As It Happens6:51Great white shark duo in Canada appear to be travelling together — much to scientists’ surprise
Jekyll and Simon keep showing up in all the same places — which is weird, because they are great white sharks.
The apex predators are widely believed to be solitary creatures, not dependent on family networks or group dynamics to navigate the oceans, unlike many of their marine neighbours.
“What we’ve noticed with the case of Simon and Jekyll … was an incredible, I would say, synchronicity in their movements,” shark scientist Bob Hueter told As It Happens guest host Paul Hunter.
Hueter is the chief scientist at
