Über den ungewöhnlichen Lebensweg eines weiblichen Sandtigerhais (Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810)

Abstract

This paper provides some information on the life history and development data of the female sand tiger shark from its birth in Japan in 2001 to its removal from the Berlin Zoo Aquarium to the Ozeaneum in Stralsund in 2012. Within a period of ten and a half years, the length of the shark doubled from 1 to 2 meters and its weight increased from 12 to 200 kilograms.