Nabilah


 * Job 3 Animal Research Project Answer the following questions about your animal. **Classification
 * What is the name of your endangered animal? It IS called the bull shark.
 * Classify your animal. What living group does your animal belong to? The bull shark is a fish group because it "breathes" its oxygen by passing water over its gills unlike mammals like the whale which breathes in air through its lungs.
 * Does your animal have a scientific name? The bull shark scientific name is carcharhinus leucas.
 * How many stages are in your animal's life cycle? There are three stages in my life cycle.
 * How does your animal look like at each stage of its life cycle? It looks very different from each other. What can your animal do at each stage?It can only eat very little food starting with a shrimp.
 * Find a pictures of each stage of your animal's life cycle and label it .This is a picture of an adult bull shark.

Adult shark

Young Shark**

Baby Shark **

Habitat ** === The bull shark can be found in lakes and rivers. It prowls in shallow waters. The bull shark migrates. About 2,300 bull sharks migrate seasonally. Their migration route is from the upper Amazon River to the sea. === >
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 * What is your animal's habitat?
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What continent, country, and type of habitat does it live in? <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"> Bull sharks are found in tropical and subtropical waters almost everywhere in the world and they prefer to live close to, or even in rivers. They belong to a minority species, capable of living in sweet water as sexually mature individuals. They are found in various rivers such as the Mississippi, the Amazon or the Zambezi. In the Mississipi river they are found all the way up to Illinois, and in the Amazon as far inland as 3,500 km
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Find a picture of your animal in its habitat.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What does your animal have or do to help it live there? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The bull shark can adapt itself for living in fresh water and salt water, they can leave the sea and swim upstream a river.



**Food Chain**


 * How does your animal fit into the food chain? Is it a carnivore, omnivore, or herbivore?<span style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #484848; font-family: verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Sharks hold a legendary spot at the top of the marine food chain. A new study suggests that overfishing of sharks by humans can cause that chain to crumble.They are carnivores.
 * What does it eat? The bull shark diet is, fish, other sharks, marine mammals, sea turtles, wildebeest crossing a river and even humans!
 * What eats it? The large saltwater crocodile eats smaller bull shark on the banks of the Daly River Australia when it grabbed it in its jaws and dragged it up on to a sandbank.Another known eater of bull sharks are humans!

Interesting Facts

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The bull shark looks different from most types of sharks. It got its name because it looks like a bull. The bull shark can live to be 12 years old.
 * What are some interesting facts about your animal? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The bull shark is the only shark that can live in both fresh and salt water.
 * What about them would most people find unusual?


 * Endangerment**
 * Is your animal endangered? Yes.the bull shark is endangered.
 * What are the main reasons for its endangerment? <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">Bull sharks currently are not threatened or in the "low" of being actually endangered. However, they are fished widely for their meat, hides, and oils, and their numbers are likely shrinking. One study has found that their average lengths have declined significantly over the past few decades.
 * Give evidence for each reason.<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal;">This shark species lives mainly in shore areas and coastal regions, and thus often becomes victim to coastal fishing activities. They are caught with long-lines but also frequently turn up as incidental catch and their nurseries are also destroyed by man because of pollution near these coastal regions.

Accidents

 * Why is it important to save your animal?<span style="color: #00182c; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;">South Africa is a shark diving Mecca of the world and Aliwal Shoal is one of the shark diving hotspots of the country. Every year thousands of tourists come to South Africa to have a unique diving experience with some of the oceans top predators. This eco-tourist industry brings in millions of dollars of revenue, and provides job opportunities to a country with a high unemployment rate. If we don't save the sharks it will also affect a country badly.
 * What can you do to save your animal? I can encourage myself, my family , my relatives and friends to donate some money to groups that work with bull sharks on the internet such as Shark Savers and stop eating shark fin soup which happens to be my mum' s favourite soup.In Singapore , it is the number 1 soup there.They always serve shark fins soup in weddings , special business meetings , all seafood restaurants and tons of it during Chinese New Year.
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Resources


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 * __Comments__**

good i like your work it has information i did not know at all keep up with the good work, i wish if there is more colors not just red and black. from;sima h. Hey Nabilah! Good job! Those pictures are cool. -LEILA did you find the information from a book or a web? Elias i liked every thing especially the pictures from nasser i like it a lot! i love bull sharks. i think we need to start helping the sharks because we dont want them to all die. **Tayla** i like your wiki great job nabilah alghadeer i love your work.salma good good good good good good good good good good good good good good god good good good good abdulazeez great job niceeeeeeeeee greattttttttttttttttttttttttt job by: shuaib