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Can sharks have self control

By: Student Scientist V.
Arizona, Age 14

STEP 1
Question
Will a shark eat anything that it comes into contact to? I asked this question because sharks are fierce hunters and it would be devastating if a shark were to hunt you because you are the only thing in line of sight

HYPOTHESIS
No because sharks don’t always attack people some times they’ll just swim away or ignore you for one reason or another.
STEP 2
Methods
1st I wrote my question
2nd I wrote a hypothesis
3rd I watch informative movies about sharks and took notes
Why do you use this method
I used this method because it was the only method available at the time.
STEP 3
RESULTS
My Hypothesis ended up being correct for the most part. Sharks will eat anything to a point, they wont bother eat smaller fish or other sharks of their species. Also sharks will not eat fish that clean their bodies of parasites and bacteria off the shark’s body. There have been reports, however, of sharks eating a plethora of things such as license plates, a medieval suit of armor and other strange things people might pollute the sea with.

What does this result mean?
I have no idea why a shark wouldn’t eat a human but ate a suit of armor instead it baffles me maybe the armor was threatening or something or the shark was really hungry and the only thing around was a metal suit of armor that cold and life less I mean does the armor radiate electro waves or something that would attract the shark or maybe it was glimmering or something I don’t know… I just don’t know.
STEP 4
Further investigations and questions
I don’t really have any…