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The Secret Life of Sharks

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Courtship Tourist

Scientists started to notice something called the courtship tourist. They had their mouths closed and were swimming very, very slowly in a circle. We do think that it's possibly linked to mating - but we don't know much about basking shark mating. The collective noun for sharks is a shiver; they will gather in groups of hundreds.

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