Shark Attacks in Dakar and the Cap Vert Peninsula, Senegal: Low Incidence despite High Occurrence of Potentially Dangerous Species

Sébastien Trape

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001495

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Shark Attacks in Dakar and the Cap Vert Peninsula, Senegal: Low Incidence despite High Occurrence of Potentially Dangerous Species

Sébastien Trape

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sebastien_trape@yahoo.fr

Affiliations Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Unité de Recherche 070, Dakar, Sénégal, Laboratoire ECOLAG, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5119, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Shark Attacks in Dakar and the Cap Vert Peninsula, Senegal: Low Incidence despite High Occurrence of Potentially Dangerous Species

Sébastien Trape

Published: January 30, 2008
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001495

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Sébastien Trape

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sebastien_trape@yahoo.fr

Affiliations Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Unité de Recherche 070, Dakar, Sénégal, Laboratoire ECOLAG, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5119, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST. Performed the experiments: ST. Analyzed the data: ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ST. Wrote the paper: ST.

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