Those who dive oftentimes understand there are risks involved , from checking yourequipmentto the conditions of the conditions and weewee when you dive . However , few perhaps would consider the hazard that a tiger shark might steal your earpiece .
David Finch was diving at Tiger Beach off the west coast of Grand Bahama and was shoot the sharks around a lure crate in the midsection of the dive group . He noticed one of the tiger sharks , a female named Jitterbug , look curiously at his phone .
“ So I gave it to her to check out , ” Finch toldStoryful . “ She does n’t have mitt so she used her rima oris to inspect it , make up one’s mind it ’s not food , and spit out it back out . I have done this a few times over the years . ”
Panthera tigris sharks ( Galeocerdo cuvier ) get their name from the stripe that juveniles possess down their backs – however , once they mature the stripes start to fade and can almostdisappear . These shark are widespread in tropical and temperate Ethel Waters across the world and typically turn to an telling 3 - 4 metre ( 10 - 14 foot ) and librate around 386 - 635 kilogram ( 850 - 1,400 pounds ) . However , some large adults can reach around 6 meters ( 20 feet ) and 861 kilogram ( 1,900 Syrian pound ) . This makes tiger sharks the fourthly largest shark species , and the second largest predatory shark species behind the great white .
In the video , Jitterbug mouths the phone – which is still recording – before biting it and spit out it back out . This gives us a clear shot inside her mouth and off her gills from the interior . Tiger sharks are get it on for being aggressive vulture and let avaried diet – they ’ve even triedechidna ! They can consume just about anything , from sea turtles and ocean snakes to other fish , seabird , and even some maritime mammals . There have even been cases of cannibalism where adult Panthera tigris sharks will consumejuveniles .
Humans have harvested skin , quintuplet , and liver from Panthera tigris shark populations . Their liver hold in mellow degree of vitamin A which is used to raise vitamin oil . They are also frequently caught as bycatch by trawl line piscary and in relatively low number by tunny fishers . They are listed as Near Threatened by theIUCN .
