Great white sharks, it turns out, are calculating hunters. University of Miami researchers have discovered that they use strategy and don’t engage in random attacks. Staying just out of sight, they stalk their victims (seals, for example – we’re not talking Jaws, here), focusing on the most vulnerable prey and waiting until they’re alone before striking from below.
The researchers also found that individual great whites have a “base of operations” from which they hunt – information that could be useful in avoiding shark attacks on humans.
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