Scary Video of Shark Devouring Another Shark in an Aquarium

This is not a sequel to a shark film where it decides to eat its own specie. Nor is it a plot for an upcoming TV series. This is a real-life incident that occurred at the COEX Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea.

Yes, the world seems to have become a little bit more brutal than the normal dog-eat-dog scenario when a sand shark decided to eat a smaller banded houndshark.

The female sand tiger shark chomped down on her rival for a total 21 hours after they got into a ‘turf’ war inside the huge tank that served as their home.

A female shark devours on another shark in the COEX Aquarium.

The eight year old sand shark, measuring 7.2 feet long, attacked and devoured on the five-year old, 3.2 feet, smaller banded houndshark after their turf fight. “Sharks have their own territory. However, sometimes when they bump against each other, they bite out of astonishment,” COEX aquarium PR manager Oh Tae-youp said.

The tail of the smaller shark can be seen hanging from the mouth of the sand shark.

The following day, visitors of the COEX Aquarium watched in shock as they saw the tiger shark swimming around with a tail hanging at the end of its mouth. It showed a child watching the sand shark swim across the aquarium with the tail of the prey hanging loosely in her mouth.

Experts were saying that the tail of the eaten banded shark will remain for another four to five days as the tiger shark won’t be able to digest the prey. It will just regurgitate the devoured male after a week or so.

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In the wild, sand tiger sharks are known to feast on their weaker brothers and sisters even while inside their mother’s womb. They live up to about 15 years and weigh as much as 350 pounds and grow to 10.5 feet long. We can only hope that this doesn’t happen again at COEX Aquarium as it will not possibly lose its sea creatures but customers, too.