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Naima Andrea López, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia

Critically endangered scalloped hammerheads gather in seas off Perth. They need protection

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Unlike nearly every other species of shark, scalloped hammerheads are highly social. They gather in large groups, or aggregations, numbering in the hundreds. But why? We don’t know.

With the help of drones, we now know a bit more. In our new research, we describe finding a location in a marine park off the coast of Perth where juvenile scalloped hammerheads (Sphyrna lewini) gather in numbers.

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