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 / Modified may 17, 2010 11:46 a.m.

NATURE Sharkland

In the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Southern Africa, a pattern of warm and cold currents brings together a variety of sharks. Thursday at 8 p.m. on PBS-HD. by Colleen Greer

Roughly 140 species of all colors, shapes and sizes gather there, including pajama sharks, leopard cat sharks, seven-gill cow sharks and the great white.

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A great white shark leaps out of the water to attack a decoy in False Bay off the coast of South Africa.

The shark gathering includes species that are normally found oceans apart. Some are swept there by a ribbon of warm water, the Agulhas current, snaking down the eastern coast of Africa from the tropical Indian Ocean.

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