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    "transcript":"\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EAustralia’s shark bay is home to over ten\u002Dthousand dugongs.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EIt seems like a perfect spot for these air\u002Dbreathing herbivores. The water is shallow and peppered with beds of sea grass,  the dugongs main source of food.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EBiologist Aaron Wirsing has come here from Canada to study the dugong.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EAaron Wirsing: “We know almost nothing about its habitat use patterns, its feeding habits, and the way it gets along with some of its major predators like tiger sharks.”\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThe tiger shark, a beautiful, agile, and powerful hunter is the one thing that keeps shark bay from being a paradise for the slow moving dugongs.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ENamed for their stripes, tiger sharks are massive warm\u002Dwater predators capable of growing over 14ft long, and reaching weights of 2,000 pounds.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ESeems like a bit of a mismatch for the smaller dugongs, which are more closely related to the elephant than to other seafaring mammals like seals and walruses.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EAaron Wirsing: “And there’s a very interesting race going on right here in shark bay between dugongs and tiger sharks.”\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ETo get a closer look at that race from the perspective of the dugongs, our team deploys some Crittercams.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThe team is eager to learn what they can about how these clumsy looking vegetarians manage to evade the tiger sharks.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThere are a few surprises in store. First of all the dugongs are going much deeper than Aaron thought.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EBut there’s not nearly as much food down here as there is in the shallower waters. Still, the Cittercam team believes that feeding at greater depth may be how the dugongs manage to evade the sharks.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EShallow water means tiger sharks. So dugongs do a lot of their foraging in deep water where the tiger sharks don’t hunt.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EAnother of nature’s mysteries solved,  thanks to a dedicated team of scientists and Crittercam.\u003C/p\u003E",

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