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Ornate Wobbegong

Orectolobus ornatus

Description:

If you were this Shark you would have a really cool, super sensitive beard or a spiky chin full of feeling. You would also have a concentration of fine hairlike extensions connected to nerves under the skin of your head, and you could sense the slightest movement. You could close your eyes and feel a bird fly overhead, showers would feel awesome especially when followed by a fan? You would have massages where they just move their hands around behind you without touching you? And you would always win blind man’s bluff. You would also have a compulsion to bite things that pass by and would not want to let them go (on some occasions a wobbegong has only let go of a diver when they left the water). And you would be very patient, a sit and wait predator that eats sit and wait predators. Guardian: Jason Allen

Habitat:

Upolu Reef, Ocean Freedom

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1 Comment

Christiane
Christiane 9 years ago

Very cool photo.. great spotting! :) Thanks for sharing..

david14
Spotted by
david14

Cairns, QLD, Australia

Spotted on May 28, 2014
Submitted on May 28, 2014

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