Great white sharks exploit Sun’s glare when they attack
MAR 02, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028680
New Scientist : Great white sharks favor dawn and dusk for their attacks. Suspecting that the Sun’s low position on the horizon might be behind that preference, Charlie Huveneers of Flinders University in Australia and his colleagues conducted an experiment at sea. They lured great white sharks to their boat using fish oil and minced fish. They then tossed chunks of tuna into the water and observed how the sharks attacked their “prey” at different times of day. When they attacked at dawn and dusk, the sharks invariably approached the tuna chunks with the Sun behind them. Huveneers speculates that the sharks use the Sun’s glare to hide their attacks.
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