Watch: Dolphins Circle Great White in Rare And "Baffling" Video
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Dolphins circled a lone great white shark in footage captured on a drone over Plettenberg Bay waters.

 

Plettenberg Bay, South Africa (14 October 2022) – In what is being called rare and baffling footage, a great white shark was caught swimming off the coast of Plettenberg Bay by a pod of dolphins that circled the apex predator.

The drone footage, uploaded to YouTube, shows the lone shark being circled in the same waters where Kimon Bisogno was tragically attacked.

Stephanie Plön, a marine biologist and professor at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, told Newsweek that, in the video, the dolphins appear “cautiously inquisitive.”

“It may be a bunch of young animals. The footage shows that not all interactions have ill intent. Dolphins and sharks co-occur in many areas of our oceans, but to date, we have mainly seen the results of aggressive interactions in the evidence of shark bites on both live and dead dolphins,” Plön said.

“New technology, like this drone footage, highlights the fact that there may also be other interactions that we may not be aware of yet.”

Watch the video below:


Sources: Newsweek | Xmierx Youtube 
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