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Journal of Marine Biology
Volume 2016 (2016), Article ID 9539010, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9539010
Research Article

Do White Shark Bites on Surfers Reflect Their Attack Strategies on Pinnipeds?

Erich Ritter1,2 and Alexandra Quester3

1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 32514, USA
2Global Shark Attack File, Shark Research Institute, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
3Department of Biology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria

Received 26 May 2016; Accepted 7 September 2016

Academic Editor: Yehuda Benayahu

Copyright © 2016 Erich Ritter and Alexandra Quester. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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