| liver lipids of female carcharias taurus (spotted raggedtooth) sharks: a comparison between seasons. | female raggedtooth sharks (carcharias taurus) migrate from the waters off the eastern cape past kwazulu-natal and up to southern mozambique and then back on an annual basis. they mate off the kwazulu-natal coast, gestate the pups off mozambique, then deliver same off the eastern cape. prior to mating, they hypertrophise their livers and store large amounts of lipid, then towards the end of gestation subsist on this stored lipid as well as using it to feed their pups in utero. raggedtooth sharks ... | 2011 | 21184175 |