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Hammer-head sharks are smooth, fast, and **[|agile]** creatures. They have an amazing sense of smell; they also have eyes on the sides of their heads so they can see all around them.



**__FOOD__** **__Hammer-head sharks eat:__** They eat catfishes, toadfishes, jacks, herring, groupers and boxfish’s. They also eat Squid, crustaceans, shrimps, crabs and mantis shrimps. They attack fish by surprising them, or attacking them at an extremely fast speed. Hammer-head sharks have a wide range of fish because they have to eat a lot of food to live (They eat 10x a day!). People think that sharks attack lots and lots of people, but the [|statistics] are quite low. About 10-15 people get attacked by sharks a year. Did you know that Hammerhead sharks can weigh up to 1,000 pounds? Sharks are amazing animals because of their speed, senses and do not deserve to be killed like this. They get killed by lots of ways but this article is only going to tell you 2 ways. They get killed on purpose or people are travelling and hit hammer-head sharks by accident.

__**Senses**__ = = Talking about senses, did you know that hammerhead sharks have amazing senses? They can smell blood up to a mile away! Sharks can also feel the electrical movement of a muscle. (That is how they catch their prey. Using their keen sense of smell) Hammerhead sharks smell very well. But a sense that is less is its ‘seeing’. When hammerhead sharks attack their prey, they close their eyes to protect them.



**__SHAPE__** = = Another reason why hammerhead sharks are so amazing is because of their shape. Do you know why they have a shape like they do? They have it for a lot of reasons, but this text is going to tell you only two. The first reason is so they can defend themselves when lots of dolphins or other predators attack them. The second reason is so they can attack other predators with maximum damage. Hammer-head sharks have to hit predators at full damage so they don’t have to keep attacking their prey, which means that they don’t have to lose a lot of energy.

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CONCLUSION = = So now you know some cool facts about hammerhead sharks. You know you have to protect them; you know why they are amazing animals. In lots of places hammer-head sharks cannot be seen because people are killing them, and that’s why these wonderful animals are getting [|extinct].

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