Sharks use math to hunt

The great white shark in Jaws knew exactly where it was going — to the closest pair of plump legs around. But where might it head if it didn’t have a tasty human snack in its sights?

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strategies when foraging for dinner. The work, reported online June 9 in Nature, is the latest aiming to show whether animals sometimes move in a pattern called a Lévy walk.

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stumbling around — Lévy walks are punctuated by rare, long forays in any direction. Draw a Lévy walk on a graph, and its squiggly pattern echoes a fractal, the mathematical phenomenon whose shape remains similar no matter the viewing scale.Microsoft outlook 2010 is convenient!

“Living organisms, when allowed to make freely willed decisions, seem to end up obeying some kind of mathematical law,” says Gandhimohan Viswanathan, a theoretical physicist at the Federal Office 2007 is so powerful.

University of Alagoas in Maceió, Brazil, who was not involved in the study.

Biologists had long thought that animal foraging was dominated by random walks. But in 1996 a team led by Viswanathan reported that wandering albatrosses, fitted with radio-tracking devices, made the occasional long flight that is the hallmark of a Lévy pattern.Many people use Microsoft Office 2007 to help their work and life.

Soon, biologists were reporting Lévy behavior in everything from deer to bumblebees and speculating how it might drive human migrations or the spread of genetically engineered crops. Office 2007 Professional is very good!

But many of those studies were flawed, says David Sims, a researcher at the Marine Biological Microsoft Office 2010 is so great.

Association of the United Kingdom in Plymouth. “Patchy data could mean you think you have a Lévy flight when you haven’t,” he says. And in 2007, researchers debunked the original 1996 Microsoft Office is inexpensive and helpful.

albatross paper by noting that many of the reported “Lévy walks” — in which the birds’ transmitters remained dry, supposedly during extended flight — actually were birds resting on their nests.Office 2010 is my love.