The SharkFest episode delves into the diets of the famed aerial-hunting great white sharks of South Africa's Mossel Bay — and seals are barely on the menu.
Great white sharks off the coast of South Africa are feasting on other sharks — with these fish making up a larger proportion of their diet than seals, researchers have discovered. The great whites in Mossel Bay, known for their aerial attacks on prey and deadly clashes with orcas, appear to be hunting at the mouths of rivers, where smaller sharks congregate to breed.
So what are they eating the rest of the time?"Our hunch is that they are spending more time hunting other sharks than seals," Lacey Williams, head field specialist at Oceans Research, said in the film. They realized the sharks were gathering around three river mouths where lots of other, smaller shark species live, breed and feed, so the researchers deployed underwater cameras to see what was happening beneath the surface.
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