 Given the opportunity, this shark will scavenge.Adults consume relatively more bony fish and cephalopods, and fewer crustaceans, than juveniles.Known parasites of this species include the monogeneans "Hexabothrium appendiculatum" and "Leptocotyle major", the tapeworm "Acanthobothrium coronatum", the trypanosome "Trypanosoma scyllii", the isopod "Ceratothoa oxyrrhynchaena", and the copepod "Lernaeopoda galei".