BBC NATURE : OCEANIC WHITE TIP SHARK RETURNING HOME TO BAHAMAS
EXCERPT: "They are opportunistic predators with powerful jaws and as such are considered one of the more dangerous sharks to humans, although the number of unprovoked attacks on people is small...
"Of all the sharks that live in the open ocean they're the ones that have really declined a lot in the last few decades," said Dr Demian Chapman of Stony Brook University, New York, US, who led the study.
"They've gone from being one of the most abundant large vertebrates on the planet to being considered quite endangered."
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