Four sharks have been sighted off the coast of Yanchep and the beaches in the vicinity remains closed (http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/whale-carcass-attracts-sharks-to-metro-beaches-20120219-1tgvn.html).
This news article prompted me to think about the age old debate about whether sharks would eat humans. The prevailing socially acceptable answer out there is that they don’t. But are we underestimating their intelligence?
As a fish keeper and a veterinarian, I’ve read about, kept and observed numerous different fish species. One thing about their feeding habits is that they can learn to eat different foods. They can learn off their own species, and they can learn off other species. They can accept all types of live feeds, chopped up fresh meats and all sorts of dried foods. They will have a go and nibble and things to see if it’s edible. They will sample and eat things that they would never see in nature (e.g. cuttlefish and octopus to freshwater tropical ornamental fishes and boiled egg yolk to baby fish). So, why would a shark differ in their culinary behaviour?
So when a shark is given the opportunity to eat a human dressed like a seal, what do you think the shark’s next move would be?
