Scientific name: Pastinachus sephen
Size: Up to 9.8 feet long and 5.9 feet wide
Color: Gray or brown
Distinguishing feature: The end of his tail looks like a cow's tail
Where did we see it: Maldives, Raja Ampat
Scientific name: Pastinachus sephen
Size: Up to 9.8 feet long and 5.9 feet wide
Color: Gray or brown
Distinguishing feature: The end of his tail looks like a cow's tail
Where did we see it: Maldives, Raja Ampat
This species has a spine near its tail that is particularly dangerous.
Cowtail stingray is a solitary animal, but sharks loves to eat them (especially the hammerhead), as the bottlenose dolphin Tursiop.
The tiger shark has slender marks similars to the lines of tigers, hence its name.
When it is juvenile, these marks are round and not vertical. They change when it grows.
Mammals have a horizontal tail.
Fishes have a vertical fin.
Some sharks can stay motionless on the sand (white tips reef sharks, nurse sharks, etc.).
These sharks don't have to swim to bring oxygen to their gills like other sharks (grey, hammerheads tc.)