Blacktip Reef Shark

Smooth Criminal

Diet

• They prefer small fish, but sometimes eat crustaceans, mollusks, and other invertebrates

Agility

• Swift swimmers and are capable of reaching 25 mph

• Their coloring provides camouflage from above or below (countershading)

Defense Mechanism

• While most sharks are solo hunters, blacktip reef sharks are team players and rely on one another to catch prey in packs

Superpower

• Can jump fully out of the water during feeding frenzies spinning around several times before dropping back into the sea