For nearly two decades, the Carbrook Golf Club near Brisbane, Australia, had the ultimate water hazard: a lake teeming with bull sharks.
It all started in 1996 when raging floods swept six young bull sharks from a nearby river into a 51-acre lake near the golf course’s 14th hole.
When the floodwaters receded, the sharks found themselves stuck, surrounded by grassy hills and curious golfers.
The sharks, according to a new study, are more than just a fluke along the fairway.
In research published last month in the journal Marine and Fisheries Science, Peter Gausmann, a shark scientist and lecturer at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, said that the cartilaginous club members of Carbrook bull sharks demonstrate that bull sharks can live indefinitely in low-salinity aquatic environments.
Persons:
Peter Gausmann
Organizations:
Marine, Fisheries Science, Ruhr University Bochum
Locations:
Brisbane, Australia, Germany