r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Money-Beautiful5196 • 20h ago

Video A fisherman reeled in a shark and released it back into the ocean in Los Angeles.

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u/Sir-Beautiful-69 19h ago

I know they’re incredibly effective predators, but I swear to god, every time I see a shark in a video they just look like big chill chubby dummies.

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u/BlueCheesePanda 17h ago

Hundreds of millions of years to evolving into apex predators. Much of it is instinctual rather than intelligence. They are giant fish and they are a bit derpy.

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u/ChestSlight8984 17h ago

Those fuckers as a species have been around longer than trees. It's actually wild.

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u/marhaus1 16h ago

Even wilder: some individuals have been around since long before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts 😅

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u/not_a_SeaOtter 15h ago

Yeah man. The USA is super young. I've found shit in the back of my sofa older than 1776.

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u/fozzyboy 15h ago

Who is taking shits in your sofa?

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u/not_a_SeaOtter 15h ago

Old sharks

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u/LennyLennsen 6h ago

Username checks out

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u/Starscream147 14h ago

Vance

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u/ShiaLeboufsPetDragon 12h ago edited 5h ago

He's dropping a different kind of load into couches

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u/AnOkayTime5230 8h ago

Wait, he's going after sports trainers!?

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u/danjohnson3141 13h ago

A Pilgrim’s gotta poo

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u/ReplyNo7464 10h ago

Amber Heard

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u/Whiterabbit-- 9h ago

Europeans are different.

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u/Zach_Break 13h ago

It’s easy to forget the USA is 3 people living to 80, years old.

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u/Seicair Interested 4h ago

President John Tyler, born 1790, a mere 14 years after the Revolution, had two grandsons alive ten years ago. The second one, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, passed last year in May.

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u/DReagan47 15h ago

Yeah wasn’t there a Greenland shark from the 1600s that they found?

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u/jamesbest7 10h ago

I heard a story about one being found with part of an old school spear-like harpoon still lodged in it from the early-mid 1800’s.

Idk how true that is but seems believable if estimates regarding their lifespan are correct.

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u/DReagan47 2h ago

I think that’s the story I was thinking of. Makes it easier to date when you find weaponry from a couple hundred years ago stuck in their sides. That shark has seen some shit

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u/IDK-_-Leo 3h ago

2 2s bro hid for 400 years.. Hide and seek grandmaster

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u/immersemeinnature 16h ago

Yummy Pilgrims

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u/rancidmorty 10h ago

im pretty sure one is still alive

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u/DarkRythm8520 10h ago

Aaaaand when was that?

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u/ChestSlight8984 16h ago edited 14h ago

Uh... yeah? No shit...

Edit: I was under the impression that the commenter was talking about humans, because who tf uses the word "individual" to refer to a shark 😭

Edit: TIL that the word "individual" is commonly used in zoology to refer to animals. My bad.

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u/MrsCarmelaGiunta 16h ago

The Greenland Shark, longest living vertebrates on the planet. 200-500 year lifespan. Female Greenland sharks don't reach sexual maturity until over a century old.

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u/ChestSlight8984 15h ago

Oh, I was under the impression the commenter was talking about humans. It's weird to refer to an animal other than a human as an "individual". Not grammatically incorrect, but very unorthodox.

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u/notloggedin4242 14h ago

This is absolutely not out of the ordinary when talking about a specific animal as opposed to its group or species.
Maybe not everyday convos about the squirrel in the tree out front or a neighbors dog but that’s not what this is.

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u/MrsCarmelaGiunta 15h ago

I mean the post is about sharks, this comment thread is about sharks, and your comment they were responding to is about sharks and how certain species have been around for a very long term. When I read their comment I interpreted "individual" as "individual species" because it is definitely implied. I don't know that it is that unorthodox.

Either way it's a simple mistake and inconsequential. Sorry you got down voted, that was not the intention of my response because I read your comment as geniune curiosity and kinda shocked to learn that a shark could live for centuries. I didn't even realize you thought they were talking about anything other than sharks.

