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Peter Benchley, author of "Jaws," based his novel in part on the attacks on the Jersey coast in 1916 by a great white shark. Benchley appeared at a hearing in Australia, pleading with the council not to hunt down and slaughter a great white that had killed a young swimmer. His depiction of the great white, he told them, was not representative of the true behavior of a great white—they were not man-eaters.