New Zealand's great white sharks enjoy an annual "tropical holiday", swimming thousands of kilometres (miles) to warm South Pacific waters before returning home, according to researchers.
This file photo shows a great white shark jumping out of the water during a hunt. New Zealand's great whites enjoy an annual "tropical holiday", swimming thousands of kilometres to warm South Pacific waters before returning home, according to researchers.
Scientists who monitored the giant predators for the past six years at Stewart Island, off New Zealand's south coast, found that they regularly set off for destinations such as Tonga, Fiji and Vanuatu in mid-winter.
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