@@beentheredonethat3624 Sadly for the Sharks they're not even Apex predators. Orcas know about the sharks one major weakness - they go into a coma like state when they're flipped upside down called tonic immobility. So Orcas just ram into them and eat their liver (which is extremely nutrient dense) leaving them for dead if they didn't die from the process in the first place. Nothing eats (adult) Orcas though, making them the true Apex predator of their ecosystem.
Be careful if you see one because there are also false cleanerfishes (or whatever it is i don't remember) the originals just feed themselves and help the fish but the false ones just rip a piece of flesh and dip
Makes me wonder.. 🤔 besides the remoras hitching a ride on the shark, do the shark and remoras develop some sort of bond in that one sharks remoras will only stay on that shark, and not jump onto a different shark?
@@CatwortRambullKerr cartilagenous fish don't have swim bladders. Swim bladders allow fish to keep neutrally buoyant (not sink or rise) so they can stay still. Breathing is kind of separate. Bony fish have swim bladders (even our ancestral lung fish relatives had them. IF I remember correctly, lungs were basically derived from swim bladder tissue. My favorite fact is that bony fish are more closely related to us than to cartilagenous fish like sharks and rays) Some sharks can power their gills (called singing sharks) while stationary. Bony fish have gills that can move water over them. (I ... don't exactly know how stationary rays breathe 🤔)
That's true for almost all fish (including most sharks) although not the entire truth. Either a fish needs to be moving or water must be moving over/through their gills or they'll suffocate. They cannot sit still and breath like us land creatures can. It's why fishermen when releasing fish sometimes move the fish through the water a bit before actually letting them go. Obviously there's exceptions as there's fish that spend most of the time hiding (eels and anglerfish for example) that have adaptions to allow them to breathe in a different way. Heck, there's even fish that take in oxygen from the air itself directly.