Sharks have personalities - just like us

By Bridie Smith
Updated June 20 2016 - 12:45pm, first published May 27 2016 - 12:15am
Associate Professor Culum Brown with a Port Jackson shark.  Photo: Quentin Jones
Associate Professor Culum Brown with a Port Jackson shark. Photo: Quentin Jones
Could this be a bold, smiling shark? Photo: Julianna Kadar
Could this be a bold, smiling shark? Photo: Julianna Kadar
Sharks have personalities - and some sharks are more shy than others. Photo: C. Vila Poca
Sharks have personalities - and some sharks are more shy than others. Photo: C. Vila Poca
A Port Jackson shark with a snorkeler. Photo: Sander van Dijk
A Port Jackson shark with a snorkeler. Photo: Sander van Dijk

Not all sharks share the sinister aggression of the great white that terrorised beachgoers in the 1970s classic Jaws.