Food blogger who ate 'great white shark' on video now being investigated by police

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great white shark is being investigated by police after the clip sparked a social media uproar.The young woman, who calls herself Tizi, is a major personality on Chinese streaming channel Douyin, where she has close to eight million followers.

She’s known for her videos where she eats rare, unusual and sometimes endangered animals. READ MORE: Great white shark suffers horrific death after getting trapped in bars of diver's cageIn her latest video, Tizi covers the roasted tail of the young "shark" in pepper before picking it up in her hands and tucking into it.“It may look vicious, but it's meat is truly super tender,” she says.According to a caption on the video, the great white shark was “bred in captivity,” but many commenters disputed that it was possible to keep a great white in a tank.A female great white shark survived for around 44 days in a million-gallon tank at Monterey Bay Aquarium in California in September 2004, but ate very little.

Following its release, it died a week later.The previous record was set in August 1981 when a great white shark lasted 16 days at SeaWorld in San Francisco before being released back into the ocean after refusing to eat.Viewers said the clip was “disgusting,” pointing out that many countries have banned great white shark fishing, because of the predator’s declining numbers.A police investigation is now underway, and the clip has been deleted from Tizi’s channel.She maintains that she obtained the fish "legally" and said that she had sought legal representation.She told local Sichuan news site Red Star News that people who criticised her video were "talking nonsense”.One Weibo user said: “I’ve seen her videos before.