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- noun Plural form of
whitetip .
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Examples
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Some of the most dangerous sharks in the world are swimming in the Florida Straights: the tigers, the lemons, the whitetips.
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The whitetips have declined by 99 percent in the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean, and hammerheads by 99 percent in the Mediterranean.
NYT > Home Page 2011
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But humans have been far more lethal against whitetips, hunting the shark above all for its fins, which are used to make shark fin soup.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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When the Nova Scotia steamship was sunk near South Africa during the Second World War, a large number of the 1,000 passengers were believed to have been killed by whitetips.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Over 800 sailors survived the initial attack, but over the course of four days in which they trod water clung to flotsam and died of thirst and exposure, at least two dozen, possibly many more, were picked off by whitetips.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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But until last week's attacks only two juvenile whitetips had been seen off the coast of
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Both whitetips and makos are pelagic sharks whose natural habitat is far out to sea - and it is here where they are most dangerous.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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