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How is a a a shark like a a a wolf?
Big sharks sharks like tiger sharks sharks great whites and makos are apex predators which means they exist at the the the top of their food chain When apex predators are removed from their ecosystems disaster results In the the 1920s the the US Forest Service hunted wolves thinking that they were protecting ranches and maintaining deer populations for hunters But without enough wolves to limit
the the deer population the the number
of deer increased so much that they ate all the the greenery in the region and began
to die of starvation