The puns and allusions to sharks in the stories was funny and clever, but the madness that the interest in Tony spawned did resemble a feeding frenzy. Through it Tony was given the chance to appreciate his own skills and the respect others had for him, such a contrast to Gibbs and Vance’s behaviour even before they tried to sacrifice him for.
In ecology, a feeding frenzy occurs when predators are overwhelmed by the amount of prey available. For example, a large school of fish can cause nearby sharks, such as the lemon shark, to enter into a feeding frenzy.[1] This can cause the sharks to go wild, biting anything that moves, including each other or anything else within biting range. Another functional explanation for feeding frenzy is competition amongst predators.[2] This term is most often used when referring to sharks or piranhas. It has also been used as a term within journalism.[3]
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- ^Bright, Michael (2000). The private life of sharks : the truth behind the myth. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN0-8117-2875-7.
- ^Staddon. Adaptive Behavior and Learning. Foraging and Behavioral Ecology. Retrieved from: http://psychandneuro.duke.edu/uploads/assets/Chapter09.pdfArchived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^Feeding frenzy:how attack journalism has transformed American politics, Sabato, Larry., Macmillan., 1991
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