""I told my colleague to take the boat away to avoid disturbance and I started waiting on the surface, looking down at the sharks almost motionless on the sea floor. "I waited an hour, freezing in the water, but finally they started swimming up. It was over quickly for both males, one after the other. The first took 63 seconds, the other 47. "Then the males lost all their energy and lay immobile on the bottom while the female swam away actively.""
""The mating behaviours, including "prolonged pro-copulation positioning, male grasping of the female's fins and tail, copulatory thrusting and clasper use", were consistent with a study published earlier this month.""
A two-male, one-female mating sequence among leopard sharks was recorded off New Caledonia. An ecologist from the University of the Sunshine Coast filmed the interaction using GoPros while collaborating with Noumea's Aquarium des Lagons. The recorded copulations lasted about 63 and 47 seconds respectively. Both males became immobile on the sea floor after mating while the female swam away actively. The observed behaviours included prolonged pro-copulation positioning, male grasping of the female's fins and tail, copulatory thrusting and clasper use, matching descriptions from recent research and noted as scientifically and conservationally significant.
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