"The finding challenges fears Great White numbers are mounting. Such claims have been widespread since Spielberg’s horror classic Jaws."
Despite an eight hundred percent increase attacks on surfers since 1999 and one prominent ex-shark fisherman describing Great Whites as back to their “pre-white man biomass”, researchers have claimed their could be fewer than 500 adult breeding Great Whites left in Australian waters.
In research paid for by NSW’s Department of Primary Industries and conducted by Deakin Uni, coincidentally the same uni your ol pal DR is doin’ a literature course in, they say the species is closer to extinction than ever and despite it being protected since 1999.
Deakin’s scientists mapped the DNA of 650 Great Whites and found 275 of ’em were siblings, 511 half siblings on the east coast and 12 siblings, 29 half siblings in the southern oceans. According to the researchers, the interrelatedness means there’s only 500 or so studs and bitches pumping out the kids.
So why are kids being eaten alive in the surf, daddy’s disappeared entirely, and everywhere from Margaret River to Ceduna and Byron Bay via Tuncurry, Port Macquarie Wooli and Ballina?
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That’s 500 too many. Lets make some HamSammishes out of em.
Same scientists who said covid vaccines were necessary to save the human population
Whites are out of control
Cull
Fucking for profit science. It’s amazing what kind of bull shit lies will be published with a hand full of one grand grants handouts.
a bunch of grad students are gonna feel warm and fuzzy, thinking they saved their cute cuddly little sea puppies while humans and families are being torn to pieces.
Another hit at out at Cabba this evening. So they are still around.
GwS are the only ones doing anything practical about the ever increasing crowds of kooks so I’ll give them some credit
There’s a Jed, and another Jed over there, and shit, we’re surrounded by Jed’s.
To think environmentalists caused this mess. And can’t admit there’s a problem.
I read an article online about 15 years ago critical of the science used to estimate the population of white sharks. It was from Oxford. This research paper concluded the white shark wasn’t in danger and didn’t need protection. I have scoured the internet and the university’s website to reference it many times, but seems it was removed for some reason 🤔?
so Oxford UK is critical of the methodology from 15 yrs ago….then it get’s removed as we now have some science which debunks the whole fisherman/local anecdote methodlology or lack of it.
It’s not a mess , we now know that GWS’s have very limited numbers and need protecting!
No probably used the same flawed methodology.
And paper was removed most likely by pressure from environmentalists.
Turns out plenty of whites, unfortunately the whites in question not so great
Maybe Gay Whites! Identifying as man eaters !
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Like ones from Alabama
Blood feud: Questionable statistics vs anecdotal evidence, vying for your confirmation bias.
cotw…
sure makes …save the whites seem relevant?
Save our souls though !
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Maybe you could feed one of them the erroneous apostrophe in your story to help beef the numbers up.
As the old saying goes
Liars, damned liars, and university researchers…
Orcas maybe doing the culling now.
They are following the rejuvenated whales again.
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After whale bumjuice leakage …dirty orcas
Deeks! Whale bum juice is actually mega important !
Remind me to elaborate !
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