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Rabu, 14 November 2012

Tiger Shark

 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Tiger Shark | The tiger shark is often found close to shore in the world, especially in tropical and subtropical waters. With the great white shark, Dungeness, the Greenland shark and shark gilled shark, tiger shark is one of the most important today. Make a tiger shark in the Caribbean, followed by migration of Cape Cod, although tiger sharks are a tropical species during the summer, the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cape Cod has been in the northern end of its range . Tiger sharks can be seen in the Gulf of Mexico, the beaches of North America and parts of South America. Other places where tiger sharks are seen as Africa, China, Hong Kong, India, Australia and New Zealand.


A recent study showed that the average tiger shark 350 meters (1100 feet) registered, so it is rare to see tiger sharks in shallow water. However, tiger sharks in Hawaii have been observed in depths as shallow as 10 feet and is often seen in coastal waters at depths of 20-40 feet often visit shallow reefs, harbors and waterways. The tiger shark is known as Kiribati and Tuvalu tababa. Tide planktonic animals, small soft-shell crabs, blue, sardines mule to win to regain trevally (rereba), then pull the draw to win the tiger shark (tababa). One of the largest sharks living today, the tiger shark commonly reaches a length of 3 to 4.2 m (9.8 to 13.8 feet) and weighs around 385-635 kg (850 to 1400 pounds). Sometimes a male tiger shark can be unusually large up to 4.5 m (15 ft). While on average, with a small weight and build as a result of simple, thin and less, can not compete with the largest white shark tiger shark in length. According to FishBase, the tiger shark can be up to 7.5 meters (25 feet) long and 807.4 kg (1780 lb).


The tiger shark is a predator and is reputed to eat anything. Large heavily calcified jaws and nearly terminal mouth, combined with strong teeth to take the tiger shark in this great loot. The high risk of predatory attacks, dolphins often avoid regions inhabited tiger sharks. The tiger shark also eats other sharks (such as sandbar sharks) and even eat their congeners. Tiger sharks may also attack injured or sick whales prey on them. The tiger shark also cleans dead whales. The ability to capture low frequency waves can stimulate pressure shark with an animal with confidence, even in murky water. During an attack, the shark often eats its prey whole. Females mate once every three years.


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typically mature in lengths of 2 to 3 meters (6.6 to 9.8 feet). It is unknown how long tiger sharks live, but they can live over 12 years. Although shark attacks are a relatively rare phenomenon, the tiger shark is responsible for a large percentage of fatal attacks and is considered one of the most dangerous sharks. The tiger shark lives in estuaries and other water-rich runoff. The average number of three fifty-seven shark attacks each year in Hawaii, and most attacks are not fatal. A large tiger shark was killed and hanged and then measure, depending on size and model of bite, it was assumed that the shark that attacked Hamilton. Between 1959 and 1976, 4,668 tiger sharks were culled in an effort to protect the tourism industry. Behavioural South Africa Shark Diver and shark Addison showed how divers can dive and interact with them outside of a shark cage in the 2007 Discovery Channel special.


The tiger shark is captured and killed for their fins, meat and liver. While shark fin has few nutrients, shark liver oil has a high concentration of vitamin A, which is used in the production of vitamin oils. Furthermore, the tiger shark is captured and killed for their fur clean and deep sea fishing. In 2010, Greenpeace International, the tiger shark has red list seafood that sells a list of common fish
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Sabtu, 03 November 2012

Hammerhead Shark

 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Hammerhead Shark | Although several species are hammer big enough, they are thinner and lighter than other large sharks, undoubtedly increase their speed and agility in the water. The shape of the head is designed to help the shark find food, handling and quarts near twisting without loss of stability greatly. From what we know of Winghead shark, it seems that the shape of the hammer head has to do with developing sensory function. Like all sharks, hammerheads have. Breeding takes place once a year for hammerhead sharks and usually occurs with the male bites the female shark violently until she agrees to mate with him. Hammerhead show reading with viviparous females give birth to live young. Like other sharks, fertilization internal transfer male sperm wife by one of the copulatory organs is called claspers. The developing embryos are initially supported by a yolk sac.


