# @animalplanet on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BODBtxeAmC0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/14053010-animalplanet-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/26ee4e796e.jpg
- **Posted:** 2016-12-15T18:08:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Animal Planet (@AnimalPlanet) — https://gondola.cc/AnimalPlanet

## Caption

Sharks play an important role in the ecosystem. GlobalFinPrint's co-lead scientist, Dr. Michael Heithaus, who is also the Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences & Education at fiuinstagram, discovered that tiger sharks affect the behavior and feeding rates of their prey, which can alter the seascape. Sharks can scare their plant-eating prey into grazing less, which helps promote the growth of healthy seagrass that provides habitat for many species and stores carbon. .
📷: cainedelacy
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#tigershark #sharksFIU #ecology #oceanhealth

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## Tags

oceanhealth, sharksfiu, ecology, tigershark

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