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Tiger shark
Sand Tiger shark
Common Name: Sand Tiger shark
Scientific Name: carcharios taurus
Introduction
As
you probably know already, a Sand Tiger shark
is at least 12 feet long. It takes its name from its color,
sand: for its deepness of murky sand, and tiger: for the long
black stripes resembling a tiger.
The
Sand Tiger is found in the western Atlantic
Ocean, Central America, West South America, eastern Atlantic,
South African coast, and western Pacific Ocean. The Sand Tiger
prefers to stay in warm water at a depth of about 630 feet
or 210 yards.
This
shark dines or preys on herrings, blue fish,
butter-fish, snappers, pargies, bonitos,
eels, jacks, small sharks, squid crabs, lobster, and other
invertebrates.
Some
people consider sharks aggressive and dangerous, but the Sand
Tiger is considered non-aggressive towards humans. If anything,
humans are more dangerous to the Sand Tiger than it is to
humans. The Sand Tiger is caught for aquariums,
white-meat, liver-oil, and for its fins.
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