Sentences with phrase «shark behavior»

The lab also experiments with robotics and how to create and use technology that allows scientists to learn more about shark behavior in the wild.

The footage revealed surprising aspects of shark behavior.

Your other sharky accessories are fabulous too, of course I'm extremely passionate about sharks and shark conservation as well, and want to study shark behavior once I graduate from college in a couple of years.

The 25th annual Shark Week, which begins August 12 on Discovery, has researchers spying on shark behavior with an underwater surveillance cam and reconstructing the megalodon (a long - extinct shark species) down to the 250 six - inch - long teeth in its giant jaws.

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

Eager to understand how scuba diving activities over multiyear time scales influence shark behavior, scientists at UC Santa Barbara and Florida International University set out to find answers.

Vital scientific information about whale shark behavior, biology and ecology is being uncovered by an unlikely source — ecotourists and other citizens.

Because sound or electrical stimuli, or yellow - and - black stripes on your wetsuit, or any of the other cockamamie ideas - none of them have been shown to work reliably in deterring shark behavior.»

According to National Geographic, Bradley M. Wetherbee, who studies shark behavior and ecology at the University of Rhode Island, is conducting a Delaware - based study on what happens to sand tiger sharks when they are caught and released.

The instruments are giving scientists a «shark's eye» view of the ocean and revealing new findings about shark behavior, according to research being presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting.

You might not realize it, but this fear of sharks that stems from our misinformed notions of shark behaviors and habits has actually lead to a drastic drop in shark populations over the past few decades.

«After reviewing 80 hours of underwater footage taken from video surveys conducted in 2015 — 14 years after Palmyra was established as a wildlife refuge and scientific diving activities began — we found that shark abundance and shark behavior were the same at sites with and without a long history of scuba diving,» said co-author Jennifer Caselle, a research biologist at UCSB's Marine Science Institute.

Furthermore, the presence of tourist divers didn't correlate with the number or average depth of reef sharks recorded by telemetry, indicating that shark behavior was unaffected by the divers» presence during the study.

The team that you will be joining for this Freeport shark dive are all shark behavior and conservation specialists.