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New research suggests that changes in the lunar
phase have a significant effect on the interaction
between great white sharks and their seal prey.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) leaping out of water to predate seal, Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa, July.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) porpoising, False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa, July.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) viewed from below, New Zealand, March.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching at night, with moon behind. False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa. Small repro only.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching to catch seal prey at night. False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pussilus) calling underwater, Seal Island, False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Cape fur seal colony (Arctocephalus pusillus) at sunset, Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa, August.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching whilst attacking seals. Seal Island, False Bay South Africa.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Cape fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus) trying to confuse shark predators by moving en masse. Near Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) predating Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa, July. Sequence 1 of 3

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) predating Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa, July. Sequence 2 of 3

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) predating Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa, July. Sequence 3 of 3

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching, False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) patrolling the edge of Seal Island, False Bay South Africa.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) with sunrays, Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa, June.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) attacking Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) Seal Island South Africa.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching, Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Small repro only.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching at sunrise, with coast and urban lights. Mossel Bay, South Africa. May 2016.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) with Pilot fish (Naucrates ductor) Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Small repro only.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) breaching to catch seal prey, False Bay, South Africa. Small repro only.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) on its way back to Seal Island, South Africa.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) with fins at water's surface at sunset, with birds in the background, Gansbaai, South Africa, July.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) attacking Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) Seal Island South Africa.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carchardon carcharias) breaching on seal decoy at dawn, False Bay, South Africa

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) colony with sunrays through clouds, Seal Island, False Bay, South Africa, August 2015

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus), Seal Island, False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa, July.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Cape fur seals (Arctocephalus pussilus) Seal Island, False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa.

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Chris & Monique Fallows / Great white shark (Carchardon carcharias) predating Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusilus) False Bay, South Africa