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A nurse shark resting on the seabed with visible barbels beside a suction feeding vortex, a spotted pup, and a coral reef crevice on a light gray background.

Suction Feeders That Sleep in Piles — How Well Do You Know Nurse Sharks?

Sharks

Difficulty

Hard

Questions

30

Volts

3/q

They rest in piles by day, hunt by suction at night, and come back to the same mating spot year after year. Nurse sharks are sedentary carpet sharks with hinged mouths and litters fathered by multiple males. This quiz goes beyond the reef.

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