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[release]The photo says it all: an alien-looking shark, adorned with mossy hairs and a flat face, with its mouth agape and a slender bamboo shark headfirst inside. Though not unusual for a shark to snack on another shark, it's not typical behavior — and it's certainly not common for humans to catch the action firsthand.In fact, the researchers who came upon the shark-eat-shark scene on the fringes of Great Keppel Island on the southern Great Barrier Reef didn't realize at first what they were looking at.
"The white bamboo shark appeared first, and as we came closer, we suddenly realized that its head was not hidden under a ledge, as is usual, but in the mouth of the very well-camouflaged wobbegong," Daniela Ceccarelli of Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence (ARC) for Coral Reef Studies, told LiveScience, adding that "witnessing predation events like this is very rare."
Ceccarelli and David Williams, also of ARC, were conducting a fish census there on Aug. 1, 2011, when they spotted the sharks.
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a 30-minute observation, the researchers said the sharks didn't move, with the wobbegong shark not progressing in its ingestion of the likely dead bamboo shark. Researchers presume that the wobbegong eventually consumed its prey, after several hours.[/B]
The eater in this party was a tasselled wobbegong shark ([I]Eucrossorhinus dasypogon[/I]) more than 4 feet long (1.3 meter); the wobbegong's prey was a 3.2-foot-long (1 m) brown-banded bamboo shark ([I]Chiloscyllium punctatum[/I]). Like other wobbegong species, this one is an ambush predator, lying in wait on the seabed and then attacking prey at high speed.
"It's not unusual for them to prey on other sharks, especially small sharks such as the bamboo shark, as they forage for invertebrates on the seabed," Ceccarelli said.
They watched the sharks for about 30 minutes, with neither shark moving during that stint. The wobbegong didn't further ingest the bamboo shark, the researchers note in a brief article published online Feb. 4 in the journal Coral Reefs. "We didn't observe the end of the predation event, but as the bamboo shark was most definitely dead, we assume that the wobbegong eventually consumed it," Ceccarelli said. The meal would likely have taken at least several more hours, the researchers point out in their paper.
Wobbegongs also have jaws that can dislocate, a large gape and sharp, rearward-pointing teeth, allowing them to grasp relatively large prey before swallowing it whole, the researchers noted.[/release]
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Holy shit
[i]SHARKCEPTION[/I]
I will purchase one of these sharks, train it to eat other sharks, and have it protect me when I go swimming at the beach.
A perfect plan.
A ghillie shark eating another shark? CoD: Modern Seafare I say.
[QUOTE=Master X;34865564]I will purchase one of these sharks, train it to eat other sharks, and have it protect me when I go swimming at the beach.
A perfect plan.[/QUOTE]The enemy of my enemy is my friend?
We need to stop this shark on shark violence. It's exactly what the white shark wants us to do
Wobbegong sounds like a pokemon
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[I]Resistance is futile.[/I]
[QUOTE=Occlusion;34865590]Wobbegong sounds like a pokemon[/QUOTE]
Wobbuffet + Dewgong
If this is just off around some coral reef somewhere it really makes you think what the hell is at the bottom of the oceans.
[b][h2]SLURP[/h2][/b]
[QUOTE=Master X;34865564]I will purchase one of these sharks, train it to eat other sharks, and have it protect me when I go swimming at the beach.
A perfect plan.[/QUOTE]
Til it gets hungry from the lack of sharks and swallows your head whole. Actually that's one of my biggest fears, my head getting swallowed. Probably fueled by the las plagas type 2 in Resident Evil 4(giant centipede that replaces the head of some enemies and will actually bite yours off.).
oh god it knows how to camouflage itself
My vore fetish is tingling
[QUOTE=zombini;34865804]Til it gets hungry from the lack of sharks and swallows your head whole. Actually that's one of my biggest fears, my head getting swallowed. Probably fueled by the las plagas type 2 in Resident Evil 4(giant centipede that replaces the head of some enemies and will actually bite yours off.).[/QUOTE]
I [I]fucking [/I][B]hate [/B]those things!
I'll remember to keep a flashbang on me.
It's a shark eat shark world out there.
[QUOTE=OvB;34866001]It's a shark eat shark world out there.[/QUOTE]
If you read the article, it already said that.
[QUOTE=DeandreT;34865737]If this is just off around some coral reef somewhere it really makes you think what the hell is at the bottom of the oceans.[/QUOTE]
6/7 gill sharks, Greenland sharks, goblins sharks, and other prehistoric stuff.
its a shark eat shark world down in the deep blue nigga. those niggas blood thirsty.
[QUOTE=zombini;34866017]If you read the article, it already said that.[/QUOTE]
Riding in a car on the freeway. Only skimmed through it. Must have over looked that part, my mistake.
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Damn nature, you scary!
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"This isn't where I left my glasses!"
[QUOTE=An Armed Bear;34866461]"This isn't where I left my glasses!"[/QUOTE]
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Here you go, probably what you wanted.
[editline]25th February 2012[/editline]
On Topic; That is quite an amazing find, and how rare it apparently is to see this just makes it even more amazing.
