Carcharhinus limbatus
Blacktip shark
Conservation status
Near threatened.
Categories and criteria of the IUCN Red List:
Fun facts
DNA evidence was found in 2008, proving that a female fertilizes its eggs without male input.
They jump over the water, twirling, and falling on their backs, sometimes hitting schools of fish as a feeding strategy.
General aspects
A shark with a somewhat long snout with a pointy end, and small eyes. It measures between 4 and 6 feet long, and males are larger than females.
They live both on the coast and in the open sea, throughout the entire planet.
It actively hunts fish, small sharks, rays, cephalopods and crustaceans.