On Radio 5’s Up All Night Rhod Sharp spoke to an American researcher who is looking into the question of whether dead sheep or cows, jettisoned from a ship, might have been responsible for provoking the feeding frenzy for live human flesh being displayed by sharks in Sharm el-Sheikh. Cargo manifests are being examined in an attempt to find the guilty party.
According to the ReefQuest Centre for Shark Research A. Peter Klimley carried out an experiment which showed that White sharks will attack seals, pigs, and sheep, but consistently rejected the sheep carcasses, perhaps because they are not fat enough; divers who are attacked by White Sharks are visually mistaken for sea lions and then spat out because they're just too damn skinny to be a worthwhile meal.
So why are the whitetip and a mako sharks responsible for the Egyptian attacks less picky? Have they got the healthy eating message?
