Necrophagy of a nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) by tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier)

The aim of this study is to report a scavenging event, involving the consumption of a nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum, by tiger sharks, Galeocerdo cuvier, at Fernando de Noronha archipelago, Brazil. Recreational divers found and photographed a bitten nurse shark carcass, just after sighting two...

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2015
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
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Repositorio Universidad Javeriana
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eng
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oai:repository.javeriana.edu.co:10554/31541
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http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/scientarium/article/view/13393
http://hdl.handle.net/10554/31541
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