel'S Shark Week is a disgrace for those animals.

Description
and therefore not interesting.

What's wrong? Why do you contuine reading? Haven't you read that this is not Megalodon, the only Shark despite the Great White which is important or interesting? Even if it is extinct for several million ye... oh what? You heard that chances are high, that Megalodon is still alive? ... Discovery Channel?!

Ok.

People who are actually interested in Sharks can contuine reading. All others: LEAVE! LEAVE AND GO TO YOUR MERMAIDS, MEGALODONS AND GIANT SPINOZILLAS!

This is the Common Thresher (Alopias vulpinus), the largest member of its Genus with lengths up to 6 m (20 ft). About half of its length consists of the elongated upper lobe of its caudal fin.
It can be found both close to the shore and and in the open ocean, from the surface to a depth of 550 m (1,800 ft).
It uses its long tail in a whip-like fashion to deliver incapacitating blows to its prey.
This animal is highly valued by commercial fishers for its meat, fins, hide, and liver oil; large numbers are taken by longline and gillnet fisheries throughout its range. It is also esteemed by recreational anglers for the exceptional fight it offers on hook-and-line.
The common thresher has a low rate of reproduction and cannot withstand heavy fishing pressure for long, which is exemplified by the rapid collapse of the thresher shark fishery off California in the 1980s. With commercial exploitation increasing in many parts of the world, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed this species as Vulnerable. Read more on the Wikipedia Article...

You see, while being no threat to humans it suffers heavily from them.
If once highly renowned documentary channels just only crave for sensationalism of the most unscientific kind, how should the Everyman, who isn't as specialized in Nature Preservation like others, be informed about the hazard animals, which are rather unknown in the public, are exposed to?
Discovery Channel'S Shark Week is a disgrace for those animals.