Bull shark kills own kind off Queensland

A filmmaker has captured footage of a bull shark killing one of its own kind off Cape York in Queensland.

Toby Bosschieter, a presenter on Andrew Ettingshausen’s Escape with ET television show, was on an 1800km cruise around Cape York in a 4.8m tinnie when he filmed the incident in January.

He posted the footage to his YouTube channel last week.

The bull sharks were drawn to the tinnie by the thrashing fish that Mr Bosschieter, his brother and another friend were catching.

“One of the sharks started cruising in from a couple of hundred metres away … at its height there were around eight bull sharks,” Mr Bosschieter told ninemsn.

The brothers attached a fish to a rope and threw it towards the sharks, prompting some to leap from the water.

One shark took the fish, but the feeder quickly became fodder for a larger cousin.

“We felt this kind of tug, tug on the line. One of the sharks has got a hold of the fish and doesn’t want to let it go, but another shark is trying to eat [the first shark],” Mr Bosschieter said.

“Bull sharks, tiger sharks, hammerheads and bronze whalers, they will all have a go at each other if they get the opportunity.”

Mr Bosschieter took the boat to shallow water and filmed the larger shark feeding on its victim.

After the large shark had left the area, the men retrieved the victim’s remains, which are seen as still photographs at the end of the footage.

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