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Why should the Sandbar Shark be nominated to be the bay critter of the year?

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Why should the Sandbar Shark be nominated to be the bay critter of the year?

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The sandbar shark should be the bay critter of the year because this shark and every other shark seems like a bad predator but really it helps us, food wise. Like we said, Sandbar Sharks eat fish, crabs, shrimp, etc. If there is a dangerous predator out in the ocean (for example,  a piranha.) The sandbar shark can eat it.

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what would happen if it was removed from the food web?

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what would happen if it was removed from the food web?

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the sandbar shark eats a lot of things but it mostly eats fish well and the fish eats small fish and the small fish eats algae but if theres no small fish our ecosystem will be packed with algae this is why we need sharks in our ecosystem

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killing sharks takes 30% of habitat destruction

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about 1 million sharks get killed every year

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they live at the bottom of the ocean thats were they hunt there prey down and spend most of there time

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What animal does the sandbar shark cooperate with?

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What animal does the sandbar shark cooperate with?

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it is not so social but at moments is cooperates with the spiny dogfish shark also but also bull sharks

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without sharks there would be small animal extinction algae overgrowth and coral reef deaths .Sharks are crucial part of the marine ecosystem and are necessary for the worlds oceans to operate.its not only bad for the ecosystem its bad for us because some people rely on shark for food.

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Where does it stand in the energy pyramid?

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Where does it stand in the energy pyramid?

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Its a consumer because it eats shrimp,fish,crabs,ect its secondary because it eats primary consumers which are animals that eat plants.the sandbar shark is a carnivore because it lives on flesh.

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Carcharclhus plumbeus

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Adults have few predators.Juveniles may be preyed upon by bull sharks and other large sharks

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Here's a video of a sandbar shark swimming

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Here's a video of a sandbar shark swimming

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https://youtu.be/TAVaKFXeQwg

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YES! its does they  mostly stay at the bottom of the ocean getting food and thats were they mostly hang out

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The most distinctive feature of this stocky, grey shark is its huge dorsal fin

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it has brownish or dark gray body with a whitish belly its fin incenses its swimming ability

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The sandbar shark inhabits coastal waters, favoring water that is 20 to 65 meters deep

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the sandbar shark prefers remaining near the bottom

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the sandbar shark is part of the carcharclhus family and its native to the Atlantic ocean and the indo pacific

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Sandbar sharks feed throughout the day but becomes more active at night

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Bays and estuaries between Delaware and North Carolina off the US coast are common sandbar shark nurseries. Juveniles remain in or near the nursing grounds until late fall after which they form schools and migrate to deeper waters. They return to the nursing grounds during warmer months

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*Fish
*Crabs
*Shrimp
*Squid
*eels