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A great white shark off the coast of Isla Guadalupe, Mexico,...
Reportage by Getty Images TumblrA great white shark off the coast of Isla Guadalupe, Mexico, near tourists in a dive cage. Reportage photographer Benjamin Lowy made the plunge recently for The New York Times:
While knowledge about the shark is limited — behaviors like breeding and birth have hardly ever been observed — the great white is considered to be remarkably intelligent. Many boat tour operators who supply cages to tourists note that sharks in other parts of the world have been habituated to humans, associating people and boats with bait. For that reason Isla Guadalupe’s shark tours remain some of the few that do not chum the water with bloody carcasses on fishing lines and that do not try to antagonize the creatures, but rather embrace an eco-tourism approach of leaving food floating in the water and allowing the migrating sharks to inspect and interact.
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