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A crew of Australian fishermen off Cairns hook a 600lb Marlin – the catch of a lifetime.

Until two Tiger sharks get a sniff of it. (NSFW language).

Meanwhile in other scavenger news…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9Z5hYuIomE

Around a hundred sharks feast on the body of a dead whale at a beach in northwestern Australia.

That’s close enough there, missy.

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Shark expert Michael Rutzen demonstrates the phenomenon of ‘tonic immobility’ in the Bahamas: a natural state of paralysis that animals enter when presented with a threat.

Some sharks can be placed in this state – which generally lasts about fifteen minutes – by turning them upside down.

Glasses, moustaches and cartoon genitals are often drawn on their faces during this time.

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