Nurse+Shark

// Ginglymostoma cirratum // ==== Imagine you are swimming across the sea when you come across a shark. You get really scared but don’t worry…. It’s a Nurse Shark! As long as you don’t disturb it’s “domain” you are safe. Luckily for you the Nurse Shark is not dangerous at all. People have found that this shark is peaceful and lazy. ==== ==== The nurse shark belongs to the animal kingdom. There are many characteristics that the specie has to have to be classified in the animal kingdom. You have to be multicellular which means you have more than one cell in your body. Also animals have to be eukaryotic which means they have a nucleus. Next you have to have a cell membrane and no cell wall. Lastly to be classified in the animal kingdom you must obtain nutrients from other organisms and also have the ability to move. If you have none of these characteristics you cannot be classified in the animal kingdom. Some examples of species that live in the animal kingdom include grizzly bears, red-eyed tree frogs, nurse sharks, and also bald eagles.These are not even a hand full of all the species that live in the Animal Kingdom. ==== ==== The Nurse Shark will move mostly at night and usually stays in water from shallow to ten feet deep. Its scientific name is //Ginglymostoma cirratum.// The Nurse Shark lives from The Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean it has been found around Rhode Island and Chesapeake Bay. Also it has a large variety of diet in the wild and in the zoo it eats invertebrates and small fish—Crabs, shrimp, squid, and sea urchins. When it is in the zoo it eats frozen fish mackerel, smelt, and herring (twice a week). Surprisingly it is not an endangered species. The Nurse Sharks average weight is 330 pounds and grows between seven to ten feet long. Lastly the nurse sharks young are born alive hatched from eggs that are retained in the mother, and it mainly moves at night. By: Emily, Dylan, and Nick Pd: 8    ====