Great white sharks occasionally hunt in pairs - new research sheds light on social behavior of these mysterious predators
- Written by Yannis Papastamatiou, Professor of Biological Sciences, Florida International University
Great white sharks are not normally thought of as social creatures.Yannis Papastamatiou, CC BY-NDSitting anchored to the rocky reef 70 feet (21 meters) below the surface of the ocean, hundreds of scalloped hammerhead sharks swam above me in unison, moving as if one. When most people think of sharks, they don’t think of them as social...