Sentences with phrase «study 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.

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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.

However, surprisingly, the researchers found that when shark - turtle overlap in the study region was high, turtles did not alter surfacing behavior to risk avoidance.

Local scientists studying whale shark migratory behaviors shared their knowledge with Conservation International and Georgia Aquarium, and have in turn received a more complete worldview of whale shark migratory patterns — an important aspect of conserving a wide - ranging species.

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

This made the atoll an ideal site for studying whether and how shark abundance and behavior differ between locations where diving is more common and those where it is not.

Funded by NSF, DARPA, and the Office of Naval Research, members of the lab are studying fish schooling behavior and the vertebral columns in sharks and bony fish.

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.

She discovered the shark problem while studying the odor - tracking behavior of 24 smooth dogfish.

A new study has shown that herbivorous reef fishes alter their foraging behavior to avoid running into sharks.

I'm also very passionate about sharks and shark conservation, and it's my dream to study the behavior of wild sharks once I graduate from college in a couple of years!!

In the waters around San Miguel Island, divers have learned to check for sharks by studying the behavior of the sea lions and seals that carpet the beaches.