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Tiger Sharks

Tiger Sharks. By Reade Plunkett. Introduction. Tiger sharks species is a fish. Tiger shark is 14 feet long. Tiger sharks have stripes like a Tiger but they fade over years. Tiger shark can weigh up to 3 tons. Tiger sharks can live to about 25 years.

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Tiger Sharks

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  1. Tiger Sharks By Reade Plunkett

  2. Introduction • Tiger sharks species is a fish. • Tiger shark is 14 feet long. • Tiger sharks have stripes like a Tiger but they fade over years. • Tiger shark can weigh up to 3 tons. • Tiger sharks can live to about 25 years. • People like to kill tiger sharks for their fins, meat but also some people don’t mean to kill them.

  3. Habitat • Tiger sharks spend day in deep waters and night in shallow waters so they can hunt. • Tiger sharks have to adapt to living in wide open space. • Tiger sharks live in an interesting landform they live in the Coral Reef. • Tiger sharks are carnivore because it mostly eats meat. • Tiger shark also eats garbage, Tiger sharks will eat anything it finds.

  4. Behavior • Tiger Sharks are very active at night because that is when they hunt for food to eat. • Tiger sharks also usually are not to active at day time because they do not have any food to catch and they might be taking a break. • Tiger sharks also kill people a lot but they don’t mean to. • They make the second most kills on people.

  5. Babies • Female Tiger sharks can give birth to 10 and 80 pups at one time. • A pup is a baby shark that was just born. • Tiger sharks lay eggs and watches them so no predators eat them. • After the mother watches her pups hatch they are off to live a happy life. • Pups do not stick around with their mother after they are born they live by them selves.

  6. Physical Adaptations • Tiger sharks have fins that help them swim so they can escape from predators, they also have them to catch prey. • Tiger sharks have thousands of teeth so they can catch prey and eat things because when Tiger sharks chew they can easily lose their teeth. • Tiger sharks are grayish but if you look very closely then you can see they have stripes like a Tiger, this help them to survive because it helps them blend in.

  7. Behavioral Adaptations • Tiger sharks body is shaped a certain way so it can make sharp turns to catch prey and to not let prey get away. • Tiger sharks hunt at night so they will blend in with the dark water and the sand. • They have to hunt at night to catch their prey. So they blend.

  8. Physiological Adaptations • Tiger sharks have 5 to 7 gills so they can breath. • Tiger sharks have multiple rows of teeth and when they lose their teeth and then they grow new ones. • Tiger sharks do not have lungs to breath in air like a sea turtle they have gills to help breath in air like a fish.

  9. Fun Facts • Tiger sharks are the second most deadly sharks in the world. • Tiger sharks eat sea turtles so they have heart shaped teeth to crack the turtle shells. • Some times Tiger sharks can swim to 50 miles or more a day. • Tiger sharks are also the waste basket of the seas because they eat trash. • Tiger sharks are called leopard sharks too.

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