In 2007, Bonnet Head shark was capable of asexual reproduction by parthenogenesis automictic considered in the female ovum fuses with a polar body form a zygote without a male. Hammerhead sharks are known to eat a variety of products, including fish, squid, octopus, mussels and other species of hammerhead sharks. The hammerhead shark uses its head to identify scratches and eats the beam when the beam is weak and in shock. It is a type of hammerhead shark, which is more aggressive and wide: the big hammer. These sharks are more aggressive and eat squid, octopus, and other hammerhead sharks. Of the nine known species of hammerhead sharks, three people can be dangerous: the scalloped hammerhead sharks, large and soft.


Listed large hammers (IUCN), the World Conservation Union Red List of endangered species in 2008, while the hammer is listed as endangered small eyes. Shark fins are prized as a delicacy, and overfishing has many hammerhead sharks threatened with extinction. Fishermen. Views known in the native Hawaiian culture, sharks as gods of the sea, as Aumakua will protect human health and marine life also cleaner. Some of these sharks are as family members who have died, and was reborn as a shark. However, there are sharks, which are as a cannibal, also known as Niuhi. These sharks are great white sharks, tiger sharks and bull sharks. Hammerhead, also known as Kihikihi hand is.


The Hammerhead is considered the birth of the animals in some children. Hawaiian children are born with a sign Hammerhead animals thought to be warriors and to sail the oceans. It is very rare that hammerhead sharks pass through the waters of Maui, but many Maui residents believe that if hammerheads happen, it is a sign that the gods take care of families and the oceans are clean and balanced . 

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Kamis, 04 Oktober 2012

Nurse shark

 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Nurse shark | Common habitats are reefs, channels between mangrove islands and sand banks. It occurs in the Western Atlantic from Rhode Island, south of Brazil, in the Eastern Atlantic from Cameroon to Gabon (and possibly other beaches north and south) in the eastern Pacific from southern Baja California and Peru around Caribbean islands sharks are nocturnal, spending the day in large inactive groups of up to 40 people. At night, the sharks are largely solitary, spend most of their time through striped bottom sediments in search of food. Their diet consists mainly of crustaceans, molluscs, tunicates, sea snakes and other fish, especially blankets.


It is believed that enjoy sleeping fish that would otherwise be too fast to catch sharks, although their small mouths limit the size of prey, sharks have large throat cavities which are used as a sort of bellows valve. Nurse sharks are also known to graze algae and coral. Nurse sharks are able to breathe while standing by pumping water through the mouth and gills. Nurse sharks are ovoviviparous, ie the eggs develop and hatch within the female's body, where babies grow up to live birth occurs. Nurse sharks are born fully developed pups about 30 cm long in cirratum Ginglymostoma. The shark is not widely commercially exploited, but by their lethargic behavior, is an easy target for local fisheries.


Divers often caused shark, however, still holding a specimen by its tail. Nursing juvenile sharks are often sold in the aquarium trade saltwater. However, since sharks reach lengths of over 10 feet, which are too large to be kept in home aquariums.  

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Sabtu, 15 September 2012

Zebra Shark


 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Zebra Shark | The zebra shark occurs in the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific, South Africa to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf (including Madagascar and the Maldives), India and Southeast Asia (including Indonesia, the Philippines and Palau), north to Taiwan and Japan, east of New Caledonia and Tonga, and south to northern Australia. Adults and teenagers often large coral reefs, rubble and sand areas. Zebra sharks sometimes cross the sea to reach isolated seamounts. The displacements of up to 140 km (87 miles) were recorded for individual sharks. However, the genetic data indicate that there is little interaction between zebra shark populations, although their ranges are contiguous. The zebra shark has a cylindrical body with a broad head and snout short and blunt slightly flat.


