Ep. 76: Giant Shark!
MeatEater Conservation
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4.9 • 9.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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This week, Cal talks about a great white grandma shark, Maine, ancient sperm, and so much more.
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| 0:45.0 | From Meadiegers' world news headquarters in Boseman, Montana, this is Cal's We Can Review |
| 0:50.4 | with Ryan, Cal Calan. |
| 0:52.7 | Now, here's Cal. |
| 0:55.5 | Welcome to you live from Portland, Maine, the We're Going to Need a Bigger Boat Department. |
| 1:01.0 | Researchers from O-Search have found what they call the Queen of the Ocean, a great white |
| 1:04.9 | shark estimated to be 17 feet long, 3541 pounds, and around 50 years old. |
| 1:14.4 | Taked off the coast in Nova Scotia on October 2nd, it's the largest shark O-Search has |
| 1:18.8 | tagged in the Northwest Atlantic. |
| 1:21.3 | The shark research organization has a very popular and cool program where you can follow |
| 1:25.8 | along with the research by tracking the sharks on their website, oSearch.org. |
| 1:31.3 | They named this one Nakumi for the legendary wise old grandmother figure of the Mickmack |
| 1:37.5 | people who have long lived and thrived in this part of the world. |
| 1:41.3 | By any name, a shark like this one is a fearsome specimen. |
| 1:45.7 | The average great white gallows down about 11 tons of food per year, meaning over the course |
| 1:50.5 | of this old girl's life. |
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