RE: Do you have a favorite shark?
July 27, 2020 at 10:06 am
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2020 at 11:03 am by Jackie.)
(July 26, 2020 at 4:41 pm)chimp3 Wrote: I was fishing in the Pacific between L.A. and North San Diego County. A whale shark swam under the boat. It was beautiful. Seemed about the size of a school bus.
That is fucking neat!
Me envy!
(July 26, 2020 at 8:12 pm)Gnomey Wrote: I swear, you guys. Reading bits from this thread made me dream last night that I was tied to a chair near the bottom of a reef in the ocean waiting to hang out with a whale shark. Ended up being super scared it would eat me by accident and woke up. ? I know they're generally very safe, but GEEEZZZZZ!!
The thing is in reality, even with animals of any species we consider placid, like elephants and giraffes, they are still big, still tribal and defensive of their herds. A stingray killed Steve Irwin. Normally non aggressive to humans does not make them never dangerous. The bottom line for all wildlife is unless you are a trained biologist/zoologist it is always best to keep your distance. Steve knew what he was doing, and still died from interacting with a normally non aggressive species.
Just because a particular species doesn't see humans as food, , they still can potentially see you as a threat.
Humans still have not yet widely enough accepted that we are not an apex, but one of billions of species.
