B is for Brown Banded Bamboo Shark

The Baby Brown Banded Bamboo Shark likes stripes.

Stripes, like those of the poisonous sea snake, fool potential predators (the dumb ones) and protect this baby from being eaten.

When the Brown Banded Bamboo Shark grows out of his juvenile stripes, he becomes a mature brown.

Unfortunately, most humans are not fooled by the stripes and these little guys are commonly eaten in the islands of The Coral Triangle.

Boding = Tagbanua/Tagalog name for Shark