Talk:Thresher shark

SO tell me
WHERE DO THEY LIVE?


 * how long do thresher sharks live
 * Where do they migrate
 * How many young do they have
 * Where do they have sex?ouuuuu not

and bring valid sources. I am no expert but Threshers sharks are some of the less know about sharks in the world. like the 6 gill shark and 7 gill shark.--HalaTruth(ሐላቃህ) 14:45, 23 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Just because we don't know much about them doesn't make them one (aside from the fact there are three species covered here) of the less well known sharks . There are plenty of sharks that we know less about than we do about threshers and plenty we know more about. Putting in an opinion about the relative amount of information we have on the sharks without valid sources is no better than adding unsourced statistics. Yomangani talk 15:39, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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So about that tail...
Is it known for sure whether the tail is actually used as a tool in predation? Has this actually been observed? I saw no footnote regarding this point and always wondered if this was merely a supposition or old wives' tale. I'm not gonna remove it because I have no evidence it's false, but it would be good if somebody could find some support to link for this claim. Molon Labe (talk) 17:35, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Distribution challenge
"CHALLENGE-- A thresher shark was seen on the live video ... Macondo oil well blow out in the Gulf of Mexico. This is significantly deeper than the 500m previously thought to be their limit."

Could this be resolved either way? Bruinfan12 (talk) 11:49, 11 June 2011 (UTC) connor winterbottom is a god — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.108.115.47 (talk) 18:49, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Silly link
""thresher-like tail or "" the link from this thresher leads to scythe! If one knows nothing, why then write here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.183.96.216 (talk) 10:09, 11 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I'm rather mystified by this as well. The tails of these sharks definitely do look like a scythe blade... but you don't thresh grain with a scythe, the scythe is for HARVESTING. Threshing tools are what you use to whack the harvested material so the grain's separated from the inedible material; modern threshers are all big machines, but a pre-industrial thresher would be some kind of flail or stick.


 * Look here...
 * http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Thresher+shark
 * ...and you'll find an etymology saying the tail "resembles a threshing tool"... I suppose it might if you had a long flexible threshing tool. Look here...
 * http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thresher#Etymology
 * ...and the confusion continues, with "The shark's tail is thought to resemble the implement", and later on "A now-obsolete hand tool for threshing, also called a flail." But the tail does not look like a flail!


 * Here, though...
 * http://www.finedictionary.com/thresher%20shark.html
 * ...it refers to "a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed", and I suppose you COULD thresh grain with a whip-like implement.


 * It's all way too confused for me to be able to figure out what's right, but linking "thresher" to "scythe" is definitely wrong. Groyolo (talk) 23:53, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Useless link
""their exceptionally long, thresher-like tail "" This link leads to "thresher", but it is useless, because the authors there do not know what the meaning of thresher originally is.

About the name again
Videos like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANjYYXIl_C8 clearly show that the shark is "threshing" schools of fish with his tail to stun them.

The name refers to the tail's function and not its appearance.

So the "thresher-like tail" in the article linking to a similar looking scythe seems to be silly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vindolin (talk • contribs) 08:13, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

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Sword fish stabbing sharks
Yug (talk)  08:02, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/science/swordfish-stabbing-sharks.html : "In the latest example, an adult 15-foot thresher shark [...] washed up in Libya. Inside was a foot of swordfish sword that had broken off near its heart."