Despite how sharks are portrayed in movies and reality tv, here’s what to remember 🦈
Sharks kill 5-10 humans each year.
Humans kill ~100 million sharks each year (and that’s a conservative estimate).
Many species are now threatened with extinction.
Don’t fear sharks. Protect them.
@Sheril Do sharks actually think ohh human - attack or do they pick up signals from people in the water (splashing surely sends say electrical or noise signals) to the shark, which then instinctively heads to wards that as there is usually food.
@zleap @Sheril Usually what happens is the shark mistake a human for something tasty (I have it on good authority that we taste nasty to sharks). From below, a human paddling a surfboard with hands & feet looks a lot like a nice tasty seal. Splashing around in water is what prey do when in distress; blood in the water is, well, blood in the water.
Actual sharks just deciding to prey on humans for spite or something (like in "Jaws") is somewhere between vanishingly rare & flatly non-existent.
I think the first one is a good film, however it did get to the point in the franchise where the shark seems to have developed vengeance, which is when the franchise became rather lost.
I do however understand the link between the movie and bad rep for sharks, perhaps turn a negative in to a positive and use to open up discussions on the subject of sharks.
@zleap @wisteela @Sheril If someone made a successful movie franchise about some largely harmless animal, a monstrous giant hamster maybe, that killed people terrorized a small town, & got more vicious & vengeful with each sequel; lots of people would be terrified of killer hamsters.
It's been nearly 50 years since the first Jaws film was released, & I'm not sure that many dialogues have opened up. Sensationalistic terror always sells better that practical reason: humans always gonna human.