(August 14, 2012 at 12:24 pm)Rhythm Wrote: How often do great whites die natural deaths, more specifically how do other great whites react to this (and how often are they in close proximity when the inevitable occurs)? We don't actually know (because our waters are more mysterious to us than the surface of the fucking moon). What did seem to be pretty well demonstrated is that sharks react to a chemical associated with the death of their own (don't believe that the shark used was great white though).
This would have been my call too. We know that certain animals/insects release "danger chemicals" when attacked, so why not great whites? Also, just because an animal is solitary, it is still a member of a species with survival skills/traits, which would possibly extend to warning other members of the species that there is danger, purely to ensure the survival of the species. Great whites are widely regarded as survival experts in the animal kingdom, as far as I know.
