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Bottom Patience principle

Lessons from Nurse Shark

Cruise the bottom.

Barbel-Guided Seafloor Foraging

Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) featured animal image on AnimalDex

Core lesson

Slow strength finds what the restless swimmer passes over.

Biological basis

Nurse Sharks are bottom-dwelling sharks that use barbels near the mouth, suction feeding, and slow cruising over reefs and sandy bottoms to locate prey.

Best use cases

Where this lesson tends to be most useful in practice.

PatienceSlow strengthSensingGrounded paceSeafloor work

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