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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Listen to the first #sounds ever known to be made by #sharks
What, if anything, this chittering means remains a mystery
Animals may be making the sounds -- a series of clicking noises -- by snapping their flat rows of teeth, which are blunt for crushing prey. Sharks can hear mostly low-frequency noise, and clicks they emit are higher pitched, which suggests they are not for communicating with other sharks. It's possible they are a defensive tactic.
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Endangered Caribbean reef sharks and other shark species are making a striking recovery in Belize after plummeting due to overfishing between 2009 and 2019, according to recent observations.

Experts say the establishment of no-shark-fishing zones around Belize’s three atolls in 2021 is what enabled the population boom.

By Marco Lopez
news.mongabay.com/2025/03/cari

Mongabay Environmental News · Caribbean reef sharks rebound in Belize with shark fishers’ helpRosie knows the Lighthouse Reef Atoll like the back of her fin. She calls this atoll home and is a matriarch of the thriving population of Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) living there. Her signature scar on her dorsal fin makes her easy to identify each year during monitoring surveys conducted by MarAlliance, a U.S.-based […]
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