Mako Shark

The Mako shark is the quintessential shark. It is probably the most graceful of all sharks; the most beautifully proportioned, the fastest, the most strikingly colored, the most spectacular game fish, and one of the meanest-looking animals on earth. The Mako has a homocercal (equallobed) tail and a horizontally flattened keel at the tail’s base. They all are gracefully streamlined, with a conical snout, dark eyes, small second dorsal fins, and the aforementioned tail shape. The dark eyes give them a look of intense intelligence that they may not possess, as well as the bold look of another group of superbly designed predators, the falcons.