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The Great Sardine Run and the Largest Gathering of Predators on Earth

Some animal events are so epic that they jolt us from our fallacious seat at the centre of the universe. When shoals of sardines materialise containing billions of individual fish, we’re in the realm of an ocean megalopolis – except one that travels as a single biomass fifteen miles long, visible from space. This is the sublime and scarcely comprehensible story of the great sardine run, which also represents the largest gathering of predators on the planet.

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