White Sharks Have Neighborhoods

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Researchers: Tags Reveal White Sharks

Have Neighborhoods In The North Pacific; 'They're Not Swimming Around Aimlessly'

PALO ALTO, California -- The white shark may be the ultimate loner of the ocean, cruising thousands of miles in a solitary trek, but a team of researchers has discovered that the sharks have maintained such a consistent pattern of migration that over tens of thousands of years the white sharks in the northeastern Pacific Ocean have separated themselves into a population genetically distinct from sharks elsewhere in the world.

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