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Interesting report on shark sociality. It's long been thought that Great Whites were solitary, but it turns out they like to meet up with their muckers for a meal.
Deep blue dinner party: Great white sharks thought to be solitary hunters regularly meet groups of the same 'friends' to feast on baby seals together
What a heart-warming story - friendship and baby-seal snacks (at least they're not clubbing them).
Great white sharks regularly meet to feast on baby seals together
Researchers from Macquarie University in Australia tracked almost 300 sharks over the course of four-and-a-half years and found they kept returning to spend time with the same individuals.
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Deep blue dinner party: Great white sharks thought to be solitary hunters regularly meet groups of the same 'friends' to feast on baby seals together
- Researchers in Australia watched almost 300 sharks for four-and-a-half years
- They saw them spend time with the same specific individuals over and again
- This suggests they have social networks which regularly meet to feed together
What a heart-warming story - friendship and baby-seal snacks (at least they're not clubbing them).