Five baby sharks just arrived at this popular NJ attraction

Full disclosure? It is taking me a while to begin writing this because all I have going through my head is that vapid “Baby Shark” children’s song.

Focus, Jeff, focus!

So there was some joyous news shared recently. Well, if you find sharks joyous. They certainly do at SEA LIFE. That’s the aquarium at American Dream Mall in East Rutherford.

Five new shark pups were welcomed there recently, according to News12 NJ. They are baby whitespotted bamboo sharks.

It’s a kind I never heard of. How about you?

Currently classified as Near Threatened, these sharks are nocturnal bottom feeders and common from Japan and Taiwan down to Indonesia, India, and Madagascar. As adults, they can reach a size of about three and a half feet. They’re only four to five inches long at birth, however.

"All five bundles of joy are now in their new Shark & Ray Nursery, SEA LIFE New Jersey’s first habitat dedicated to young sharks and rays," SEA LIFE shared in a statement.

At night these sharks feed on small fish, snails, and crabs with teeth that are specially designed to crush shells. A freaky thing about the whitespotted bamboo shark is they can actually "walk" using their pectoral and abdominal fins, and are capable of moving backward. Being bottom feeders, I suppose this is a perfect design feature.

If you want to welcome these baby sharks SEA LIFE is open Sunday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. You’ll find them at 1 American Dream Way in East Rutherford.

But if you go, please don’t sing that song.

Opinions expressed in the post above are those of New Jersey 101.5 talk show host Jeff Deminski only.

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