MIAMI (USA)- Great whites are lone predators but when their is a dead whale floating around they are much more social than thought to be. Experts studied social behaviour of white sharks around a dead whale in the cold waters of South Africa. The study is titled, White sharks (CarcharodonContinue Reading
CAPE TOWN (SOUTH AFRICA)- The council of the South-African town of Cape Town is working on implementing new shark nets in Fish Hoek. These ones are designed to keep sharks out, rather than the conventional nets that are designed to kill them. What makes Fish Hoek’s “exclusion nets” a worldContinue Reading
JENSEN BEACH (USA)- The US state of Florida is still shark attack capital of the world. On Jensen Beach in Martin County last weekend a 50-year old swimmer was bitten in the hand by a shark. The bite caused nothing more than a minor injury. The man was taken toContinue Reading
GILBERT ISLANDS (KIRIBATI)- Overfishing is not just a sign of modern times. Hundreds of years ago species vanished by overfishing. That is the important conclusion of a study of ancient Pacific weaponry. In Kiribati at least two shark species. A collection of vicious weapons made of shark teeth reveals thatContinue Reading