Assertion: basking shark | /r/CapableOf | feed on plankton
Facets:
value: like the whale shark
type: OTHER
value: near the surface
type: LOCATION
value: despite its size
type: OTHER
value: from the water
type: LOCATION
value: mainly
type: DEGREE
value: like the whale
type: OTHER
value: during the summer
type: TEMPORAL
value: with its wide, gaping mouth
type: MANNER
value: in plenty
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Despite its size, the basking shark feeds on plankton.
text: Eating only plankton, basking sharks have a huge mouth and gill rakers to funnel and filter plankton through.
text: Swimming with their mouths wide open and often near the surface, they are filter feeders, consuming tiny food such as plankton.
text: Like the whale shark and the megamouth shark, the basking shark mainly feeds on plankton, so it is not a common predator.
text: The basking shark feeds on plankton, using a special technique to feed known as “passive feeding.
text: It feeds mostly on plankton, and it obtains its food by filtering water with its long gill slits.
text: During the summer, they feed near on plankton near the surface in more coastal waters.
text: Basking sharks are so named because they appear to bask as they feed on plankton on the water’s surface.
text: The basking shark feeds on plankton only, and this explains the very small size of its teeth, which are simply microscopic compared to the teeth of other sharks.
text: Despite their size, basking sharks actually feed on plankton which they filter out of the water, swimming slowly back and forth with their enormous mouths wide open.
text: In summer months, when we are most likely to see them, basking sharks move slowly at the sea surface, feeding on plankton with their characteristic wide-gaped open mouths.
text: The basking shark feeds on plankton, small fish.
text: Basking sharks feed on planktons in plenty.
text: The Basking shark is a filter feeder eating plankton from the water with its wide, gaping mouth.
text: They and the larger whale shark, along with the megamouth shark, are the three shark species that eat plankton.
text: Just like the whale and megamouth shark, the basking shark mainly eats planktons.