Distribution of Bull shark
The bull shark is found in warm oceans, rivers and lakes, rivers and water occasionally salt and fresh if they are deep enough. Their populations are also found in several major rivers, with more than 500 bull-sharks thought to live in the Brisbane River. A large one was caught in the canals of Scarborough, two hours north of the Gold Coast. You can live in water with a high salt content as in St. Lucia Estuary in South Africa. It is generally abundant in the warm waters and coastal estuaries of the Mozambique Channel and south, including Kwa-Zulu Natal and Mozambique.
After Hurricane Katrina, many bull sharks were sighted in Lake Pontchartrain. These sometimes ascended the Mississippi River as far upstream as Alton, Illinois. A bull shark feeding consists mainly of bony fish and sharks, including other bull sharks, but can also include turtles, birds, dolphins, terrestrial mammals, crustaceans, echinoderms and races. These have been known to use the bump and bite technique to attack their prey. Sharks are usually solitary hunters, but sometimes hunt in pairs.
Often cruise the shallow waters. Since they often dwell in shallow waters, they may be more dangerous to humans than other species of sharks, and the tiger shark, oceanic white tip shark and the great white shark, are among the four species of sharks most likely to attack humans. One or more bull sharks may have been responsible for the Jersey Shore shark attacks of the 1916, which was the inspiration for Peter Benchley Jaws news. Speculation of bull shark may be liable based on a number of attacks that occur in brackish water and freshwater, and there are some similarities between bites bulls and great white sharks.