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Black Tip Shark
Conservation Staus: Vunrable
The blacktip shark (not to be confused with the Black Tip Reef), Carcharhinus limbatus, is a large shark, native to the continental and insular shelves of tropical and warm temperate seas around the world.
The blacktip is a large fairly stout shark, grey in colour, normally with black-tipped fins. It has a long, narrow, pointed snout, long gill slits, a large first dorsal fin and fairly large second dorsal.
Like its close relative the spinner shark, C. brevipinna, the blacktip shark is a fast swimming shark capable not only of breaching but also of rotating (spinning) several times before re-entering the water. It is non-aggressive and would be unlikely to attack humans without stimulus.
There is some evidence of segregation with some populations showing separation between groups of adult males and non-pregnant females on the one hand and pregnant females and young on the other.
Blacktip sharks feed mainly on a wide range of bony fish: sardines, herring, mullet, jacks, and Spanish mackerel, among others; the young of other sharks including dusky sharks; and some cephalopods and crustaceans.
The blacktip shark is viviparous and has a yolk-sac placenta with 1 - 10 pups per litter (4 - 7 as a mean figure). The gestation period is believed to be 10 to 12 months and females are thought to breed every other year.
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