The Great White Shark’s Criminal Mind

In the next episode of Criminal Minds, we investigate a stalker who watches his prey from afar before ambushing the unsuspecting victims with ferocious and violent attacks.

Sounds like a real detective drama playing out in the Journal of Zoology in which a new study has shown that Great White Sharks do indeed stalk their prey, and do not attack randomly as previously believed.

The researchers found that spatial patterns of the sharks’ hunt at this site were strategic, and that smaller sharks had less defined search patterns and lower kill success rates than larger sharks.

This could mean that white sharks base their hunting strategy on experience, and learn to focus on locations that give them the best advantage in capturing prey. It might also suggest that larger sharks beat out the smaller sharks for choice hunting areas.

In addition to being used in law enforcement, geographic profiling has been useful in many diverse and surprising applications, including studies of the foraging behavior of bats and bumblebees, the spread of infectious diseases in Africa, and the structure of terrorist cells in the Middle East.

Article found at redorbit.com.