This article is so cool. It talks about the Lemon Shark's breeding habits. This study has been going on for sometime now and the results have been well worth it. They mention that the female sharks return to the site on a two year rotation giving birth every other year. The fathers do not return. "By using genetic sampling, we've demonstrated unequivocally that a female that carries a litter could have up to four different sires, so ten or 12 different babies might have four different fathers, or two different fathers. So we have multiple paternity, and we suspect that this happens with a lot of other big sharks." said Gruber. This research seems so rewarding and exciting it make me want to be in the water with them. The full article is attached.
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