What is one of the leopard sharks favourite foods?
Leopard sharks feed primarily on benthic invertebrates and small fish. Their diet includes invertebrates such as crabs, shrimp, octopi, fat innkeeper worms (Urechis caupo), clam siphons, and fish such as midshipmen, sanddabs, shiner perch, bat rays, smoothhounds, and a variety of fish eggs. Leopard sharks have been known to mutilate their prey, taking only parts of the animals they ingest, leaving the rest. For example, a number of clam siphons have been found in multiple specimens of leopard shark. However, a body of a consumed clam has not been reported to be found.
