The Scientific Community Was Skeptical
There were some in the scientific community who believed that Hauser’s theory about the whale’s behavior was accurate. But there were other scientists who weren’t convinced of the whale’s true motives but believed that it might have been acting the way it did for reasons other than the selfless ones Hauser believed in. So, the tiger shark’s presence in the water might have simply been a coincidence. But was the shark ever there to begin with?