{"id":46939,"date":"2020-08-14T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/these-gray-reef-sharks-are-bffs-scientists-say\/"},"modified":"2020-08-14T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T17:22:00","slug":"these-gray-reef-sharks-are-bffs-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/these-gray-reef-sharks-are-bffs-scientists-say\/","title":{"rendered":"#These gray reef sharks are BFFs, scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#These gray reef sharks are BFFs, scientists say<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 14, 2020 |<\/span> 1:22pm <\/p>\n

\n The sharks that slay together stay together.<\/p>\n

While the killer fish can rarely be called friendly, a new study has revealed that gray reef sharks, a type known to attack humans, prefer to paint the ocean red with a tight-knit crew of \u201cfriends.\u201d<\/p>\n

The many-toothed predator, which can grow up to about 8 feet long and weigh 70 pounds in some cases, can be found patrolling the coral reefs of the Pacific and Indian oceans during the day, while at night they hunt the high seas.<\/p>\n

Near Palmyra Atoll, an island wildlife refuge 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii, marine biologists with Florida International University affixed small, high-frequency sound transmitters, called \u201ctags,\u201d onto 41 gray reef sharks, and set up a network of 65 acoustic receivers on the sea floor to detect their movement over a four-year period.<\/p>\n

Unlike most sharks, which lead solitary lives, researchers discovered that these sharks swim with a lifelong posse of up to 20 pals, and rarely visit other groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t think of sharks as social<\/a> animals, but they do have social groups,\u201d FIU biologist Yannis Papastamatiou told New Scientist. However, \u201cthey purposely associate with the same individuals,\u201d he said, demonstrating they can actually tell their friends apart. How they know who\u2019s who remains a mystery to us.<\/p>\n

Whether they also prowl open waters together for a bite is also unclear, as their hunting ground is way too far for the receivers to track.<\/p>\n

Papastamatiou, whose report was published by the Royal Society on Wednesday, insisted that, despite the reef sharks\u2019 loyalty, they\u2019re actually rolling together out of convenience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are not friends in the sense of having any emotional bond with each other,\u201d he explained. Instead, scientists believe strength in numbers may give them an advantage over catching prey, though they don\u2019t app<\/a>ear to be deliberately sharing food.<\/p>\n

At the very least, it suggests a mutual respect for the \u201cfinders-keepers\u201d rule.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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