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The typical pectoral fins are unique features of trawler-threatened angel sharks
with a close-up constellation all of a sudden detecting the grouper gang behind the next reef corner and finding themselves opposite the pack with their big watching eyes start cursing like hell ...
In autumn and in the latest months of winter another impressive spectacle occurs especially in the scenery of the rocky reefs . Almost , due to overfishing , it would not have been possible to observe it anymore . Who would have thought that the sluggish and harmless angel sharks ( Squatina squatina ) are threatened ? They are on of the list of most endangered shark species in the world . In winter , they frolic among the boulders . It is the time when the smaller males start following the larger females who are ready to mate . By this you see male angel sharks swimming around quite often . Regularly , the females are hiding between large blocks or well camouflaged , sometimes half of the body covered by sand , on the seabed in front of the rocks . At first glance one could almost think that it was a ray species ; but the animal is a shark with no doubt .
The Angelshark-Project ( https :// angelsharkproject . com ) was founded by the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig ( Bonn ) and the Zoological Society of London . Eva Meyer , who works for the organisation claims : „ It ‘ s sad that so few
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