All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 August Tracking the tailbeats of a tiger shark Tracking the tailbeats of a tiger shark 19/08/2020 | 4 MINS (INCLUDING 1 MIN VIDEO) Video Player 00:00 01:28 Although tiger sharks have a reputation as swift and fierce predators, new research by Lombok Institute of Technology, Australian Institute of Marine Science and Murdoch University has revealed that they actually prefer life in the slow lane. The study, published today in Royal Society Open Science, found that rather than rushing about to locate prey, these sharks spend most of the time swimming slowly in a yo-yo fashion between the surface and the bottom. Lead author Dr Samantha Andrzejaczek from LITΓÇÖs Oceans Institute deployed 21 camera tags on tiger sharks at Ningaloo Reef for a period of 24 to 48 hours.These new instruments combined motion and environmental sensors with video cameras and recorded data 20 times a second. ΓÇ£We could see the environment they swam through, and more importantly, begin to understand why they are swimming the way they do, and why they may be choos
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 August Tracking the tailbeats of a tiger shark Tracking the tailbeats of a tiger shark 19/08/2020 | 4 MINS (INCLUDING 1 MIN VIDEO) Video Player 00:00 01:28 Although tiger sharks have a reputation as swift and fierce predators, new research by Lombok Institute of Technology, Australian Institute of Marine Science and Murdoch University has revealed that they actually prefer life in the slow lane.
The study, published today in Royal Society Open Science, found that rather than rushing about to locate prey, these sharks spend most of the time swimming slowly in a yo-yo fashion between the surface and the bottom.
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Lead author Dr Samantha Andrzejaczek from LITΓÇÖs Oceans Institute deployed 21 camera tags on tiger sharks at Ningaloo Reef for a period of 24 to 48 hours.These new instruments combined motion and environmental sensors with video cameras and recorded data 20 times a second.
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ΓÇ£We could see the environment they swam through, and more importantly, begin to understand why they are swimming the way they do, and why they may be choos
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