How To Become Friends With a Shark

As any ego - respecting fan of animate being attacks knows , next week is Discovery Channel ’s SHARK WEEK ( say it in caps ) . So we ’ve got breaking news from the world of shark social networking : Two show means to make champion with sharks .

Discovery ’s Jennifer Viegas reports in her blog Born Animal that a group of researchers from Leeds studied the friending practices of 42 jejune lemon sharks , 2 - 3 years old , off the coast of the Bahamas . fundamentally these shark are the equivalent weight of human teens and early - twenty , premier age for Facebookery . So what does it take to have a giant friend list among lemon shark ?

First of all , lemon sharks run to like other lemon yellow sharks , though they will occasionally hang out with a few select other mintage . So if you want more lemon shark friends , be sure to send a note with your friend request explicate how close you are to being a lemon shark .

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And second of all , most gamboge shark favor friends who are close to them in size .

Writes Viegas :

The biologists also discovered jejune shark would rather be in the company of other similarly sized Citrus limon sharks than to be alone . Perhaps mini gang help the shark with foraging , warding off predators , sell with bigger yobo of their own coinage , or with some other aspect of survival of the fittest .

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And the fact that these shark are so societal open up the doors to additional possibilities about their behavior .

“ This type of associative radiation pattern has been linked to the evolution of cooperation and may also have implications for the flow of information through a universe and societal learning , ” the researchers note , adding that the “ shark ’ relative brain mass overlap with that of mammals and birds . ”

You heard it here first . The fresh growth market for your social software system is shark . I ’m not indisputable why the scientists did n’t ask the sharks about superpokes and applications programme for comparing preferred human limbs to masticate on .

Lesdilley