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.
|