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The sandbar shiner (Notropis scepticus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Notropis. It is endemic to the Southeastern United States . It is native from the Cape Fear River drainage in North Carolina , to the Savannah River drainage in Georgia.
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge is a 115,324-acre (466.7 km 2) [1] protected area situated on the southwest side of San Antonio Bay along the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Texas. It is located in parts of Aransas, Refugio, and Calhoun Counties. It is situated on the southwest side of the San Antonio Bay, formed by the mouth of the Guadalupe ...
Cibolo Creek is a stream in South Central Texas that runs approximately 96 miles (154 km) from its source at Turkey Knob (in the Texas Hill Country) near Boerne, Texas, to its confluence with the San Antonio River in Karnes County. The creek is a tributary of the San Antonio River, at the easternmost part of its watershed.
Robert Kapas was sitting in a local mall in Atlanta wearing his homemade fish hat, when a man named Leo stopped to ask about it. After hearing the story behind the hat, Leo asked Kapas if he could ...
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The sandbar shark itself preys on fish, rays, crabs, and molluscs. [7] They have also been found to primarily consume osteichthyes, or bony fish, octopi, european squid, and cuttlefish when in areas such as the Mediterranean or the Gulf of Gabés. [8] Sandbar sharks have been described as being a top predator in their ecosystem's food chain. [9]
The name of the refuge means "woodland of the Apache" [sg] in Spanish, named for the Apache tribes that once camped in the forests along the Rio Grande. [5] Previously, the Piro people had lived in the lands around what is now the refuge until the 1600s, when they were forced to abandon their pueblos due to European diseases and attacks from the Apache tribes.
The thieves kept the shark alive and it was luckily rescued by San Antonio police officers and returned alive and well to the aquarium. [3] [4] Following the shark abduction, a public petition of more than 17,000 (61,000 as of January 2020) signatories requested the aquarium to close its touch pool containing a variety of aquatic animals. [5]