Tiger Shark
· Tiger Shark Habitat
· Tiger Shark Food
· Tiger Shark Behaviour
· Conservation Status
· Tiger Shark Facts

Tiger Shark Food

The tiger shark will normally have a diet consisting of medium-sized sea living animals. If that seems as a pretty wide term it simply is so because it is wide, the tiger shark is known for eating more or less anything it can get its mouth around. A normal diet consist of crabs, shellfish, lobsters, squid, bony fish, small sharks, skates, porpoises, turtles, marine birds and mammals. Might be difficult to imagine that there is something else for it to eat, but there is.

Tiger Shark food – Spicing it up

A little now and then the tiger shark enjoys spicing up its diet in a way few people ever would. Poisonous fish and venomous jellyfish is a suited treat for this predator. And if that was not enough, a wide variety of stingrays and sea snakes will also be devoured by this ferocious sea beast. 

Tiger Shark food – People

Although the tiger shark is widely known to attack humans, it is the second on the list of shark attacks around the world, it seldom is to eat. Humans does not taste particularly well and after have taken a bite the shark generally hurries off, away from the horrible taste, but then it is generally too late. It is human’s movement in the water that triggers the predatory nature of the tiger shark, whatever it is it has to be hunted and killed.

Tiger Shark food – Trashcan of the ocean

One might think that it now is enough, what else can the tiger shark possibly eat? Well, truth be told there is not very much else which naturally would be found in the ocean left, but there is still a whole lot of the unnatural things that the tiger shark eats. More or less anything dropped into the ocean can become a tiger sharks dinner including plastic bags of garbage, live cattle, tires and number plates. Because of this the tiger shark also is known as the trashcan of the ocean.