| When sharks just
open wide and say yum
Rather than living
on the knife-edge of starvation, basking sharks may require less food
than scientists had calculated.
References:
Sims, D.W. 1999.
Threshold foraging behaviour of basking sharks on zooplankton: Life on
an energetic knife-edge? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
B 266(July 22):1437.
Further Readings:
Sims, D.W., and
V.A. Quayle. 1998. Selective foraging behaviour of basking sharks on
zooplankton in a small-scale front. Nature 393:460.
Further
information can be found at http://www.mbl.edu/html/MISC/basking.html.
Sources:
David W. Sims
University of Aberdeen
Department of Zoology
Tillydrone Avenue
Aberdeen AB24 2TZ
United Kingdom
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 8, August 21, 1999, p. 123. Copyright © 1999,
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