Great white sharks were previously thought to be individualistic hunters, but Yannis Papastamatiou of FIU has discovered that they occasionally interact with each other while hunting. Papastamatiou used electronic tags to see when the sharks were near each other.

“We also found that individual sharks behaved quite differently from one another. Two of the tagged sharks were particularly social and associated with 12 and 16 other individuals, while two others appeared much less social, only crossing paths with only four and six other sharks respectively,” said Papastamatiou.

• Yannis Papastamatiou