Scientific name: Carcharhinus leucas
Spanish name: Tiburón Toro
Description:
this large and robust gray shark has the amazing capability to tolerate
highly salty sea water and fresh water, that's why it's easily founded
in rivers and estuaries, and it's also known as the Lake Nicaragua
shark and the Zambezi shark.
Size: the reach 3.5 meters in length
Distribution:
its distributed along the continental coasts, in all tropical and
subtropical seas. It has been reported 2,800 km up the Mississippi
River and 4000km up the Amazon in Peru. Its because of that the Bull
shark is the one that has reported more attacks to people, due to the
fact
Feeding: it
will eat almost anything it can capture, including other sharks, rays,
fishes, turtles, birds, dolphins, mollusks, crustaceans, and things
that fall overboard, such as cattle, dogs and rats.
Reproduction:
it is viviparous, and prefer estuaries as pupping grounds for litters
of 1 to 13 pups, which are born after a year gestation period.
Particularities:
the bull shark has a unique appearance. It has a very blunt, rounded
snout, is one of the most blunted sharks, making easy its recognition.
Besides, it eyes are small, its dorsal fin is very pointed and the tips
of its fins are dusky.
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