Food and Nutrition

Bull sharks are omnivores that will eat almost anything that they find in the ocean. There stomach remains have even been found to include human and hippopotamus remains. Some of the things that bull sharks eat include fish, other sharks (including sandbar sharks), rays, turtles, dolphins, mollusks, and echinoderms. It is a mainly solitary species that lives and hunts on its own, however, large populations are found in certain places in the world and the sharks occasionally hunt in pairs. When it comes to hunting they often bump their prey before they bite it, which is what has happened to a few of the experts who have gotten bitten by them during their interaction. These sharks also prefer murky water to hunt in and can become aggressive and accelerate very quickly. The bull shark may actually have been the shark responsible for a few of the shark attacks at the Jersey Shore in 1916 that inspired the movie "Jaws." In India, many people have been attacked in the Ganges River and the sharks often eat dead human corpses that the Indians ceremonially float down the river.