Stingray Hunter Metal Print

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This Great Hammerhead Shark is a seasonal resident of the waters neighboring the island of Bimini in the Bahamas. Great Hammerheads are considered endangered world wide. Some of the sharks in this small resident population have satellite tags attached to their dorsal fins. The Bimini Biological Field Station - 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 gro...

I have been blessed with many opportunities. Some so-called "wildlife" photographers, make their reputations selling images of captive, and baited animals and birds posed by professional handlers, and photographed at game farms, and various pre-selected scenic locations. All my wildlife images are of wild animals only, and are the result of countless hours, days, weeks...etc of effort. Each photo, whether from the Rocky Mountain West, or the oceans of the world will contain wild animals only. Every image on my site represents a reward for being patient and prepared, but more importantly a memory of time well spent admiring God�s creation. Watermarks will not appear on products purchased through "Fine Art America". All...