Assertion: basking shark | /r/CapableOf | subsist on tiny pelagic animals
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text: Next to its vast bulk and its curiously sluggish habit, the most interesting peculiarity of the basking shark is its diet, for it subsists wholly on tiny pelagic animals, which it sifts out of the water by means of its greatly developed gill rakers, exactly as plankton-feeders among fishes such as menhaden do, and whalebone whales with their baleen sieves.