Robotic Vehicles Offer a New Tool in Study of Shark Behavior (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Robotic Vehicles Offer a New Tool in Study of Shark Behavior

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Researchers, including lead author Greg Skomal and the REMUS SharkCam team, logged 30 interactions with 10 individual sharks. The behavior of these sharks ranged from simple approaches to bumping the vehicle and, on nine occasions, aggressive bites.

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Oceanographic Systems Lab/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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