How do Blue Sharks Reproduce?
The mating ritual for blue sharks is very interesting. Some watching it may consider the male to be extremely aggressive. He will be biting hard on the female but it doesn’t hurt her. The skin of females is three times thicker than the male. The biting is done to allow the mating to be completed. It is a type of grip so the two don’t separate before the sperm has been placed inside of the female. A litter of blue shark pups can be from 25 to more than 100. They grow from eggs that hatch inside of the body of the female. They are immediately left to take care of themselves once they are in the water and out of their mother’s body. The Future of the Blue Shark Humans are to blame for the significant drop in the number of blue sharks out there. Millions of them are hunted each year. They are killed to use their body for various types of products. The skin of the blue shark is dried out to make leather out of. The liver is used to remove oil from. If such high numbers of them continue to b
