Audubon Magazine: How Are Birds Ending Up In Tiger Shark Bellies?


Photo Credit: Albert kok

Weird wildlife news has crossed headlines lately: For the second year in a row, researchers have found bird remains in tiger shark bellies. Researchers from Alabama’s Dauphin Island Sea Lab caught the sharks in the Gulf of Mexico, according to an article appearing in the Alabama’s Press-Register. Among their stomachs' avian contents were migratory species, such as scarlet tanagers, as well as more land-based birds, such as brown thrashers.

The findings beg the question: How in the world did creatures of the sky end up inside denizens of the deep?

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 1/26/2012 7:00 AM
Categories: Sharks
Tags: tiger sharks birds gulf of mexico sharks food
 

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