Dec 04 2009
Closer than you thought
…if you weren’t paying attention, that is. This is so goofy:
Great whites near shore more often than believed
For years, humans have thought of great white sharks wandering the sea at random, only occasionally venturing close to shore.
We were wrong.
Pacific white sharks spend months near the northern and central California coast between August and February foraging among elephant seals, sea lions and other prey, according to a new study published online Tuesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. The team of 10 California-based researchers determined that these sharks probably pass close to populated beaches and have been spotted as far inland as the mouth of the San Francisco Bay, east of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Let’s think this through, nice and simple-like. Sharks eat big fish, like salmon, and they eat seals and sea lions. Where do those things live? Nice and close to shore. Why, then, would the big sharks just be out at random in the wild? Oh, that’d be because too freaking many people read Jaws and thought it was real. ::headdesk::
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Did you watch “The Whale That Ate Jaws” special that was just on Discovery or one of those channels? lol I can’t remember which channel it was, but it was a GREAT show. There was an expert that I wanted to strangle, went on and on about how amazing it was that different whale pods have learned different hunting techniques. Well, duh!, what do you think they are going to do??? Anyways, beside that guy it was a great show, I DVR’d it for my shark loving 12yo.
She knows more about them than some of the “experts”.