Assertion: basking shark | /r/CapableOf | shed its gill rakers
Facets:
value: in winter
type: TEMPORAL
value: during their movement
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The basking shark sheds and regrows its gill rakers in the winter, the only known example of an annual molt in fishes.
text: Basking sharks shed their gill rakers (which help them in feeding on planktons) gradually during their movement and get new ones.
text: During the colder months of the year, the basking shark apparently sheds its gill rakers, though how and why this occurs is not yet known.
text: The basking shark actually sheds and then regrows its gill rakers during the winter months.
text: In winter, the Basking Shark apparently sheds its gill rakers and disappears (it has been speculated that it may hibernate or sink to the bottom and shift to other food), re-growing its gill rakers in the spring.
text: It was once thought that basking sharks hibernated on the ocean bottom in the winter, but some research shows that they migrate to deeper waters offshore and also shed and re-grow their gill rakers, and a study published in 2009 showed that basking sharks traveled from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, all the way to South America in the winter.