Male Hatchling
Name: unnamed
Species: Tigershark
Birthday: Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Owner: NelwNoll
Element: Neutral 
Tigershark eggs are abandoned by their mothers with the pups left to fend for themselves. Luckily, they hatch with a full set of teeth and sharp senses, able to track and catch small prey as soon as they emerge from the egg. They occasionally form creches in shallow lagoons with other young tigersharks where they'll band together for safety, but unlike their leocampus and tropical triak cousins, tigersharks rarely form social bonds with other animals. They hunt on their own and though they have means of communicating, largely through loud growls and roars, they generally keep to themselves once they grow large enough to fend for themselves.
Despite their name, tigersharks are not true sharks but rather curious merges of mammals and fish, similar to hippocampi and capricorns, and close relatives of tropical triaks and leocampi. Tigersharks are among the top predators of the western sea, able to catch a wide variety of prey including various fishes, mollusks, birds, mammals, and turtles. If desperate enough, tigersharks may even attack the dunkleosteus and large sea reptiles that live in the open ocean, though it is rare to see tigersharks wandering that far from shore. Like leocampi, they sport gills and breathe comfortably underwater, but despite how their forelimbs closely resemble those of land-dwelling cats, they cannot support their own body weight long outside of water. Tigersharks often hunt at night, so attacks are rare, but they're known to steal fish from nets and traps, and can be extremely dangerous if encountered while underwater.
Sprite art: Mysfytt (hatchling) | Description: PKGriffin