If you were looking for another excuse to visit The Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ then look no further. This spring during the break, Adventure Aquarium will be welcoming Pacific Blacktip Reef Sharks to their collection. Harboring the largest collection of sharks in the North East, the Blacktip is known for the speed and agility and their very distinguishable blacktip fin.
The pacific joins other species of sharks that call Adventure Aquarium home like the Sand-Tiger Shark, the Silky Shark and the only Great Hammerhead Shark on exhibit in the United States.
Here are some Pacific Blacktip Shark facts to prepare you for your visit:
- Black tip sharks can reach up to 8 feet in length and 66 to 200 pounds in weight. Males are larger than females.
- Black tip sharks eat various types of fish (sardines, mackerels, mullets…), large crustaceans, snails, octopuses, stingrays and squids.
- Black tip sharks need to swim constantly to prevent suffocation (water enters the gills only when shark swims). They also need to swim to prevent sinking, because they do not have swimming bladder.
- Black tip sharks sometimes follow fishing boats to feed on discarded fish and other sea creatures.
- Black tip sharks can survive up to 12 years in the wild.
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