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New Long Beach tiger shark rather picky
(Um, did I order the steak?)
The new 5-foot-long tiger shark at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, has the erratic mealtime attitude of a tortured starlet.
In the wild, tiger sharks are scavengers who will devour smaller sharks, boat cushions and even discarded car parts. The one at the aquarium, however, has tastes that change almost too rapidly for staff to keep up.
“Some days she won’t eat,” Assistant Curator Steve Blair tells the L.A. Times. “Other days she goes on benders, feasting only on one type of food. Her tastes change from one day to the next. The tricky part is figuring out what thing triggers her hunger on a given day.”
The shark is supposed to eat about a half pound of meat a day and its menu choices have been expanded to include over 30 items such as mackerel, snapper, squid, ono, fresh water eels, chicken, flank steak, quail and $20-a-pound lobster tails.
Photo reblogged from The Animal Blog
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A 13-foot, 1,102-pound megamouth shark—only the 41st such shark ever found—was recently discovered off the coast of the Philippines. Locals then celebrated the discovery by eating said shark. The shark is so rare that the species is classified by the International union for Conservation of Nature as “data deficient.
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This dog was a real-life castaway
This pooch, named Sophie Tucker (after the vaudeville star, curiously), went boating with her owner, fell overboard off the coast of Queensland Australia, swam five miles through what the Daily Mail calls “ferocious shark-infested seas,” and lived on a volcanic island for over four months by hunting wild goats for food.
She was eventually spotted by the few residents of the island, who notified wildlife rangers, who reunited Sophie with her people.
The hair-raising series of events started when Sophie (inset above) was yachting with owner Jan Griffith and tumbled into the waves in bad weather off the town of Mackay, Australia. “I thought I’d never see her again,” says Griffith, “but she’s proved to be a dog who can really look after herself.”
Sophie struck out paddling for St. Bees Island, a tiny, hilly, rainforesty place fringed with reefs, home mainly to koalas and the wild goats. Though Sophie entered the water inside the Great Barrier Reef, which helps keep sharks away from the coast, tiger sharks and hammerheads are apt to swim through the coral and attack and, announces one fisherman quoted in the article, “The smell of a wet dog is irresistible to a shark.”
When Griffiths heard that a pup had been recovered, she doubted it could be Sophie, but went to find out. When the boat carrying Sophie’s crate neared the dock… “We called her name and she went crazy - whimpering and banging on the cage,” says Griffith, “so they let her out and she ran over to us and almost knocked us over with excitement. … She’s settled in well back at home now. I think she’s appreciating the air conditioning.”