There are 28-33 rows of teeth on the upper jaw and 22-32 rows of teeth on the lower jaw, each tooth has a large central cusp flanked by two smaller ones. The median dorsal ridge merges into the first dorsal placed midway along the body and twice the size of the second dorsal fin. The pectoral fins are large and broad pelvic and anal fins are much smaller, but larger than the second dorsal fin. The zebra shark reaches a length of 2.5 m (8.2 ft), with a database record 3.5 m (11.5 ft). The color pattern in young sharks is dark yellow, light brown above and below, with vertical stripes and yellow spots. Like the shark can reach 50-90 cm (20-35 inches) long, dark areas start to break, change the general pattern of stripes of light in the dark spots in dark light. The shark, a 1.9 m (6.2 ft) long mature female, was unusual in that albino animals rarely survive long in the wild due to their lack of camouflage


During the day, zebra sharks are slow and usually resting on the sea floor, sometimes using their pectoral fins to support the front of your body and face with his mouth open today to facilitate breathing. Zebra sharks are strong and agile swimmers, propelling themselves with pronounced eel (eel) undulations of the body and tail. The zebra shark feeds mainly on mollusks shell, but also crustaceans, small bony fishes, and possibly sea snakes body thin and flexible that sharks lets sneak into the holes and cracks reduce foraging, while its small mouth and oral cavity thick muscular force will create a powerful suction to draw prey This species can be eaten by larger fish and marine mammals. Parasites known zebra shark include four species of tapeworms in Pedibothrium gender.


Zebra sharks are usually solitary, although aggregations of 20-50 individuals were recorded. Off southeast Queensland, aggregations of several hundred zebra sharks form every summer in shallow water. This behavior resembles the pre-mating behavior among sharks, men and women, and in both cases, biting and holding the pectoral fin has been speculated to refer to a shark assert dominance over other docile and slow zebra sharks are not dangerous to humans and can be easily addressed underwater. Zebra sharks in many dive sites have become accustomed to human presence, taking food from the hands of divers and being touched. The zebra shark adapts well to captivity and shown by a number of public aquariums worldwide. The zebra shark is taken by commercial fishing in most of its range, with bottom trawls, gillnets and longlines.
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Bull Shark

 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Bull Shark | The bull shark is commonly found worldwide in coastal areas of warm oceans, rivers and lakes, rivers and water occasionally salt and fresh if they are deep enough. Bull shark populations are also found in several major rivers, with more than 500 bull sharks thought to live in the Brisbane River. A large bull shark was caught in the canals of Scarborough, two hours north of the Gold Coast. You can live in water with a high salt content as in St. Lucia Estuary in South Africa. The bull shark is generally abundant in the warm waters and coastal estuaries of the Mozambique Channel and south, including Kwa-Zulu Natal and Mozambique. After Hurricane Katrina, many bull sharks were sighted in Lake Pontchartrain. Bull sharks sometimes ascended the Mississippi River as far upstream as Alton, Illinois.


Some breeds (Rajidae), smooth dogfish (Triakidae) and gray reef sharks (Carcharhinus plumbeus) regularly enter estuaries. Elasmobranchs capacity "to enter fresh water is limited because their blood is normally at least as salty (in terms of osmotic strength) as seawater, through the accumulation of urea and trimethylamine oxide, but bull sharks live in fresh water showed a significantly reduced concentration of urea in the blood Nevertheless, the composition of the solute (ie, osmolarity) of a bull shark in fresh water is much more higher than that of the external environment. Initially, scientists thought the sharks in Lake Nicaragua belonged to an endemic species, the Lake Nicaragua shark (Carcharhinus Nicaraguensis). 


A bull shark feeding consists mainly of bony fish and sharks, including other bull sharks, but can also include turtles, birds, dolphins, terrestrial mammals, crustaceans, echinoderms and races. Bull sharks have been known to use the bump and bite technique to attack their prey. Bull sharks are usually solitary hunters, but sometimes hunt in pairs. Often cruise the shallow waters. Since bull sharks often dwell in shallow waters, they may be more dangerous to humans than other species of sharks, and the tiger shark, oceanic whitetip shark and the great white shark, are among the four species of sharks most likely to attack humans. One or more bull sharks may have been responsible for the Jersey Shore shark attacks of the 1916, which was the inspiration for Peter Benchley Jaws news. Speculation of bull sharks may be liable based on a number of attacks that occur in brackish water and freshwater, and there are some similarities between bites bulls and great white sharks.


