Sharks from species once thought harmless kill and eat snorkeler in feeding frenzy
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/shark-attack-diver-fatal-frenzy-b2849811.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/shark-attack-diver-fatal-frenzy-b2849811.html
51 Comments
someguy3@lemmy.world · 95 pts · 303d
Dusky sharks, who are apparently fed by people and tour boat operators so they stick around the boats.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 1 pts · 300d
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 · 66 pts · 303d
Wild animals are never “harmless.”
Deer have killed people. Birds have killed people.
YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 303d
Even snails have killed people. Who knows, there could be a snail coming for you right now!
SecretSauces@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 303d
Very, very slowly
dalekcaan@feddit.nl · 12 pts · 303d
But relentlessly
DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 303d
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 303d
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 pts · 303d
My only regret is that I could not have killed more snails in my short life. They eat my garden.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 303d
Let me introduce you to this French cuisine I think you'll enjoy.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 11 pts · 303d
Water had killed people.
Gravity has killed people.
But above all, humans have killed people.
If I wanted to live, I'd go live with the sharks.
allo@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 303d
100%
humans are the worst
yakko@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 303d
Eh. Food has killed people too, we're not that impressive
30p87@feddit.org · 4 pts · 303d
He looks so silly and cute tho...
Juuuust a liiiiitle snoot boop...
Lembot_0004@discuss.online · 38 pts · 303d
tomiant@piefed.social · 21 pts · 303d
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 pts · 303d
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 pts · 303d
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 pts · 303d
Or meat out of the garbage bin in the park. Or cum from disposed condoms in the park.
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org · 4 pts · 303d
Yeah, ofc. Why would you miss 🤮 an opportunity 🤮for 🤮 a easy 🤮 source of protein 🤮.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 303d
This guy parks.
einkorn@feddit.org · 3 pts · 303d
Now that escalated quickly.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 303d
Or the dismembered body I buried, in the park.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 8 pts · 303d
Maybe NSFW but horse eating a chick.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 302d
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 pts · 303d
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 pts · 303d
That's (not) nuts!
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 303d
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.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 302d
Ice Age 22
tidderuuf@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 303d
I'm gonna go ahead and choose not to swim in a school of sharks.
sepi@piefed.social · 13 pts · 303d
I'm gonna go ahead and choose not to pogo-stick on I-5 at rush hour
SippyCup@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 303d
Listen someone has to and it sounds like you just volunteered
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 303d
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 pts · 303d
This man was last seen surrounded by cats:
Previously thought harmless, these were really really hungry.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 303d
I've never met a cat person who believed they were harmless.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 302d
Not being harmless os part of their charm.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 302d
The odds of your pet cat killing and eating you are low, but never zero.
30p87@feddit.org · 15 pts · 303d
Sharks are literally underwater dogs. Same consequences for FAFO, but much more stigmatized.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 303d
Yeah, but when a Labrador mouths your hand you still get to keep it.
30p87@feddit.org · 2 pts · 303d
If they want to hurt you... no. Maybe not with small dogs, but the same applies to small sharks.
billbasher@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 297d
Sharks aren’t FAFO. If they are hungry they attack.
30p87@feddit.org · 2 pts · 297d
If they're hungry and you look like food to them. Which is non-trivial.
billbasher@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 297d
Isn’t that only poisonous jellyfish?
billbasher@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 303d
The recession (climate change) is hitting us all, human and animal
Shard@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 303d
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 pts · 303d
Wolf314159@startrek.website · 17 pts · 302d
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).
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 pts · 302d
https://xkcd.com/1387/
tomenzgg@midwest.social · 5 pts · 303d
Somewhere, my mother's paranoia is shouting in vindication.
venusaur@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 303d
There’s something in the water there…
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space · 4 pts · 302d
Turns out these sharks have been following the news.
Decent people.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 303d
And they are still harmless, I'm sure flies have killed people too.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 303d
The last thing that went through his head was "dusky shark do do do do do do..."