The Beacon  Blog Tags: Going Rogue  Can Sharks 'Go Rogue'?
great white shark  Great white shark in South Africa. [Image
via]  Editor's note: Happy Shark Week! All week long we'll be
re-capping some highlights from Shark Week programming. Today we
review "Going Rogue" and "Summer of the Shark."  Would a shark
ever “go rogue” and start mercilessly attacking humans? That’s
the question that last night’s episode in the Shark Week lineup
sought to answer. Ever since New England beachgoers were
terrorized by a rogue shark in “Jaws,” it has been a common fear
that sharks, particularly great whites, are ruthless, man-eating
machines.  This episode shed some light on the matter with a mix
of shark attack stories and scientific studies on shark
behavior. The conclusions likely elicited a collective sigh of
relief across America: Sharks have never in fact gone rogue like
Jaws did, but instead almost always bite a human as a result of
other environmental factors at play.  In reality, the likelihood
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