10 Dec Quantifying Habitat Selection and Variability in Habitat Suitability for Juvenile White Sharks

The white shark is a complex apex predator. Scientists recently published research on quantifying movements and understanding juvenile white shark distribution. As I read through the paper, it seemed to me that juvenile white sharks were a lot like teenagers who dwell in the basement hiding from their bullies. Wildlife Computers SPOT tags were used on all (18) the sharks in the study with a subset of them receiving Wildlife Computers pop-up tags. Researchers found that warm temperate water temperatures, shallow depths and short distance to shore were all found to be important components of preferred juvenile white shark habitat.

Quantifying habitat selection and variability in habitat suitability for juvenile white sharks