Why do I have a feeling this is going to be another "Summer of the Shark" even if shark attacks are far less than many previous years (as was the last Summer of the Shark)?
A shark loves to eat more than it loves to kill. Most people that are on boogie boards look like either seals or sea turtles (one of the shark's favorite food) to sharks from below. If a shark sees someothing that looks like a meal in above it - it's going to try to eat it!
How stupid do you have to be to be surprised that a large predator behaves like a large predator?
DUN DUN DUUUNNNNNNNN!!!!!!
We're gonna need a bigger boat...
To the bane of PETA and other animal freaks.....if shark makes good eatin' we should all go on a shark hunting frenzy and make them an endangered species.
*Nothing* beats this tale:
http://members.fortunecity.com/gogodncr/IceMan.html
Iceman' Grabs Shark to Save Men
Fri Oct 24, 9:59 AM ET
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - An Icelandic fishing captain, known as "the Iceman" for his tough character, grabbed a 660-pound shark with his bare hands as it swam in shallow water toward his crew, a witness said Thursday.
The skipper of the trawler "Erik the Red" was on a beach in Kuummiit, east Greenland, watching his crew processing a catch when he saw the shark swimming toward the fish blood and guts -- and his men.
Captain Sigurdur Petursson, known to locals as "the Iceman," ran into the shallow water and grabbed the shark by its tail. He dragged it off to dry land and killed it with his knife.
"He caught it just with his hands. There was a lot of blood in the sea and the shark came in and he thought it was dangerous," Frede Kilime, a hunter and fisherman who watched from the beach, told Reuters by phone from Greenland.
Icelandic author and journalist Reynir Traustason, who knows the trawler captain, said the act was typical of the man.
"He's called 'the Iceman' because he isn't scared of anything," he said. "I know the people in that part of the world. They are really tough."
Therefore, they compensate. ;-)
It doesn't "love to kill". It loves to eat and it kills to do that. This headline is what is called "anthropomorphizing".
"The Bull Shark (It lurks in the shallows, even in fresh water. And it loves to kill.)"
What about the Landshark?
Well, no more swimming in shallow ocean water for me. I've always had a phobia about deep water...now I will avoid the ocean shallows, too.
Always been a mountain type of guy anyway. I can shoot a bear.
As long as they don't make it past Oahe dam, I'm cool.
Loves to kill? Jeez, anthropomorphize much, McCollam?
Cue the "Jaws" music.....Dun-uh......Dun-uh......
DunDunDunDun...............................
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Finally an article that shows the shark species that bodes the greatest peril towards humans. I am actually shocked that the media is even bothering picking up on the Bull shark ....normally they just label every attack a 'Great White shark' act.
