Female shark devours male Shark in aquarium turf war

[erpowers]

Visitors to the COEX Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday were in for a gruesome surprise.

They watched in shock as an 8-year-old female sand tiger shark slowly devoured a smaller 5-year-old male banded hound shark. The 7-foot, 3-inch long female shark apparently cannibalized the male in what is described as a "turf war" within the shark tank, Reuters reports.

The initial attack took place in the early evening, but it took the bigger shark 21 hours to finish off the job, bite by bite. By the next day, all that remained of the male shark was the tip of his tail hanging out of the hungry sand tiger shark's mouth.

"Sharks have their own territory. However, sometimes when they bump against each other, they bite out of astonishment," the aquarium's PR manager, Oh Tae-youp told reporters. "I think the shark swallowed the whole body, because they usually eat it all when they bite the head part."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/female-shark-eats-male-coex-aquarium-south-korea/

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1. Trump is the sand shark.

Cruz the hound shark.

[davidpdx]

2. Wow, I had no idea they did that.

I live in South Korea and have been to COEX Mall, but have never been in the aquarium.

I just got back from Cebu and went swimming with whale sharks. They are pretty harmless, but very beautiful up close. I had an underwater camera and was able to get some pictures of them. When you are in the water with them you have to be very careful to know which direction they are coming from because you are not allowed to touch them. I had one or two close calls and ended up swimming backward to make sure there was enough distance between myself and the whale shark.

[randome]

3. Green with envy? Or indigestion?

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