Great White Shark... friendly?!

LabR@t · 19 Jan 2019 at 08:55

Amazing pictures, better than Any movie

Bassmansam · 19 Jan 2019 at 09:21

What are people defining as monsters then?

SexyGreyFox · 19 Jan 2019 at 10:24

Roar87 said:
Sharks quite obviously aren't monsters, but they aren't always biting "out of curiosity" either, they have hunted humans and eaten them alive, even Scuba divers who don't look like Seals.

My Google skillz are useless, I can't find anything where sharks hunt humans and eat them.

Roar87 · 19 Jan 2019 at 10:32

SexyGreyFox said:
My Google skillz are useless, I can't find anything where sharks hunt humans and eat them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_shark_attacks_in_South_African_territorial_waters

Skinner was standing in chest-deep water in False bay when a white shark bit him. Skinner signaled for help. The shark then pulled him under the water. When he surfaced the shark bit him again. Helicopters and boats were then sent out to look for him.[11]According to witnesses, Skinner was eaten alive by the white shark, which was described as being "as large as a dinosaur"

There's loads. You have to remember that these are only the one's where people have been confirmed killed by a shark, there will be unconfirmed attacks where people have just been eaten while swimming or surfing alone and no body will have been found.

mattyg · 19 Jan 2019 at 10:35

robfosters said:
Rules? What rules?

Same as the American werewolf rules

STAY ON THE PATH..

SexyGreyFox · 19 Jan 2019 at 10:37

Roar87 said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_shark_attacks_in_South_African_territorial_waters

There's loads. You have to remember that these are only the one's where people have been confirmed killed by a shark, there will be unconfirmed attacks where people have just been eaten while swimming or surfing alone and no body will have been found.

I'd say he was bitten to death and not eaten.

robfosters · 19 Jan 2019 at 10:37

Bassmansam said:
What are people defining as monsters then?

Janet Street-Porter

Roar87 · 19 Jan 2019 at 10:41

SexyGreyFox said:
I'd say he was bitten to death and not eaten.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_shark_attacks_in_Australia

Some of these:

Christine Armstrong Female 63 Eaten Whole finished by seagulls

Ben Linden Male 24 Eaten whole. Shark attacked jet ski trying to retrieve Ben's body.

Sam Kellett Male 28 Eaten whole body never recovered.

I will literally not swim in waters that have Great White's in them, it's just a big nope from me.

SexyGreyFox · 19 Jan 2019 at 11:01

Roar87 said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_shark_attacks_in_Australia
Some of these:
I will literally not swim in waters that have Great White's in them, it's just a big nope from me.

Like I said somewhere above, many body parts have been found in sharks including whole bodies but my definition of eaten is being digested and then poo'd out which from the multitude of shark documentaries I've watched doesn't happen but mistakes do happen and for that reason I would also stay out of the water

robgmun · 19 Jan 2019 at 11:16

200sols said:
Like I said, its the image. Makes her look almost anorexic rather than athletic.

I think she has a stunning figure, but it could be the fins she's wearing making her body looking a lot longer and hence thinner than usual. Personally i think she looks amazing

h4rm0ny · 19 Jan 2019 at 11:37

Sharks, *pfft*. It's seals you have to watch out for...

wolfie138 · 19 Jan 2019 at 13:43

Roar87 said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_shark_attacks_in_South_African_territorial_waters

There's loads. You have to remember that these are only the one's where people have been confirmed killed by a shark, there will be unconfirmed attacks where people have just been eaten while swimming or surfing alone and no body will have been found.

not entirely sure that qualifies as "hunting" humans. it's looking for food, test bites, gets blood in the water.

h4rm0ny · 19 Jan 2019 at 15:50

wolfie138 said:
not entirely sure that qualifies as "hunting" humans. it's looking for food, test bites, gets blood in the water.

Perhaps it should wear a deerstalker and use a Winchester rifle? What exactly qualifies as a shark "hunting humans" if not swimming up to them and killing them? You seem to have, if you'll pardon me, an unattainable criteria here.

SexyGreyFox · 19 Jan 2019 at 16:18

h4rm0ny said:
Perhaps it should wear a deerstalker and use a Winchester rifle? What exactly qualifies as a shark "hunting humans" if not swimming up to them and killing them? You seem to have, if you'll pardon me, an unattainable criteria here.

Sharks don't hunt humans for food but they mistake them for other sea animals and take a bite and very quickly realise they are not tasty.
Sometimes whole bodies have been found in sharks but they haven't been digested and poo'd through a letterbox.
I'm on the side of David Attenborough and not sensationalist reporting.

wolfie138 · 19 Jan 2019 at 16:26

h4rm0ny said:
Perhaps it should wear a deerstalker and use a Winchester rifle? What exactly qualifies as a shark "hunting humans" if not swimming up to them and killing them? You seem to have, if you'll pardon me, an unattainable criteria here.

it wasn't "hunting humans" it was looking for food. it came across humans. "hunting humans" implies it was specifically looking only for humans.

h4rm0ny · 19 Jan 2019 at 17:17

wolfie138 said:
it wasn't "hunting humans" it was looking for food. it came across humans. "hunting humans" implies it was specifically looking only for humans.

The shark is hunting. Included in the group of things it is hunting, are humans. By your logic, it doesn't hunt fish because if it "comes across a human" and eats him, it's not specifically looking only for fish and therefore doesn't hunt fish. Unless you (a) have found a shark that only ever eats one and only one specific type of prey or (b) speaks and tells you "today, I'm hunting X and will ignore Y", then you're out of luck. Your logic above means sharks never hunt.

Sasahara · 19 Jan 2019 at 21:13

h4rm0ny said:
The shark is hunting. Included in the group of things it is hunting, are humans. By your logic, it doesn't hunt fish because if it "comes across a human" and eats him, it's not specifically looking only for fish and therefore doesn't hunt fish. Unless you (a) have found a shark that only ever eats one and only one specific type of prey or (b) speaks and tells you "today, I'm hunting X and will ignore Y", then you're out of luck. Your logic above means sharks never hunt.

If shark are actively hunting humans they must be the worse hunters in evolutionally history.
And sharks like most other predators do target specific pray and tend to go were that specific prey is located. If sharks did specificity target humans they would frequent beaches and other area with lot of human activity, but you know what, they don't tend to do that.

Sharks like most predators would eat anything viable if it was in need of food, you know just like any other animal. I'm sure if we could count the entire human history I wouldn't be surprised if humans east more humans than sharks.

By your measure dogs are far worse human predators.

timebomb26 · 20 Jan 2019 at 00:18

Sharks are ****ing cool and this White is a beast.

It is a shame that the indifference of some people and their unwillingness to change their minds is one of the biggest obstacles to conservation.

Diddums · 20 Jan 2019 at 01:06

h4rm0ny said:
The shark is hunting.

It stops there to be honest. The rest of your post isn't even close to aligning with a typical sharks' behaviour. I can go at this topic for days, but there's no need.

[FnG]magnolia · 20 Jan 2019 at 09:18

Roar87 said:
I will literally not swim in waters that have Great White's in them, it's just a big nope from me.

I don't imagine this is an insurmountable problem for you in, uh, Leeds.