Why go to all the trouble of chasing down schools of tasty fish when fishermen have conveniently gathered them up inside one location? This bold shark decides to help itself to a a stolen snack, sucked right out of a fisherman’s net.
Mark Erdmann of Conservation International discovered that whale sharks in Indonesia’s Cendrawasih Bay have taken to swimming about the fishermen’s lift nets and have figured out how to suck the silverside baitfish right out of the holes. The fishermen don’t typically kill the sharks, deeming them to be good luck, but they are looking to design new nets that the sharks can’t use as an all-you-can-eat buffet.
via Watch a clever shark suck heaps of fish right out of a fisherman’s net.
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