The walking sharks tend to appear in roughly the same area, which happens to be in the waters off of Northern Australia.

“We’ve found that most walking sharks spend their entire lives on the same reef they where they hatched — never really moving more than a mile out of this radius.

The researchers explain that the sharks that have been observed walking tend to be in isolated areas and don’t travel far

They attribute the rapid development of walking techniques to individuals or small groups of sharks moving to a new area and, once they adopt the walking technique, future generations learn it from birth