Mother Sharks Return 'Home' To Give Birth
8 Dec 2013
Lemon sharks, shown here swimming at Tiger Beach in the Bahamas, return to their birthplace years later in order to give birth to young of their own.
An intriguing behavior found in mother sharks has been discovered as a result of a two-decade long study in Bimini, a chain of islands in the westernmost district of the Bahamas.
The study that began in 1995 shows that female lemon sharks born 15 years ago at this location came back 15 years later to give birth to their own young ones. This is the behavior noticed for the first time in sharks.