The Reef Sharks

These sharks belong to the Reef sharks and are called Whitetip Reef sharks.
They are very common in the pacific ocean´s coralreefs.
The shark usually rests in some dark cave or under some corals at daytime.
This shark is not that aggressive
compared to the Great White or the Tiger shark but it is known that these sharks also have attacked humans. Normally this shark eats fish that it has caught near bottom in depths down to 40-45 meters.

This is a Grey Reef shark and it also lives in the pacific ocean´s coralreef. This shark lives side by side with the Whitetip and the Blacktip. These three reefsharks are smaller than the Great White and the Tigershark.
It grows to a length of 2.5-3.5 meters.
All these three sharks live on fish but can also attack bigger animals.

This is the third and final reefshark I have on this page, the Blacktip. When these sharks (not only the reefsharks) start to swim in spirals, lifting their heads up they are showing that they soon are going to attack if, for example, a diver does not swim away. If we knew more about shark´s behavior there would be even less attacks on humans. We must remember that humans enter the shark´s world, and in their world we must learn to see the signals that are shown to us.

This site is mastered by Dan Jonsson alias DDj

Last updated 1999-06-02