Sandbar+Sharks

media type="file" key="SSPX0699.3g2" width="300" height="300" media type="file" key="SSPX0698.3g2" width="300" height="300"media type="file" key="SSPX0697.3g2" width="300" height="300" ​media type="file" key="SSPX0696.3g2" width="300" height="300" Sandbar Shark Description of animal Sandbar Sharks have a lot of names like Thick Shark, Brown Shark, and Ground Shark. They have a wide flat head, husky round gray or brown body, white under the stomach. They can grow up to 6.5 feet to 8 feet long. It can weight up to 100 pounds to 200 pounds. They eat smaller sharks, mullet, flounder, skates, octopus, squid, crabs, and flatfish. They live in tropical waters, sandy bottoms, large bays and at the mouth of the rivers. There teeth are saw like. In the northern hemisphere, mating occurs in the spring or early summer through May to June. The Sandbar Shark is found in the near the shore and off shore waters, in deep waters, and insular shelves. In the water it can be 23 to 27 Celsius. Females become mature 1.45 - 1.80 meters and male in 1.30 - 1.80 meters. Large schools of Juvenile Sandbar Sharks visit the Chesepek bay in the summer and fall. Were the Sandbar Shark is located The Sandbar Shark is in the Wild Reef, and it is at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois. The pray is fish, rays,and crabs. The predator are the Tiger Shark, The Great White Shark, and the Bull Shark. Commercial fishers catch the Sandbar Shark for their leatherhides, meat and their vitamin-rich livers. Asian family's add their fins to their soups. Small fish, lead them to other sharks, and the other shark ends up eating them both.

Sandbar Shark Habitat The Sandbar Shark habitat is the subtropical waters ranging from 23 to 27 Celsius. They live in sandy bottoms. They also live in shallow waters. They can be found in harbors, estuaries, at the mouth of a bay, and at the mouth of the river too.

Five facts about the Sandbar shark are: media type="custom" key="5508149" width="111" height="110"
 * 1) it can reach up to 7 1/2
 * 2) it prefers to eat smaller species because it will appose little threat
 * 3) its classified as a little threat to people
 * 4) it spend most of its time near the sea bottom were he/she continuously looking for prey
 * 5) females give birth once a year