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Shark Research in Ponta do Ouro, Mozambique: Don't just love sharks, learn about them!
Ponta do Ouro, Mozambique
Joined September 2014
Pile on! Tiger sharks feeding on a whale carcass would have once been referred to as a ‘feeding frenzy,’ a chaotic eat and/or be eaten event. In observing two such events, we’ve learned that tiger sharks have.
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Pearly whites. This is what a tiger shark feeding on a whale carcass looks like. Tiger shark teeth, with their saw-edges and cockscomb shape, are perfect tools for sawing through flesh. See if you can catch a.
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Recently a humpback whale carcass provided us the opportunity to observe a communal tiger shark scavenging event at our study site in Mozambique. We estimate at least 30 tiger sharks and 10 bull sharks were.
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Hey there hefty. Gurthrude, released here by @the_fishing_scientist, is one of the largest tiger sharks tagged in Southern Africa, weighing in at over half a ton (540kg/1200lbs). Such large sharks can make.
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Hey there hefty. Gurthrude, released here by JD Filmalter, is one of the largest tiger sharks tagged in Southern Africa, weighing in at over half a ton (540kg/1200lbs). Such large sharks can make...
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A question mark. A satellite tag deployed on a bull shark at our study site recently popped up, 6 months later and 500 miles/800 km away. For three weeks we received location data from the tag, watching as it.
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A question mark. A satellite tag deployed on a bull shark at our study site recently popped up, 6 months later and 500 miles/800 km away. For three weeks we received location data from the tag,...
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What better name for a 4m/13ft long shark and 540kg/1,193lb shark than Gurthrude? OCEARCH has supported our ongoing tiger shark research in Mozambique by supplying us with satellite tags for sharks like this.
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The 4.16m female tiger shark tagged in the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve in December is on the move!.
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After spending 6 months within a 150km stretch of coastline between the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve and.
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This 4.1m female tiger shark has called the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve home for the last 6 months and.
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Cool video from the University of Miami explaining how tagging sharks can help to determine their core habitat.
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Have a look at the latest blog on the Save Our Seas Foundation site about tagging tiger sharks in the.
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This 4.1m female tiger shark was tagged in the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve in early December 2015 and.
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Another bull shark satellite tag from Ponta do Ouro washed up on the beach today about 18km north of Sodwana Bay.
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Ever wondered what a year in the life of a Ponta do Ouro #tigershark was like? A short video of this 3.3m male.
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Ever wondered what a year in the life of a Ponta do Ouro tiger shark was like? A short video of this 3.3m male tiger shark, tagged in January 2014, shows that it spends a lot of time in South...
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