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According to the data, the most sharks were recorded on:


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Yeah Oh Shar everybody out of the water So you're

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not reading this while treading in the salty seas clients

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They we are Everything's fine All right When we think

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of sharks we might not think of them as scavengers

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But in addition to hunting a great white shark also

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forages for meat One study here looked at how scavenging

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affect the behavior of white sharks and their relation to

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their physical surroundings For the study the team monitored white

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sharks feeding off a dead whale carcass in False Bay

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South Africa Study found that large sharks might be drawn

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into the bay away from their migration routes by high

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winds as these winds help the water transport the scent

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of that you know dead whale And no this is

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not an allegory for America's a congressional system So table

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one below shows the recorder data from each scavenging event

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in this study All right so we're gonna kind of

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skin this thing and try to figure out what it's

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all about Got whale species in size and wind direction

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and speed and temp on probation Boy they really follow

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things Figure one illustrates the relationship of wind speed Teo

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Maximum Shark's eyes straight line and figure one is a

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linear regression fit to the data points to illustrate a

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direct relationship between wind speed and maximum shark sides Okay

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so let's just get right down here The questions according

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to the data that most sharks were recorded on the

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wind So what We're going to look data here gets

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the regression people where we look well The maximum number

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of sharks observed in a scavenging event is forty That's

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forty sharks You know we've been practicing our shark flipping

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but we're pretty sure we don't stand a chance against

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that many sharks Good thing these sharks have a much

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taste your meal in front of them It's fatter than

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we are The whale is still Each row of table

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one represents data collected from one feeding event When a

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bunch of sharks find a whale carcass and basically have

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a dinner party for the feast with the most inter

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guests can be found by looking at the column labeled

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Max Number Sharks right there and just scanning for the

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greatest number Not once we see that forty is greater

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than all the rest Well we can check out its

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date right there in the second column on the same

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road So in the first row we see that forty

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sharks were found circling a whale carcass on July fifth

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two thousand A belated if Independence Day celebration Maybe Well

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that's it The answer is deep What do you think

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