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May 19, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 16, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the spinner shark is named for the spinning leaps it makes out of the water as part of its feeding strategy?

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Video of Spinner Shark jumping at New Smyrna Beach, FL

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I feel like this was newsworthy enough and notable enough to deserve some kind of mention in the article, I'm just not sure where. -Deathsythe (talk) 12:16, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's cool, but beyond that it's trivial. It doesn't say anything about the species that we didn't already know. That doesn't merit an article mention. Maybe an external link as a (poor) illustration of the behavior, but I have my doubts about the permanency of that link. -- Yzx (talk) 18:26, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Since the Spinner being one of the sharks that are prone to arials, like mako or great whites are, ("The shark's momentum at the end of these spiraling runs often carries it into the air, giving it its common name") it could be put in around that area, as a reference even perhaps or as you suggested, an external link to demonstrate this behavior. -Deathsythe (talk) 20:11, 28 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]