Turns out “Jaws” wasn’t so far-fetched after all.
Great white sharks demonstrate some of the same traits as human serial killers — including targeting specific prey and stalking their victims, according to a study released on the Internet today in the Journal of Zoology.
Sharks — like the vicious great white in the “Jaws” franchise — learn from previous kills and have an M.O. as distinct as Jack the Ripper’s.
“There’s some strategy going on,” said study co-author Neil Hammerschlag, a researcher at the University of Miami who studied 340 shark attacks on seals in South Africa.
“It’s more than sharks lurking in the water waiting to go after them [the seals].”
Hammerschlag found that the sharks had a preferred base of operations that enabled them to spy on their prey without being seen. They liked to strike young, lonely victims when the light was low and there were no other sharks around.
But the study notes there is a major difference between psychos like Ted Bundy and killer sharks.
The great whites attack to eat, not for their jollies.