Emergence
by Aaron Whittemore
Title
Emergence
Artist
Aaron Whittemore
Medium
Photograph - Photographic Images
Description
This Great Hammerhead Shark is a seasonal resident of the waters neighboring the island of Bimini in the Bahamas. She was given the name "Nemesis" by the Bimini Biological Field Station - Shark Lab, headquartered on Bimini. Great Hammerheads are considered endangered world wide. Nemesis and some of the other sharks in this small resident population have satellite tags attached to their dorsal fins. The Shark Lab has tracked their movements, most often to the Florida coast, but also as far away as Virginia, a round trip of three thousand miles. Unfortunately the US Federal government has reinstated commercial fishing for sharks in US territorial waters on the East coast. I fear this will have a devastating effect on these magnificent Great Hammerheads. These sharks effectively have chemo receptors in their cephalofoils, or Hammer, that enable them to detect the electrical fields of their prey on the Ocean floor. The preferred prey of the Great Hammerhead is most often Stingrays, but also other sharks, bony fishes, cephalopods, crustaceans, and invertebrates. These sharks can grow to as long as 6 meters, the largest seen so far in this community is thought to be between 4 and 4 1/2 meters, perhaps 13 feet long.
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March 28th, 2017
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