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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 570294" data-attributes="member: 5137">Sharks work together in the same way that pirahna work together - order coalesces from the chaos of feeding. Some rough rules:1) Don't attack while another shark is attacking. It's not polite.2) Don't attack while the prey is facing you. It hurts their feelings.3) Bite as much off as you can, but dribble some for your homeys.4) If you smell dribble (at several miles), you're invited.The result is tactics very similar to wolves, where the ones the prey can see circle, and the flanking wolves attack. And if the bioluminescence isn't needed, it's a waste of energy - that energy costs food, which means that if it doesn't noticeably improve how much food the shark gets, the shark doesn't do as well as its unevolved cousins.The only thing the sharks did that required teamwork was herd the tiny not-a-fish things, and I'm still puzzled as to why, exactly, they were doing that. If it's too maneuverable to catch, the sharks will hunt something else. Herding it to make catching easier costs energy, and I don't think that the not-a-fishies would provide that much extra energy to pay it back.What would have been more interesting would have been to see a creature that was evolved to escape unevolved sharks, and possibly a new shark that had developed to catch it anyway.Maybe a shocker shark that stuns its prey at range? Or maybe a rainbow shark... silent, invisible death zooming through the water at 25 mph. Both of these would have to result in sufficiently more prey to feed the extra energy costs, of course.</blockquote>

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