A nurse shark videographer – an actual wild shark with an enclosed Gopro – captured his video a great white shark photobombing’s rare “shark eyes view” footage.
While it is common for scientists to use GPS tag to document wildlife movement, it is understood how animals interact with the environment improves understanding, scientists in Florida carried forward this one step. Florida Atlantic University Studying sharks with a novel idea, filming animal movements using fin-mounted cameras. The results are the first person view of a shark of wildlife behavior, which gives a stunning look in the lives of these attractive creatures.
One in YouTube video Released by the university, a professor of Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Dr. Stephen Kaziyura said, “One of the things we have started recently is instructing these sharks with these camera tags, so that we can get a shark-i-verse, as they are floating around their daily activities.”
In addition to allowing researchers to track animals, these camera tag scientists enable scientists to inspect animal behavior, when not affected by the presence of humans, such as a dive team to film them.
FAU’s novel approach led a rare footage when a nurse shark equipped with a camera tag captured the scene of a underwater encounter with a great white shark.
The nurse shark weighs between 7.5 to 9.8 feet (2.3 to three meters) long and weighs between 200 to 330 pounds (91–150 kg). While the great white sharks are sexually dull related to their size, the large female can be longer up to 16 feet (4.9 m) and weigh as 2,450 pounds (1,111 kg). The new video footage shows how these two shark species interact, especially when nurse sharks face a very large animal.
Students of marine science and oceanography in FAU are studying shark behavior and kinemetics using data from camera tags, genevieve sylvester.
“The study of how the kinematics originally moves.
Fit on a boyant syntactic foam with a gopro made with a gopro using a light custom rig, the cylquestle attaches its camera tag for shark on the south floorida coast with a temporary clamp. The tag is designed to fall naturally; Waves and bounce foams bring it back to the edge, where the team can recover the device and its data.
While a popular dive site, Donny Boy Slip Reef was installed about a mile offshore from Botton Beach Inlet, the team fitted its device to the nurse shark, never expected to capture a literal shark photobomb in action.
“The good thing is that these two sharks interacted for about four minutes. It was not just one closed, they passed each other around this artificial rock several times. So I think it is probably one of the few times where a shark has captured a photo of another shark,” says Dr. Kaziura.
Scientist division Praised Sylvester’s novel approach, “produces a generated animal-borne woodcutable cameras that help us better understand shark swimming movements and behavior in the wild. Its research will provide news insight into the role of sharks within the marine ecosystem and inform the matters with the aim of protecting the sharks for future generations.”
FAU’s environmental programs and studies are regular Posted on its siteWith state -of -the -art research in maritime protection and protection.
“Stay. Stay. There is a lot to come. Kajiura said.
Image Credit: Florida Atlantic University
