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To: nickcarraway
"But Pierson said it's unlikely that this shark swam all the way to Illinois."

That certainly seems to be the case here, but it's true that bull sharks have been found as far north up the Mississippi as Cairo, Illinois, having swum up from the gulf. They've been found up to 4,000 km inland up the Amazon, and are quite tolerant of freshwater. They're not uncommon here (Louisiana) in the brackish to fresh waters of the Atchafalaya basin, and after Katrina, a number were observed in Lake Pontchartrain.

3 posted on 05/31/2010 5:53:48 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack
it's true that bull sharks have been found as far north up the Mississippi as Cairo, Illinois, having swum up from the gulf.

Oh, my. It's really only about 120 miles to the Arch from there.

5 posted on 05/31/2010 5:58:30 PM PDT by Desdemona
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To: Joe 6-pack

Just last night we watched a re-run of River Monsters and the episode was tracking Bull Sharks in the Breede River in South Africa. They had travelled many miles upstream and there were quite a few of them, one they caught to track was the biggest Bull Shark known. Interesting, not very comforting that they supposedly don’t usually attack people.


12 posted on 05/31/2010 7:33:43 PM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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