For the shark, Homo sapiens is not an instinctive, natural prey. Men and women are, at best, a curiosity and, most of the time, a potential danger to avoid. So where do these fatal bites — as tragic as they are rare — come from? For decades, science has approached sharks through the reductive prism of instinct or of statistical fatality shaped by environmental factors.
What if the key to peaceful cohabitation lay elsewhere?
Not in the study of a species as a whole, but in the understanding of the individual… Drawing on the latest advances in cognitive ethology, this book proposes a radical paradigm shift. The authors decipher the emergence of unique individuals with atypical personalities, around the concept of the “singular shark”. They analyze what, in precise and exceptional configurations, drives and conditions bites. For an argued reconciliation between sharks and humans. (Book in French.)
See also
Dans la tête d’un requin — BELIN Éd.
An ethological investigation that upends what we thought we knew about sharks.
La Chasse sous-marine moderne
The essential tool of the modern, responsible spearfisher.
Requins d’Océanie
The reference book on sharks in ancestral Oceania.
Film — À bout de souffle
2002 · Palme d’or at the World Festival of Underwater Pictures.
Film — Plasticos
2013 · Jury prize, Mayotte underwater image festival.