The Tiger Shark

(Galeocardo Cuvier)

This shark is also very dangerous just like the Great white. The Tigershark is more common and that is probably the reason why this shark has the highest statistics of attacking humans. It is also a big shark and it could be just a little smaller than the Great White. The Tigershark lives in the heated oceans near the coasts. It is a very good swimmer and often travels very long distances. The reason they got the name is not due to their temperament, but to the fact that they have dark stripes on their bodies when they are young. If these sharks get excited they can attack and try to eat almost anything, people have found beer cans, wood pieces etc, that they have swallowed.

In Australia there was a weird story that took place in the year of 1935. A 4.4 m Tigershark was captured and brought to an akvarium in a town called Coogee. Several days later the shark throwed up and an arm belonging to a human was found. But the arm was not ripped off in a shark attack, it had been done with something sharp, probably a knife. On the arm there were some tattoos and they managed to identify the man to whom the arm belonged. His name was James Smith. James had been reported as missing one week earlier. The police thought that the James had been murdered, slaughtered and then just dumped in the ocean. The person that where last seen with James was a man named Patrick Brady. Patrick confessed when the police found his fingerprints on the arm belonging to James. Why did Patrick Brady murder James Smith? A question I dont have any answers to. (Thankyou AnKa for information.)

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