The black tip reef shark, or Carcharhinus melanopterus in latin, is one of the most important predators, as it helps maintain reef health. Sharks help play a very important role in the marine ecosystem. In addition to being superior in the food chain and carnivores, they help prevent diseases from spreading among fish. It is not a danger to humans. Instead, humans exploit its meat, its fins and even the oil from its liver. It is an oviparous species, as it gives birth to the small shark, together with the egg that surrounds it and it is not a mammal, like dolphins. In order to give birth, it chooses a coral reef so that the little shark has food and is not threatened by the other larger sharks. Fully developed, its body can reach 1.5 meters for this species. The overfishing of sharks, in combination with its slow reproduction, makes it one of the almost endangered species.