Sharks Love Death Metal: Great Whites Attracted to Music (VIDEO)

Humans aren't the only ones who like death metal music. It turns out that, appropriately, sharks also enjoy the sound. Scientists have discovered that the dense tones of death metal music actually attract sharks.

A Discovery Channel crew that was filming for the Shark Week show was actually on the hunt for a great white shark. Baiting the creature, though, didn't seem to be working. That's why they submerged a giant speaker to see whether great whites could react or not.

Why bother submerging a speaker? Sharks actually possess receptors that pick up low sound frequencies that resemble that of struggling fish. Going off of that theory, the crew decided to use death metal music to potentially attract the sharks, since the music also possesses the same dense tones.

This isn't the first time that shark hunters have noted that music can affect sharks. Matt Waller, a shark tour operator in Australia, found that AC/DC records caused sharks to change their behavior and swim up to his boat.

In this case, though, researchers managed to attract a 12-foot shark and a 14-foot shark.

The new method could be huge in terms of shark conservation; scientists may be able to use the technique to attract sharks to assess their health and overall population numbers in an area.

Want to see a few sharks for yourself? Check out the video below, courtesy of YouTube.

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