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Shark Week: The Podcast – How Sharks Are Built to Hunt
Dive in with marine biologist and shark expert Luke Tipple as he shares amazing facts about sharks' super-hero senses and dispels common shark myths.
July 21, 2022
Episode show notes:
In this episode of Shark Week: The Podcast, marine biologist and shark expert Luke Tipple answers the burning question: how do sharks jump so high out of the water? And he breaks down the unique ways sharks hunt and navigate using their super-hero sixth sense and how you can put a shark in a trance, a reflex called tonic immobility. He also dispels the myths that secreting bodily fluids will increase the likelihood of a shark encounter.
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