We'll take her back to the lab where there's a pen made out of red plastic fencing in the flats behind the house. Meanwhile there's a huge ripple heading for the net. As it hits the net, it erupts into a massive splash fest. We've caught an entire school of bonefish. This little lemon is too big to stay in the cooler for very long.
Sharks are one of the few sea creatures that practice internal fertilization and bear live pups.
The lemon shark's birth process is very much like a human's, but it evolved millions of years earlier. Adult sharks come back to the lagoon every year to either mate or give birth. They carry their young for 10 to 12 months and have four to 17 pups. Doc's hypothesis is that the females alternate each year, mating one year then birthing the next. Once the pups are born, they're on their own to fend for themselves in the mangroves.