{"id":609,"date":"2009-11-08T05:26:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=609"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:26:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:26:22","slug":"the-secret-lives-and-loves-of-great-white-sharks-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-secret-lives-and-loves-of-great-white-sharks-80beats.php","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Lives and Loves of Great White Sharks | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"great-white-shark-web\"Great white sharks, much like humans, tend to stick to familiar turf, according to new research. Also like a lot of people, they like to hang out along the coastal waters of California. <\/span>Sharks tagged with acoustic devices often spent up to 107 days at four key sites along the central and northern California coast where seals and sea lions are abundant: Southeast Farallon Island, Tomales Point, Año Nuevo Island and Point Reyes [LiveScience<\/em><\/a>]. A few of the fearsome predators were tracked as far inland as the Golden Gate Bridge, apparently in search of snacks, say the researchers. The study, <\/span><\/span>the largest and most detailed study of North American great white sharks<\/a>,<\/span><\/span> provides evidence contrary to the popular notion of great white sharks swimming aimlessly in the ocean<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>

The sharks under study divided most of their time between three locations: Northern California, Hawaii, and an area that the researchers called the white shark café, a spot in the open ocean about halfway between the Baja Peninsula and the Hawaiian Islands. Exactly what goes on at the café is still unknown–although researchers suspect it may be a hot spot for mating. Lead researcher Salvador Jorgensen explains that male white sharks “converge in a very specific area of the cafe,” Jorgensen said, while female sharks move in and out of the area. “It adds a little more evidence to the argument that this could be an important reproductive area” [Washington Post<\/em><\/a>].
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The scientists tracked the snaggly toothed predators between 2000 and 2008 from the Bay Area to San Diego, Hawaii and back as the sharks followed a route that was carried out with surprising precision and under a strict time frame [San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/em>]. These great whites have been isolated <\/span><\/span>from other great white sharks near Australia and South Africa<\/span><\/span> for so long that they are now genetically distinct. The study<\/a> was published in the journal <\/span><\/span>Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

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