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New podcast from The Marine Biological Association: Slow-motion speed dating and other shark matters with Professor David Sims

In our latest podcast, behavioural ecologist Professor David Sims tells us all about the rarely-seen circling behaviour of giant basking sharks.
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Editor, The Marine Biologist magazine, The Marine Biological Association
New podcast from The Marine Biological Association: Slow-motion speed dating and other shark matters with Professor David Sims
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What drives animals to go where they go? In this podcast Professor David Sims talks about his research group's detailed study of basking shark aggregations off the West coast of Ireland.  

"The sharks were circling around in in a really tight circle: strange, not usual for a foraging situation".

This podcast builds on David's article, 'Basking shark circles' that appeared in the January edition of The Marine Biologist, the magazine for members of the Marine Biological Association.

Professor David Sims is a Senior Research Fellow at the MBA where he leads the Movement Ecology and Conservation of Ocean Predators research group.

This and our previous podcasts can be downloaded here.

Find out more about marine biology and joining the MBA here.

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Guy Baker
Editor, The Marine Biologist magazine, The Marine Biological Association

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