Wear Your Bonnet

Wear Your Bonnet

Can you imagine a shark wearing a bonnet? That would be funny looking- not to mention hard to swim with- hahaha! Today we are meeting a relative of the hammerhead- the bonnethead shark!!

Bonnethead Shark Fun Facts: 

• Bonnetheads are smaller sharks- they can grow up to 59 inches- about the length of a refrigerator.
• They call estuaries, bays and sandy bottoms their home.
• Their heads are more rounded than that of the larger hammerhead species.
• Like all other sharks they are carnivores.
• Bonnethead sharks live in small groups.
• They can live up to 15 years.

These smaller hammerheads are so cool. A recent study by scientists may suggest that they eat sea grass, which would make them omnivores! Wow! That would be super cool!