Carlos Gauna, a wildlife photographer and videographer, recently took the first images of a young great white shark not long after it was born.
“I want to kind of tell the story of what sharks do when we aren’t watching, we aren’t interacting with them when we’re not touching them,” he stated to CBS News. And as a result of that encounter, I have witnessed several sharks performing some extremely bizarre and unexplainable behaviors. You never know what a glance will reveal.”
Mother great white sharks can give birth to two or ten pups at a time during their more than a year-long gestation cycle. These ovoviviparous animals develop inside of their bodies and then come out of them live.
Using a drone, Gauna and his boyfriend, Phillip Sternes, a doctorate student studying biology at the University of California, Riverside, saw a massive shark descend approximately 1,000 feet from shore last year near Santa Barbara.
The birthing habits of great white sharks are still mostly unknown, despite the common misconception that they can only give birth in deeper seas.
