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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 94 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Dusky sharks, who are apparently fed by people and tour boat operators so they stick around the boats.

Witness testimonies suggest a shark reportedly lunged at his GoPro camera.

“The situation likely occurred via a process of juxtaposition bites, with two distinct motivations: the first, a (probably single) reflex/clumsiness bite driven by food begging, and the second, several predatory bites triggered by a feeding frenzy,” researchers explain.

“The central objective is to eliminate the begging behaviour in sharks, and this can only be achieved by establishing and enforcing a complete and total ban on all artificial feeding of sharks by the public,” scientists write.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 points 1 week ago

Ah, once again we've identified the true problem while they're trying to blame and fearmonger sharks.

Vending machines, people. Don't forget.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Wild animals are never “harmless.”

Deer have killed people. Birds have killed people.

[–] YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Even snails have killed people. Who knows, there could be a snail coming for you right now!

[–] SecretSauces@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The odds of you being killed by a snail are low... but never zero. And when it inevitably happens, there's no way to prove that it was intentional, that it was retribution for your crimes against this snail's entire bloodline... but I'll know.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My only regret is that I could not have killed more snails in my short life. They eat my garden.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

Let me introduce you to this French cuisine I think you'll enjoy.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

1000062613

He looks so silly and cute tho...

Juuuust a liiiiitle snoot boop...

[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 38 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Hunger isn't a joke. I once saw a squirrel eating a bird.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 21 points 1 week ago

I saw a crow snatch up and gulp down a newborn sparrow that fell out of its nest. It was a pretty hardcore nature moment seeing the whole flock of sparrows freak out, and the mom being frantic for an hour afterwards.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A lot of herbivores will eat meat opportunistically, even if they're not starving. It's an easy way of getting quick nutrients.

[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Squirrels are not strictly herbivores though. It's pretty typical behavior for them to occassionally eat eggs, baby birds or other smaller critters.

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Or meat out of the garbage bin in the park. Or cum from disposed condoms in the park.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

This guy parks.

[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, ofc. Why would you miss 🤮 an opportunity 🤮for 🤮 a easy 🤮 source of protein 🤮.

[–] einkorn@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Now that escalated quickly.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Or the dismembered body I buried, in the park.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Christ.

I describe the video briefly below, so don't read if you're straight-up avoiding this.


For anyone curious, it's not gory or horrendous. There is a chick, which the horse just kinda... mouths up, and the hen rushes the horse who just does care. Then more chewing.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Squirrels are omnivorous. Their PR is awesome and not many people know about that. But a squirrel with blood on its face is a little chilling.

[–] PorradaVFR@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

That's (not) nuts!

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Once saw a squirrel run up to a half flattened spasming and dying squirrel on the road and chitter around it for a second. We all thought it was its friend or relative. Then it took the nut out of the dying squirrels mouth and ran off with it.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm gonna go ahead and choose not to swim in a school of sharks.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago

I'm gonna go ahead and choose not to pogo-stick on I-5 at rush hour

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Back in the 70’s I used to swim with nurse sharks all around. Wonder if they will start eating peops at some point as well.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This man was last seen surrounded by cats:

Previously thought harmless, these were really really hungry.

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've never met a cat person who believed they were harmless.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not being harmless os part of their charm.

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

The odds of your pet cat killing and eating you are low, but never zero.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sharks are literally underwater dogs. Same consequences for FAFO, but much more stigmatized.

[–] billbasher@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sharks aren’t FAFO. If they are hungry they attack.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If they're hungry and you look like food to them. Which is non-trivial.

[–] billbasher@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Isn’t that only poisonous jellyfish?

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, but when a Labrador mouths your hand you still get to keep it.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

If they want to hurt you... no. Maybe not with small dogs, but the same applies to small sharks.

[–] billbasher@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

The recession (climate change) is hitting us all, human and animal

[–] Shard@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If a tiny 2 foot long cookie cutter shark can take chunks out of people, then any shark bigger than that with sharp teeth is equally if not more dangerous.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You just said the reason why I don't go in the sharks' homes. They live there. Sharks are gonna shark. Don't wanna get eaten by a shark? Don't go in the water!

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 15 points 1 week ago

The article is saying that these sharks aren't really sharking though. The sharks behavior has been changed by environmental factors (regular human feeding and humans raising the local sea temperature by dumping warm water from the desalination plant).

  1. Sharks are attracted by usually warm water from desalination plant.
  2. Tourist guide boats start chumming the waters to keep the sharks around for tourists.
  3. The attraction of so many mostly harmless sharks changes their feeding dynamic. Ever tried eating an ice cream cone near a small child? Ever tried pushing an ice cream cart through a crowd of small kids? Way different dynamic as supply and demand changes as the crowd grows.
  4. Formerly mostly harmless and "shy around humans" sharks start directly approaching humans as a source of food.
  5. Sharks investigate human, beg for food. How do sharks investigate? By biting, nibbles really, or bumping into people swimming.
  6. The first bite generates a predictably violent reaction from the humans, which triggers a feeding frenzy response. Humans aren't equipped to defend or escape this.

The point is that at every step of the way, these sharks are acting in a very strange way (for them) as a direct result of human action. We've seen this kind of thing before when people feed wild animals, strange and dangerous human seeking behaviors develop: alligators, bears, moose, etc. Dangerous animals? Yes, but the behaviors that result in human deaths are in no way natural.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago
[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago

Somewhere, my mother's paranoia is shouting in vindication.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

There’s something in the water there…

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago

Turns out these sharks have been following the news.

Decent people.

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

The last thing that went through his head was "dusky shark do do do do do do..."