We’ve never seen this kind of behavior before on Cape Cod.” They weren’t getting into it with each other, which is really surprising. “I’m honestly completely floored by it,” Winton said. Some of the fascinating video during the special included a shark attacking a seal in the surf zone, and then the three sharks feeding together.
“If we find patterns in behavior, then we have an ability to predict or forecast where these animals are likely to be relative to human activities.” “We want to figure out when, where, and how do white sharks naturally attack and kill their prey, the seals,” Skomal said. The researchers want to find patterns that will lead to predictive behavior, like a weather report for shark activity. The scientists are studying where sharks are hunting for seals, how they’re hunting, and how that relates to the environment. “Which is absolutely incredible,” Winton said.Ĭape Cod great white shark researchers looking at using drones to spot sharks off beaches The team of researchers, which includes Winton and Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries marine biologist Greg Skomal, now estimate that 800 to 900 individual sharks have visited the Cape’s waters in the recent 5-year period. “It’s one of the most mysterious populations of white sharks on the planet.” “There was never a population estimate for white sharks in the Northwest Atlantic,” Atlantic White Shark Conservancy staff scientist Megan Winton said during the special. The Cape shark researchers in the show also revealed how many sharks have visited the region in a recent 5-year period, which is much higher than expected. The documentary Return of the White Shark includes “really rare footage” of three great whites feasting on a seal, and an apex predator attacking a seal in the surf zone. Hundreds of great white sharks hunting seals close to shore along Cape Cod, and how local researchers are hoping to predict shark behavior, is the focus of a new National Geographic special for Sharkfest next week.
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