A new study from California State University Long Beach suggests that sharks in the waters off the Southern California coastline may be more common than we once thought.
'What I found is that they're not that different from Southern Californians, in that they are pretty picky in the temperatures that they like to swim in,' researcher Emily Spurgeon said. Spurgeon is with the university's Shark Lab. For the last two years, she's helped tag and trace the movements of nearly two dozen juvenile white sharks.
She also found that juvenile great whites preferred to swim in shallow water, spending about 75% of their time in areas no more than six feet deep. Spurgeon said they stayed in these waters to protect themselves against other predators and to find some prey to eat. 'The adults will spend more time in deeper colder water,' she said. 'But these juveniles ... they are swimming where all the people also like to swim.
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