The bull shark is responsible for attacks across the inputs of Sydney Harbour. In India, the bull shark swimming along the Ganges River and have attacked people. Most of these attacks were attributed to shark Ganges Glyphis gangeticus, a species endangered river shark which is probably the only other shark in India, able to survive in fresh water, although the shark gray nurse was also charged during the sixties and seventies. Bull sharks mate in late summer and early autumn, often in the brackish water of river mouths. After 12 months of pregnancy, a bull shark may give birth to 4-10 live young.
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Minggu, 26 Agustus 2012

Shark

 

The Biggest Animals Kingdom and in The World | Shark | Shark teeth are embedded in the rubber are not directly attached to the jaw, and continually replaced throughout life. Before the simultaneous replacement of a large number, which is observed in the cutter shark Tooth shape depends on the diet of sharks: They feed on mollusks and crustaceans, a dense and flattened teeth are used for crushing, which feed on fish have needle-like teeth for gripping, and those who are lower on larger prey such as mammals teeth to gripping and triangular upper teeth with serrated edges for cutting showed. The teeth of plankton-feeders such as the basking shark are small and non-functional Shark skeletons are very different from those of bony fish and terrestrial vertebrates. Sharks and other cartilaginous fish (skates and rays) have skeletons of cartilage and connective tissue. Rib cages because no sharks, they can easily under their own weight landJaws of sharks, rays are not as, are attached to the skull crushed. 


Generally sharks have only one layer of tesserae, but the jaws of large specimens, such as the bull shark, tiger shark and the great white shark, two to three layers or more, depending on body size. The jaws of a great white shark can be up to five layers. Most sharks have eight fins. Sharks only drift away from objects directly in front of them because they do not move their fins allow the tail-first directionUnlike bony fish, sharks have a complex dermal corset made of flexible collagenous fibers and arranged as a helical spring surrounding body network. Caudal fin shapes vary considerably between the types of sharks, as a result of evolution in separate environments. Sharks have a heterocercal caudal fin in which the dorsal portion is usually noticeably larger than the ventral. Since the shark dorsal spine is in the part, so that.


Other adaptations help sharks tail to catch prey more directly, such as the use of the thresher shark from its powerful, elongated upper lobe stun fish and squid. Some species, such as nurse sharks, have external barbels that greatly increase their ability to sense prey to. Visibility in the dark water The effectiveness of the tissue varies, with a stronger sharks night adjustments. Sharks have eyelids, but do not blink because the surrounding water cleans their eyes. To protect their eyes some species nictitating membranes. This membrane covers the eyes while hunting and when the shark attacked. The importance of eyes in shark hunting behavior is discussed. Presumably, the shark not to protect their eyes, they were unimportant. The shark vision can change between monocular and stereoscopic at any time. A micro-spectrophotometry study of 17 species of sharks found 10 only rods and no cones in their retinas were them good night vision and makes them color blind.


Sharks seen with the ampoules Lorenzini on the electromagnetic fields that all living things produce. This helps sharks (particularly the hammerhead shark) find prey. The shark has the greatest electrical sensitivity of an animal. Sharks find prey in the sand by detecting the electric fields they produce hidden. Ocean currents moving in the magnetic field of the earth and electric fields that sharks selected for orientation and possibly use navigationUnlike most bony fishes generate sharks K for the show, giving them developed a small number of well-developed young production as opposed to a large number of poor young . Fertility in sharks ranges from 2 to over 100 young per reproductive cycle. Sharks mature slowly relative to many other fish. For example, lemon sharks reach sexual maturity around the age of 13-15.


Shark migration patterns may be even more complex than in birds, with many sharks entire ocean basins. Sharks can be highly social, even in large schools. Cross-species social hierarchies exist. For example, white tip dominate silky sharks of comparable size during feeding. To close when some sharks perform a threat display. This usually consists of exaggerated swimming movements, and can vary in intensity depending on the threat level In general, sharks ("cruise") swim at an average speed of 8 kilometers per hour (5.0 mph) but when feeding or attacking, the average shark speeds can reach upwards of 19 kilometers per hour (12 mph) .

The shortfin mako shark, the fastest shark and one of the fastest fish, can burst at speeds up to 50 kilometers per hour (31 mph). The great white shark is also capable of speed bursts. These exceptions may be due to the warm-blooded or homeothermic, nature of these sharks physiology. Sharks are found in all seas. They generally do not live in freshwater, with a few exceptions such as the bull shark and the river shark which can swim both in seawater and freshwater. The deepest confirmed report of a shark is a Portuguese dogfish at 3,700 meters (12,100 ft).


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