Female Shark Eats Male Shark
Seoul Aquarium Turf War
Female Shark Wins Seoul Aquarium Turf War
Eats Male Shark
By Polly Mosendz 1/29/16
A sand tiger shark is seen eating a
banded hound shark at COEX Aquarium on January 29 in Seoul, South
Korea.
According to the statement by aquarium representatives, sharks
sometimes bite other sharks out of astonishment after they bump.
In what was likely a turf war at a Seoul aquarium, a female sand tiger shark has eaten a male banded hound shark.
It took the 8-year-old female 21 hours to eat the 5-year-old male inside a tank at the COEX Aquarium.
According to video of the consumption, the female shark started with
the male's head and slowly went about consuming the rest of his body.
Horrifying Moment
🦈A Shark Eats Another Shark🦈
At South Korean Aquarium
This act of shark cannibalism likely was the result of the sharks bumping into one another. “Sharks have their own territories,” an aquarium official told Reuters. “Sometimes, when they bump into each other, they bite out of astonishment.”
Despite her best efforts to make a meal of the male shark, the female shark is expected to at some point regurgitate the remains of her former roommate.
Well, you win some, you lose some, you eat some, you throw some up.
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🦈Female Shark Eats Male Shark
At Aquarium In Seoul🦈
Japanese Aquarium Staff Horrified
By Shark That Went Cannibalistic
The Aqua World aquarium in the Ibaraki prefecture in Oarai, Japan, features attractions like sea lions, jellyfish, dolphins and sharks .... which eat other sharks.
Surprised?
So was one of the Aqua World caretakers who was checking on the aquarium's residents. At around 11 a.m., his rounds took him to the multi-tank Sea of Sharks exhibit, reports Jin115. The tank reserved for the largest creatures is home to a 1.6-meter whitetip reef shark, as well as a 2.8-meter sand tiger shark.
That was when the caretaker saw the larger shark trying to turn the smaller shark into breakfast. But while the sand tiger shark has the sharp teeth you'd expect from an apex predator, it still wasn't able to bite entirely through the hard skin of the whitetip.
So the sand tiger switched to Plan B and tried to swallow the smaller shark whole.
After about 40 minutes of struggling to choke the whitetip down, the sand tiger shark eventually gave up and ingloriously spat the deceased creature back out.
The aquarium staff promptly removed the smaller one, worried that if they didn't do so quickly, the hungry survivor might be tempted to try again.
Sadly, the whitetip later died from the injuries it had sustained.
"In light of this event, we will be further increasing the effort we make when judging which sharks to place in the same tanks, taking into account their relative size and possible hostilities," a spokesperson for the aquarium said.
In the meantime, Aqua World hopes visitors will continue to support the facility and its Sea of Sharks exhibit.
🦈This isn't cannibalism. They were different species.
🦈jezza: large shark is a gray nurse shark not tiger. i have dived with them many times in Australia namely Seal rocks and Fish cave in South west rocks. these sharks are completely harmless
🦈PhilSwifter !: "The deceased creature later died of its injuries." ?!?!?!
🦈Pradeep Subasinghe: Well Well... what do you expect? these poor sharks stuck in that aquarium all day.. you'll go crazy too.. There, Horrified.. huh.!
🦈Squid: "Spat the deceased creature back out"
"The whitetip later died from the injuries"
🦈Kevin McGovern: The shark spat out the deceased fish which later died. lol
🦈NItheBI: Ummmm Bruce? What happened to fish are friends not food
Surprised?
So was one of the Aqua World caretakers who was checking on the aquarium's residents. At around 11 a.m., his rounds took him to the multi-tank Sea of Sharks exhibit, reports Jin115. The tank reserved for the largest creatures is home to a 1.6-meter whitetip reef shark, as well as a 2.8-meter sand tiger shark.
That was when the caretaker saw the larger shark trying to turn the smaller shark into breakfast. But while the sand tiger shark has the sharp teeth you'd expect from an apex predator, it still wasn't able to bite entirely through the hard skin of the whitetip.
So the sand tiger switched to Plan B and tried to swallow the smaller shark whole.
After about 40 minutes of struggling to choke the whitetip down, the sand tiger shark eventually gave up and ingloriously spat the deceased creature back out.
The aquarium staff promptly removed the smaller one, worried that if they didn't do so quickly, the hungry survivor might be tempted to try again.
Sadly, the whitetip later died from the injuries it had sustained.
"In light of this event, we will be further increasing the effort we make when judging which sharks to place in the same tanks, taking into account their relative size and possible hostilities," a spokesperson for the aquarium said.
In the meantime, Aqua World hopes visitors will continue to support the facility and its Sea of Sharks exhibit.
🦈This isn't cannibalism. They were different species.
🦈jezza: large shark is a gray nurse shark not tiger. i have dived with them many times in Australia namely Seal rocks and Fish cave in South west rocks. these sharks are completely harmless
🦈PhilSwifter !: "The deceased creature later died of its injuries." ?!?!?!
🦈Pradeep Subasinghe: Well Well... what do you expect? these poor sharks stuck in that aquarium all day.. you'll go crazy too.. There, Horrified.. huh.!
🦈Squid: "Spat the deceased creature back out"
"The whitetip later died from the injuries"
🦈Kevin McGovern: The shark spat out the deceased fish which later died. lol
🦈NItheBI: Ummmm Bruce? What happened to fish are friends not food
Check out the Chinese version at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQFwT...
Check out another related story on shark: Horrifying moment a shark eats another shark at South Korean aquarium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6ku2...
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