PERU fishing with guts to report…
Australian scientists are putting sophisticated transmitters in several copies of Sharks Tigers to study their migratory habits, as well as the threat to humans, local media reported today.
This study by the University of Queensland and organization OCEARCH collect information through satellite, acoustic, accelerometers and video cameras that will carry Sharks Tigers transmitters. These devices may seek information for a period of ten years, as the local chain ABC.
The Sharks Tigers are a predatory species is unknown if he is in danger. You can measure up to 5.5 meters long.
“We are also collected genetic information from small samples of fins and are taking blood samples to analyze their reproductive systems”Said Bonnie Holmes, Challenger to a doctorate from the University of Queensland (Australia).
Holmes told the ABC that tigers sharks are able to move huge distances, as was the case with one of these sharks who traveled 48 hours from Sydney to New Caledonia, separated by 1,970 miles of ocean.
The Sharks Tigers generally travel to Australian waters of New South Wales during the austral summer and return to Queensland for the winter, but still why what is hoped that the study was to determine if there are any particular areas of unknown mating habits including unknown.
The Tiger Sharks “are semi-solitary species, which do not add to the other to mate“Said Holmes. “Use the continental coastline as a navigation tool” and probably to capture prey, he adds.
Specialist hoped that understanding the habits of sharks and tigers reasons are close to beaches help prevent attacks on bathers and surfers, as happened today when a Japanese died in the jaws of a shark in eastern Australia.
In Australia, more than 200 people have died since 1971 because of the sharks, according to data from the Australian Taronga Conservation Society.
SOURCE: Elcomercio.pe
