A filmmaker has caught one shark's set of gnarly 'mating scars' on display in the ocean. The video shows a shark swimming, with clear wounds from another shark's jaws above its gills. 9News
Jalil Najafov, from Azerbaijan, posted the footageThe video shows a shark swimming, with clear wounds from another shark's jaws above its gills.Images of a shark swimming with apparent "mating scars" has been caught on camera, off the coast of Mexico.
"On rare occasions, during mating season among sharks, 'mating scars' appear on female sharks' bodies caused by the males holding onto them," Najafov wrote. "These scars are mostly deeper cuts and punctures, indicating a more forceful motivation such as coercive mating from the male's side." It's not the first time Mr Najafov has captured images of scarred sharks, with more images posted on his page from
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