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** Hooper does refer to the shark as a night feeder; this is a dubious claim since the kid was chomped in broad daylight. In reality though great whites may not hesitate to hunt during the day as they can be ambush predators which target the silhouette of prey from below, easier done with bright daylight above. Regardless though, Bruce is extremely unusual and could just be acting out of normal patterns in yet another way.
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*** Agreed. It's clear that before the moment where Brody is chumming the waters, no one got a good up close view of the shark except for Michael Brody (and he wasn't only just traumatized by witnessing someone getting eaten by a shark in front of him, he also wasn't there). Before that, anyone who eyewitnessed an attack were witnessing it from a distance (as seen when the girl at the pond saw the shark's fin, which makes it looks small giving how far away the shark was from shore.


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*** Agreed. It's clear that before the moment where Brody is chumming the waters, no one got a good up close view of the shark except for Michael Brody (and he wasn't only just traumatized by witnessing someone getting eaten by a shark in front of him, he also wasn't there). Before that, anyone who eyewitnessed an attack were witnessing it from a distance (as seen when the girl at the pond saw the shark's fin, which makes it looks small giving how far away the shark was from shore.

shore, as well when the Kintner kid was killed).

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\n*** Agreed. It's clear that before the moment where Brody is chumming the waters, no one got a good up close view of the shark except for Michael Brody (and he wasn't only just traumatized by witnessing someone getting eaten by a shark in front of him, he also wasn't there). Before that, anyone who eyewitnessed an attack were witnessing it from a distance (as seen when the girl at the pond saw the shark's fin, which makes it looks small giving how far away the shark was from shore.

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* While the film is ''filled to the brim'' with scientific inaccuracies, one that I don't think has been talked about a lot (although it's possible I'm wrong about this and it ''isn't'' an inaccuracy, though somehow I doubt it) is the fact that the shark is observed preying on people at both day and night throughout the film, suggesting it doesn't have a regular circadian sleep cycle, which I guess I found somewhat unlikely? Although perhaps this one may in fact be somewhat plausible given that they apparently only need about four hours, according to this article: https://justagric.com/how-does-a-great-white-shark-sleep/

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* While the film is ''filled to the brim'' with scientific inaccuracies, one that I don't think has been talked about a lot (although it's possible I'm wrong about this and it ''isn't'' an inaccuracy, though somehow I doubt it) is the fact that the shark is observed preying on people at both day and night throughout the film, suggesting it doesn't have a regular circadian sleep cycle, which I guess I found somewhat unlikely? Although perhaps this one may in fact be somewhat plausible given that they apparently only need about four hours, according to this article: https://justagric.com/how-does-a-great-white-shark-sleep/com/how-does-a-great-white-shark-sleep/

*In the mortuary scene, the tray holding Chrissie's remains is far too shallow to contain what Hooper is describing. You might even say they needed a bigger tray.
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*** Gardner is referring to the entire circus, NOT the specific characters in the tiger shark scene, who *could* be experienced firshermen and certainly know enough about sharks to have heard of the mako, so therefore should also have heard of the tiger.

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*** Gardner is referring to the entire circus, NOT the specific characters in the tiger shark scene, who *could* be experienced firshermen fishermen and certainly know enough about sharks to have heard of the mako, so therefore should also have heard of the tiger.

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**** Gardner is referring to the entire circus, NOT the specific characters in the tiger shark scene, who *could* be experienced firshermen and certainly know enough about sharks to have heard of the mako, so therefore should also have heard of the tiger.
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** This shark is unusual in-universe. It's clearly spoken many times during this movie, that "Bruce" is not behaving like a natural animal. There realy is no need to dig here.

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