Hit and Run Attacks

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Understanding Hit and Run Attacks

The hit and run strategy is adopted by sharks as one of the most common forms of attacking its victim. These attacks usually take place at beaches in the surfing zone. Easily surfers are the line of attack and often easy targets. Injuries in hit and run cases are mostly lacerations on the leg below the knee but the victim survives.

Generally the victim has no inkling of the terrifying beast around until it hits out directly. And once the predator has attack it does not return after causing a single bite or gash wound. The victim may have been mistaken for food due to poor water visibility.

A feeding shark in this habitat makes a quick decision with rapid movements to capture its traditional food items. The breakers in conjunction with human activities on the surf attract sharks to explore often making them attack a human for its normal prey. Upon biting the shark quickly realizes it to be a foreign object and flees away after releasing the victim.

The hit and run attack is not a pre-meditated attack but something that happens in the spur of the moment. However the victim may be left with serious injuries and gashes. Some of these attacks are also related to social behaviours not related to hunt such as supremacy behaviours inherent in some animals.

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