Sentences with phrase «of tiger sharks»

Alternative methods currently include dorsal fin tags of tiger sharks living off Hawaii, as well as the highly controversial culling programmes.

Fear of tiger sharks, for instance, helps protect seagrass from being over-grazed, which in turns pulls CO2 out of the atmosphere and provides a habitat for fish and shellfish

The research team used long - term satellite tagging data from large tiger sharks and adult female loggerhead sea turtles, common prey of tiger sharks, to examine their movement patterns and evaluate if turtles modify their behaviors to reduce their chances of a shark attack when turtle and shark home ranges overlapped.

They researchers found surfacing of both tiger sharks and green turtles was highest where they overlapped in core home range, closest to the island, and surfacing also increased for both animals with increasing proximity to the shoreline.

«In addition to the unpredictability of a shark attack over such a large area, it is possible that fishing of tiger sharks has reduced their populations to levels that no longer pose a significant threat to turtles, with other factors becoming more important such as the need to avoid boat strikes»

In 1992, the Saatchi Gallery displayed the ground breaking show Young British Artists in which Hirst exhibited Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991, consisting of a tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde.

Not exact matches

Running through the chaos of a sinking ship; watching a tiger wrestle a shark; exploring a mysterious island; devising ways to catch turtles and gather fresh water» these are but some of the novel's small pleasures.

Rather than a «Tiger, tiger, burning bright / In the forests of the night,» Faulkner offers great sharks burning ghostly in the depths of the sea, flamboyant patterns of coral, tropical fish in patterned schools that are so glaringly colorful as to silence a man.

An international team that includes University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science researchers found behavioral evidence that tiger sharks prefer to opportunistically scavenge on dead or weakened green turtles rather than actively hunting healthy individuals despite more opportunities to do so.

In theory, loggerhead turtles should reduce their exposure at the surface in regions of high habitat overlap with tiger sharks.

He said it's what certain species of sharks do, especially bull and tiger sharks.

During some years, up to as many as 12,000 green sea turtles aggregate around Raine Island to lay eggs on the beach, which offers scientists a natural laboratory to compare the movements and behaviours of the turtles and tiger sharks during a time when sea turtle concentrations are higher than average.

The study, conducted off the coast of Australia during the turtle nesting season, also found the behavior of healthy green turtles suggests that they do not perceive tiger sharks as a major threat during nesting season.

The study revealed that tiger sharks undergo seasonal movements to take advantage of turtles nesting off the Carolinas during the summer.

Photos from Australia's controversial shark extermination show that released tiger sharks are also dying — both from the stress of capture and improper handling

The findings, published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, could help researchers in future efforts to improve the life cycle of sand tiger sharks.

The study indicates the Eocene Arctic sand tiger shark, a member of the lamniform group of sharks that includes today's great white, thresher and mako sharks, was thriving in the brackish water of the western Arctic Ocean back then.

«While our study suggests that sand tigers may be more social than previously thought, confirming this requires more detailed observations of individual shark behavior.

Researchers gathered this data by using a novel tagging procedure to collect tens of thousands of interactions between 300 or so tagged sand tiger sharks along the Eastern Seaboard.

In addition to encountering over 50 percent of all the other tagged sand tiger sharks on the East Coast, the sand tigers came in contact with Atlantic sturgeons, white sharks, sand bar and spiny dogfish sharks, and even southern species like the lemon shark and bull shark.

The range of lemon and tiger sharks was about 100 times greater, but only the lemon sharks showed increased activity in spots where groupers were actively spawning.

To quantify spatio - temporal patterns of reef use for three species of shark, the authors of this study analyzed data from acoustic transmitters placed on 18 sharks — 6 lemon sharks, 10 tiger sharks, and 2 Caribbean reef sharks — that were tracked with acoustic receivers covering an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers near the island of St. Thomas.

Three species of shark, tiger, lemon and Caribbean reef, all use deeper coral reefs in the Virgin Islands, but only lemon shark presence was associated with seasonal grouper spawning aggregations, according to a study published May 4, 2016 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Alexandria Pickard from Nova Southeastern University, Florida, Bradley Wetherbee of the University of Rhode Island and colleagues.

For example, the scientists think the sharks traveled in their mixed - species groups for most of the day for protection against tiger sharks, which are much larger and often prey on their smaller peers (much as herding animals like gazelles stay together for protection against hungry lions).

The footage from 14 tiger sharks, six Galapagos sharks, five sandbar sharks, five bluntnose sixgill sharks and a prickly shark is the first to be taken of sharks, by sharks in their natural environment.

For instance, he and other scientists have been probing the behavior of Hawaii's tiger sharks for roughly 20 years.

