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Selective Predation on Large Cheloniid Sea Turtles by Tiger Sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier)
イタチザメによるウミガメ科の大形カメ類に対する選択的捕食
1987
Japanese journal of herpetology
イタチザメによるウミガメ科の大形カメ類に対する選択的捕食
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Tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) selectively prey on large cheloniid sea turtles. Of 404 tiger shark stomachs examined in eight previously published studies, 327 (80.9%) contained food; and 68 (20.8%) of those sharks with food also contained large cheloniid sea turtle remains. The literature indicates that tiger sharks are the only elasmobranch predator that consistantly earts large boney turtles. Tiger sharks are able to specialize in such a diet because they share the same inshore habitat as
doi:10.5358/hsj1972.12.1_22
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