A medium - sized shark, the Black-tip Reef Sharks is around 1.5 m long.
Like its cousins the White-tip Reef Shark, the Black-tip Reef Shark likes warm, shallow water.
Black -tip Reef Sharks have black marks on the tips of all their fins.
Black-tips are sometimes known as ' Black Sharks '.
The Black-tip Reef Sharks has long, slender teeth ideally suited to snapping up its main prey - fish that live around coral reefs.
Scuba divers often encounter Black-tip Reef Sharks, but they're rarely aggressive - although they have been known to bite people's legs and feet.
Another shark, the Spinner Sharks, is also known as the Black-tip Shark. Its completely different species from the Black-tip Reef Shark, and grows to about 2 m long.
The Black -tip or Spinner Sharks Also has black tips on all its fins.
Spinner Sharks get their name because they sometimes leap out of the water and spin around in the air.
" Since the Suez Canal was built, Black-tip Reef Sharks have swum through it from the Red Sea , and now live in the Mediterranean Sea too".
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