Tubarão branco

As white sharks apparently interact socially by low-intensity biting and grabbing, at least some oral contact with humans and other animals that are not regular prey may have a social framework, with sharks behaving with humans as they would with other sharks. Humans in such interactions may not understand what the shark's body language (including displays such as gaping and hunching) may signify (if they notice them at all) and what responses are appropriate to the context, until the shark proceeds further in the interaction and grabs the person. Work in progress off South Africa suggests that white sharks as individuals and groups confronted by free-swimming skin and SCUBA divers are usually not aggressive even when baits and chum-trails are present but may investigate the divers quite closely without showing any signs of perturbed, agonistic behavior.