Blacktip Reef Shark

The Blacktip Reef Shark is one of the most abundant sharks in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.  They feed on bony fish, crustaceans, cephalopods (squid, octopus, nautoloids, and cuttlefish) plus they also eat sea snakes and seabirds sometimes.

Blacktip Reef Shark

Size wise a Blacktip Reef Shark is about 1.6-2 meters long.  That is about 5.2-6.6 feet long.  The females carry the young for around a year or more and give birth to usually 2 live pups.  These sharks are timid and rarely approach people, although waders in shallow water sometimes are mistakenly bitten by them, but humans are not aggressively attacked.

Photo of Blacktip Reef Sharks from Living Planet Aquarium