Scientific American did a great piece this month with Doc Gruber in the Bahamas on sharks, research and conservation.Sci Am jumped into the shark conservation arena with Shark Diver on 2008, but this latest article hits all the right notes.
Kudos.
"Many sharks have good learning capacity, which is one way we measure intelligence," says Samuel Gruber, a marine biologist at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), who discovered in 1975 that lemon sharks could learn a classical conditioning task 80 times faster than a cat or rabbit. "I was shocked to find that they could learn so rapidly," he says.
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