The first documented case of a person being killed by a dusky shark occurrred in April 2025. Now, new research has raised concerns that the extremely rare attack may have been motivated by a kind of “begging behavior” that’s been encouraged by years of humans feeding the sharks in the region scraps. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

“Artificial feeding, when it is regulated and monitored by authorities, can have massive benefits for ecotourism and local economies as well as improve the perception of sharks in terms of people being able to see them and spend time in the water with them,” said Kristian Parton, a marine biologist and shark scientist from the University of Exeter, in a release . “There are lots of place

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