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The tiger shark is one of the largest ocean predators and relies on camouflage and stealth to capture its prey. This solitary, nocturnal carnivore is nomadic and can be found in the epipelagic and mesopelagic zones of neritic and oceanic habitats. The only viviparous species of its family, it gives birth to live young.

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Free-For-All: Tiger Shark

Posted on February 29, 2020September 18, 2021 by Noelle M. Brooks in Art, Free-For-All, Updates

OrangeDrawer created a mostly monochromatic digital illustration with a great sense of depth and environment. The colors, lighting, and detail work of this piece created a moody scene that captured the depths of the tiger shark's habitat.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 29, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

The tiger shark's triennial reproductive cycle reduces its ability to recover from fishing pressure but its widespread distribution increases the likelihood that it will survive increasing levels of exploitation.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 28, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

There are no conservation or management measures in place for the tiger shark, but there are bans, quotas, and fishing seasons to regulate catch of the coastal shark.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 27, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Although very unlikely, tiger sharks enter shallow, populated areas of coastlines and attack humans on rare occasions.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 26, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Because tiger sharks are some of the largest predators in the ocean, they have few species that feed on them, however juveniles fall prey to other sharks.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 25, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

The tiger shark has a higher intrinsic rate of population increase than many other carcharhinids due to its relatively large litter sizes of 10-80 pups, although many won't survive to adulthood.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 24, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Although the total number of tiger sharks worldwide is unknown, they're known to have a decreasing population trend and have declined 30% over the past 3 generations of 53-68 years.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 23, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

The tiger shark relies on Ampullae of Lorenzini electromagnetic receptors on the end of its nose and lateral lines on both sides of the body to perceive its environment and to hunt prey.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 22, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Tiger sharks live longer in the wild than in captivity, averaging 27 years and a maximum age estimated at 37 years.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 21, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Tiger sharks have no parental investment, so pups are born fully developed and independent with traits that help them survive without parents such as camouflage patterning, teeth, and speed.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 20, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Tiger sharks share a commensal relationship with remoras, small suckerfish that attach to the sharks for transportation and protection while feeding on materials dropped by the predators.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 19, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Tiger sharks have serrated teeth, making it easy to tear flesh and crack the bones and shells of their prey.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 18, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

The tiger shark is the only species of the Carcharhinidae family that is lecithotrophic viviparous, giving birth to 26-33 live young in a protective nursery after a gestation of 13-16 months.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 17, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

The tiger shark uses its heterocercal tail as its primary source of propulsion, moving in an S-shaped fashion.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 16, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

There is regional variability in the size and age that tiger sharks sexually mature and males mature earlier than females, at 25-30.5 m. compared to females at 27.4-34.5. in length.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 15, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

The tiger shark is found in the epipelagic zone of 0-200 meters and occasionally makes longer-distance excursions into the mesopelagic zone of 200-1,000 meters.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 14, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Tiger sharks display sexual dimorphism in body size as females are smaller than males.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 13, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Tiger sharks are a popular gamefish typically captured and released for sport, but can be tiring to fish as they're fast, strong, and not quickly or easily exhausted.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark Trivia

Posted on February 12, 2020January 28, 2021 by Noelle M. Brooks in Trivia, Updates

Do you think you know the tiger shark? Test your knowledge of tiger shark FaunaFacts with this trivia quiz!

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 12, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Tiger sharks are solitary except during the mating seasons or while communally feeding when a loose social hierarchy is followed, allowing larger, more dominant sharks to feed before smaller ones.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 11, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Due to exploitation from commercial, recreational, and unregulated fisheries, the tiger shark has a "Near Threatened" evaluation on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and is close to meeting "Vulnerable".

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 10, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Tiger sharks spend 36% of their time in shallow coastline habitats up to 145 m., and females are observed in shallow areas more often than males.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 9, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

The tiger shark is nomadic and highly mobile and has been documented traveling up to 16 km. in a single day.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 8, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Tiger sharks are polygynandrous, mating once every three years and breeding earlier in the northern hemisphere, from March-June than in the southern hemisphere, from November-March.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 7, 2020February 12, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Tiger sharks live shorter lifespans in captivity, averaging 17-20 years, often dying of starvation due to the lacking appeal of dead food.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 7, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

The tiger shark is caught by commercial, recreational, small-scale, and artisanal fisheries as a target species or incidental bycatch for its high quality fins, skin, liver oil, meat, and cartilage.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 6, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Large tiger sharks can survive several weeks without feeding.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 6, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

The tiger shark has a circumglobal range in subtropical and tropical, warm, temperate oceans, ranging between latitudes of approximately 40°N to 36°S.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

The tiger shark's common name originates from the tiger-like stripes on the backs of juveniles that allow them to blend in with their environment.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 4, 2020February 3, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Tiger sharks are nocturnal predators that rely on stealth and camouflage rather than strength and speed to catch prey.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 3, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

The tiger shark is a saltwater species and inhabits marine neritic and oceanic habitats near shelves, seagrass, and coral reefs.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 2, 2020February 3, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Tiger sharks are carnivorous and eat mollusks, birds, snakes, crustaceans, sea turtles, dugongs, and even dead or injured whales.

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Tiger Shark

Tiger Shark

Posted on February 1, 2020February 1, 2020 by Noelle M. Brooks in FaunaFacts

Tiger sharks are one of the largest ocean predators and the largest member of the Carcharhinidae family with a sizeable blunt nose on the end of a wedge-shaped head.

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