For an animal that can never stop swimming (since that's how they get oxygen), the surfing action gives them some much-needed rest. Fakarava is a famous dive site and home to 500 gray reef sharks.

Larry Garfield of Fontana takes a look at a grey reef shark at the Aquarium of the Pacific. The Aquarium is introducing the sharks at the Molina Animal Care Center on Thursday, November 15, 2018.

Reef sharks include grey reef, blacktip reef, whitetip reef, nurse and Caribbean reef sharks. "Keeping shark populations healthy, or rebuilding them, is important for maintaining their roles for ...

If the grey reef shark, once believed to require constant motion to breathe, can switch its breathing mode and rest, there is undoubtedly more to uncover about other ram-ventilation sharks.

Shark behavioral ecologist Johann Mourier discovered this in 2014, when he decided to enter the waters of Fakarava. He found himself in the middle of the highest density of gray reef sharks that ...

One shark spent 97 percent of its time away from the reef. Every one of the six satellite-tagged sharks left the original 2001 boundaries of the refuge, showing that it was originally too small to ...

Critter of the Week » Meet mano the Grey Reef Shark Sunday, August 16, 2020 12:05 am Terry Lilley / Special to The Garden Island The gray reef shark, or mano, must continually move or it will drown.

The whitetip reef shark caught the prey and ate it, while the grey sharks got nothing (13 percent of hunts) The whitetip shark disturbed another fish it did not target, which was consumed by a ...

The whitetip reef shark caught the prey and ate it, while the grey sharks got nothing (13 percent of hunts) The whitetip shark disturbed another fish it did not target, which was consumed by a ...