A recent study by researchers at California State University in Long Beach suggests close encounters between sharks and humans are more frequent than people realize and that the two apex predators can peacefully coexist. 🦈 We're just old chums.
onto the beach in Panama City, Fla. And, in March, a juvenile Great White shark was caught by fishermen shore fishing in Orange Beach.
The university’s Shark Lab was founded in 1966 to study the sensory biology and behavior of sharks. Today, the lab studies the physiological and behavioral ecology of marine animals, emphasizing the effect of human activity on the ocean. In the more than 700 hours of footage amassed, researchers found where the sharks most often grouped together, they swam near humans 97% of the days surveyed and often within 50 yards of wave breaks, near surfers and stand-up paddleboarders -- with the humans largely unaware. There wasn’t a single report of a shark bite in any of those locations.
Chris Lowe has been the director of the Shark Lab since 1998. Lowe says researchers expected to find that humans and sharks can coexist peacefully, but were surprised at how often those encounters occurred, saying “we never expected to see so many encounters every day with no incidents” of shark bites.
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