When she runs afoul of an overly inquisitive tiger shark, Zombie sinks to the level of a third - rate Jaws rip - off (by 1979, the Italian film industry was no stranger to these).

There's a secret in Darwin, Australia: unlike the rest of the country where tiger sharks are feared and hunted to protect beach goers and surfers, in Darwin tiger sharks are respected and are slowly becoming a source of jobs for the region.

Then, one fateful Halloween morning, the wave - riding teen was taking part in a national surf competition when a 14 - foot - long tiger shark emerged from the depths and changed her life in the blink of an eye.

they don't even look like sharks.The tiger shark shown at the beginning of the movie isn't at all like a tiger shark!

«Life of Pi» Synopsis: After a harrowing shipwreck, young Pi Patel finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26 - foot lifeboat in shark - infested waters with a 450 - pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

Hamilton of course was the subject of the 2011 movie Soul Surfer, which chronicled her life after losing her arm at age 13 when she was a attacked by a 15 - foot tiger shark (AnnaSophia Robb played her).

While my writing them here won't do them justice, quips like «Slice me a off a piece of pie and serve it up hot, I'm next in line» dubbed over a segment of lions mating and «When a shark appears, sea lions jump ashore — luckily there aren't any tigers waiting for them, otherwise they wouldn't know what the fuck to do» voiced while watching a pack of sea lions, should give you an idea as to how idiotic these guys are.

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Dragons, sharks, Manchurian tigers, crocodiles, and other big flesh eaters are the focus of this multifaceted examination of, as well as a moving meditation on, the earth's changing communities.

More than 200 marine species live in and around the reef, including leatherback sea turtles, moray eels, tiger and bull sharks, unique orange grouper, bat rays and galaxies of colorful fish.

In addition to mantas, these remote islands also attract passing pelagics, including large pods of dolphin, schools of jacks and yellowfin tuna and a variety of whales that includes humpbacks, false killers and pilot whales, plus a showcase of sharks that includes white tips, silver tips, silkies, hammerheads, Galapagos, threshers, and occasionally tigers.

Channels such as Naiqoro Passage hold sharks and swirling schools of tuna, giant trevally, mahi - mahi and snapper, while sites on the open - water side of the reef provide additional chances for sightings of passing pelagics, including humpback whales, tiger sharks, whale sharks, billfish and tuna.

These efforts, despite damaging the shark population, were shown to be ineffective in decreasing the number of interactions between humans and tiger sharks.

[46][47] At «Tiger Beach» off Grand Bahama, uncaged diving with - and even the handling of - female tiger sharks has become a routine occurrence.

We also highly recommend that any diver's trip to Fiji should include a stay near Pacific Harbour to join the amazing shark feed dive at Shark Reef, where you have a very real chance of once - in - a-lifetime encounters with bull sharks and tiger shshark feed dive at Shark Reef, where you have a very real chance of once - in - a-lifetime encounters with bull sharks and tiger shShark Reef, where you have a very real chance of once - in - a-lifetime encounters with bull sharks and tiger sharks.

Tubbataha is a protected marine sanctuary and here you can find large marine species like tiger sharks, big schools of barracuda, cetaceans, trevallies and turtles.

There is always a chance to catch a glimpse of larger sharks such as hammerheads, tigers and gray reefs passing by in the distance, but far better odds of running into sea turtles or the pods of spinner dolphins that frequent calm bays.

There were a lot of eagle rays seen swooping along the reef and even a tiger shark was spotted in the open ocean.

While a 14 - foot tiger shark may have taken her left arm during a tragic attack in 2003, Hamilton triumphed, going on to become a writer, philanthropist, activist and, most recently, the third - place winner of CBS» 25th season of «The Amazing Race» with her husband, Adam Dirks.

Join us this year on board any of our hand selected shark diving vessels to meet huge great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) at the volcanic island of Isla Guadalupe, or curious tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) at Tiger Beach in the Bahamas, or bountiful bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) in waters off Pacific Harbour, Fiji.

Underwater Shark Photos Exciting underwater photos of great white sharks, hammerhead and tiger sharks, whale sharks, blue sharks and many others.

Silvertips, grey reef, whitetip reef, blacktip reef, sicklefin lemons, and tawny nurse sharks as well as large bull and occasional tiger sharks come to feed on the fish bait provided at a depth of 25 to 30m on the reef ledge while divers observe from a safe distance.

In Beqa Lagoon, Aqua - Trek Beqa manage The Bistro, which attracts a wide variety of sharks, Beqa Adventure Divers have «The Arena» which attracts lots of bull sharks, among others, and Beqa Lagoon Resort has established one called «The Cathedral» which tiger sharks visit regularly.

He's the Steven Spielberg of underwater cinema who catches tigers by their tails — tiger sharks that is.