Two nurse sharks at the University of Georgia aquarium on Skidaway Island have been given a more spacious home - the Atlantic Ocean. Aquarium staffers released the two sharks off Ossabaw Island yesterday at an artificial reef after attempts to find them a home at the Charleston and Georgia aquariums failed.
The nurse sharks had outgrown their tank. One was named Hoover for the suctioning noise he made while he ate. He was in captivity for nine years. The other, a newer one, was called his girlfriend.
Nurse sharks can be found in shallow coastal waters of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific. Scientists say they rarely bite humans.
(Associated Press)
The nurse sharks had outgrown their tank. One was named Hoover for the suctioning noise he made while he ate. He was in captivity for nine years. The other, a newer one, was called his girlfriend.
Nurse sharks can be found in shallow coastal waters of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific. Scientists say they rarely bite humans.
(Associated Press)
