New research shows that hammer sharks may be more like 'vegetarian' than meat

The shark species through Hollywood horror movies are often misunderstood as a bloodthirsty, warlike species and are always trying to feed humans. However, in fact, most cases of people being attacked by sharks are due to their curiosity, not because of the instinct of assassination like what is woven, and calculating the proportion of sharks that are human. handling is many times higher than the opposite.

Bonnethead sharks are very caring species of green leaves in the sea vegetation.

The vegetarian shark fantasies are only available in the movie Finding Nemo that most of us have seen when we were kids, it turned out in the real world that scientists also found a shark eating vegetables, not just eating meat, That's the bonnethead shark , a genus of hammer sharks.

In the study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, bonnethead sharks are very attentive to green leafs in marine vegetation , and the proportion of food they consume is 62%. Marine plants, the rest are other animals. This is the result of a three-week trial with a method of feeding them a lot of vegetables (90% seagrass, 10% squid) and analyzing feces, this result also helps the research team. claiming bonnethead sharks are the first sharks to be discovered that have omnivorous digestive system and they actually ate vegetables to absorb nutrition rather than eating bim snack, mouth-to-mouth play for fun.

This study will help us better understand the bonnethead shark with an estimated population of nearly 5 million around the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, which will also be another approach to animal conservation. this is like the environment around them.

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