why doesn't anyone care about the sharks?

Discussion in 'Endangered Species and Ecosystems' started by stickinote07, Jul 18, 2006.

  1. dd3stp233

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    Sharks don't naturally eat people. People are alien to their underwater world. Sometimes they do take a bite of a person to see if it is edible, but generally find the taste not to their palate, that is why most shark attack victoms are left and not devoured whole. Death by shark is a rare occurance, about average is 8 per year, many more peope are killed by being trampled by horses, does that make horses evil monsters?
     
  2. dirtydog

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    Now that's going to do me one hell of a lot of good when he's just seeing if I'm edible.
    The trick I liked, and got a big kick out of, was when someone speared a flounder, recorded its convulsions on tape, and lowered an underwater amplifier into a tropical reef channel in the Gilbert Islands at a spot where the sharks like to patrol at tidal surge time. He set off a feeding frenzy that set some kind of record. Dog eat dog, so to speak. I'm sure the prey species were feeling safer for a couple of days.

    By the way, there was nothing cruel in the 'flounder record' experiment, if you define cruel as one animal being eaten by another. If there were, say, 50 surviving sharks, each of which had, say, two victims that day, there would be the same 100 shark meals (or kilograms of prey consumed) on that day whether the prey were sharks or not.

    Almost as funny as the blacks rioting and burning down their own neighborhoods.
     
  3. dd3stp233

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    I just saying that a shark actually eating a person is very rare. Most people die from a shark attack after being biten once and then bleeding to death. Generally the shark mistakes a human for one of its normal food sources and takes a bite, then realizes it is not something they recognize and does try to continue to feed. Though I have never encountered any large sharks, several times I have been in the Pacific Ocean, surfing, swimming, etc and had small sharks swimming around me and though they were cool.
     
  4. Lainey

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    if the world flooded they wouldnt take mercy
     
  5. dd3stp233

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    If the world flooded, I would be more worried about drowning.

    In 2006, only 4 people in the all of Earth where killed by sharks. Deer, cows, hippos, dogs, etc kill far more people than that every year. If you want to be at all realistic, cars are thousands of times more dangerous to people then any shark.
     
  6. Tipo Sensuale

    Tipo Sensuale Senior Member

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    it takes special effort, gotta love them for taking the time and the interest really...
     
  7. Chris Jury

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    To put into perspective how small a risk sharks actually pose to humans: the risk of being killed by a falling cocunut is 15x higher than the risk of being killed by a shark.

    I understand that the thought of being killed by a shark it terrifying. It is natural given our history to fear things that wish to eat us, but the very grey matter up top that has allowed us to stop things from eating us should allow us to overcome the once rational fears than today have become irrational ;)

    Oh, and a lot of people do care about sharks, though not enough...
     

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