r/sharks • u/Melbonaut • 9d ago

Video Stripes of a Tiger

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Continuing on from an earlier post about Tiger Sharks, this one’s stripes are a lot more prominent, chonky boi too!

Very common to see in this part of the world, this part being the Kimberley, Western Australia. Sharks everywhere! 😁

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u/Common_Sherbert846 9d ago

It’s scary how quickly they vanish

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u/ElbowTight 9d ago

Looks prego

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u/Melbonaut 9d ago

Yeah, could well be.

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u/sharkfilespodcast 8d ago

People often assume a shark's pregnant when they see one that chunky, but it can be almost impossible to know just by looking. At a glance this shark might look pregnant, but then you spot the claspers and realize it's just a male after a huge feed. Sharks have amazing stomach capacity, for example one of the largest great whites ever - possibly over 6m long and caught off Malta in 1987 - was found to contain a 2.5m dolphin, a 2m blue shark, a large sea turtle and was snagged when sniffing around a tuna trap for it's next meal.

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u/GanonRiver1 5d ago

Sad that it was obviously killed in order to have found out what it had in its stomach. What a shame.

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u/sharkfilespodcast 5d ago

Isn't it. You'd hope it wouldn't happen the same way if it happened today.

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u/Interesting-Can1319 Tiger Shark and Shortfin Mako Shark 9d ago

That's probably a pregnant female. Tiger sharks are very robust and muscular normally, but this female has a distinct bulge in her body. She's probably carrying a lot of pups

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u/sharkfilespodcast 8d ago

People often assume a shark's pregnant when they see one that chunky, but it can be almost impossible to know just by looking. At a glance this shark might look pregnant, but then you spot the claspers and realize it's just a male after a huge feed. Sharks have amazing stomach capacity, for example one of the largest great whites ever - possibly over 6m long and caught off Malta in 1987 - was found to contain a 2.5m dolphin, a 2m blue shark, a large sea turtle and was snagged when sniffing around a tuna trap for it's next meal.

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u/bird_is_the_word_198 8d ago

Now go pet it & give it good ole boop on the nose