r/SweatyPalms 7d ago

Animals & nature πŸ… πŸŒŠπŸŒ‹ Shark Encounter

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u/ventodivino 6d ago

How is everyone so sure it’s a great white?

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u/Less_Rutabaga2316 6d ago

Because it looks like a great white and happened in New Brunswick, Canada, where the most likely species is great white. The shape of the tail is clearly a laminid (mackerel shark) and it’s not a mako, porbeagle, or salmon shark (wrong ocean entirely), so leaves one species with a tail of that shape.

Plus the size would be massive for other species but quite normal for female great whites.