Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Get attacked by a shark and get written up


I found this article about a cookie-cutter shark attack on a great white shark interesting:

What bit this Great White Shark?  A cookie-cutter

But I found this linked article about a swimmer that got bit by a cookie-cutter even MORE interesting.  Especially because said biting constituted a scientifically interesting subject.

The real cookie monster

Here's the reference, grabbed from the above article:

Honebrink, Randy, Buch, Robert, Galpin, Robert, & Burgess, George H. (2011). First documented attack on a live human by a cookiecutter shark (Squaliformes, Dalatiidae: Isistius sp.) Pacific Science, 65 (3), 365-374 : 10.2984/65.3.365

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy"


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