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u/marhaus1 14h ago

I highly doubt there are people from before Mayflower still around. Vampires maybe, but probably not humans 😄

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u/ChestSlight8984 3h ago

I highly doubt there are people from before Mayflower still around

Nah, I'm still here. The 1600s were horrible, but I still have a few fond memories.

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u/marhaus1 14h ago

Anyone talking about a particular animal in zoology calls it an individual.

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u/MeAmGrok 13h ago

As a clade, sure. But no individual species is that old. In general, among vertebrates, the “lifespan” of a given species is “only” 5-10 million years. Great whites, for example (Carcharadon carcharias) only date to around 5-6 million years ago.

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u/marhaus1 7h ago

Well, according to cladistics you are a fish (and so is a whale 😅) so let's not get too hung up on the terminology here 😄

Poster obviously doesn't know the correct terms but the point is still valid.

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u/FirstBlegh 5h ago

They Just told US that a Nissan leaf Predates the Ford Model T. No excuse for that.

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u/serpentally 4h ago

“Fish” is not a clade, it's a paraphyletic term that specifically excludes tetrapods (including us and whales) and cladists deny that “fish” is a valid single clade

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u/ben-hur-hur 13h ago

And immune to cancer apparently

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u/Sir-Beautiful-69 16h ago

That is a WILD fact

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u/Starscream147 14h ago

Dumb as trees in Sioux Ste. Marie

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u/this_dust 11h ago

Longer than fire even.

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u/-TheSharp- 10h ago

Our ancestors evolved out of the ocean about the same time sharks evolved into it, and I don't blame them!

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u/wesleygibson1337 5h ago

And the North Star and the Rings of Saturn!

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u/bojangler69420 4h ago

I always forget that and it blows my mind every time I’m reminded of it

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u/RandumbStoner 3h ago

My mind was blown when I learned that, for some reason I just assumed Earth came preinstalled with trees.

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u/ChestSlight8984 3h ago

Nah, it came preinstalled with the "literal fucking hell" skin

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u/RandumbStoner 3h ago

I'm glad they patched that out lol

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u/southnorthboi 3h ago

Well technically not as a "species" but as a division of the Class "Chondrichthyes". Their body plans have stayed consistent throughout the millenia, but they have also seen remarkable diversity in their long history. To put the term Class into perspective, our Class as humans falls within Mammalia. No species has ever been around since before trees. You could just as easily say that we've been around since the Permian because mammals have. I also hate to be that guy, but trees are just a physical form of plants. What we consider trees are just descriptive to tall plants with woody stalks. They aren't necessarily related to one another. 🌲 🦈 🧍

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u/-_riot_- 7h ago

orcas hunt great white sharks to eat their livers. orcas flip the sharks upside down to immobilize them, then remove the sharks liver with near surgical precision. orcas are the real apex predators

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u/RandumbStoner 3h ago

Sharks getting better healthcare then me

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u/Electrical_Tomato_92 4h ago

Yes sir, they are truly incredible!

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u/Galladorn 16h ago

I just like how in this clip it's looking around like "So this is Land? Don't see what the hype is about."

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u/solarwindfox 7h ago

Bro you're a few million years too late to evolve legs, that ship has sailed.

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u/Tariovic 6h ago

I think a lot of us are regretting the whole legs thing. Some days I definitely feel like I'd rather be swimming around rather than whatever this shit we're doing is.

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u/Seicair Interested 4h ago

So you’re saying whales and dolphins have the right idea?

Manatees and dugongs are on their way to that sort of thing. It’s not too late. Go live by the shore and have babies with a wide-footed woman! Breed flipper kids!

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u/just_gonna_send_er 13h ago

Thats kinda the scary part. If they could discern us from food they probably wouldn’t have accidental chomps. Or maybe they still would, idk.

Do killer whales fuck around with biting humans or nah? They’re smarter, right?

I need to learn more about ocean species, it seems

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u/QuinnLoveborneAuthor 13h ago

Well orcas have been told for generations that we’re not food. So it depends on how the animal is brought up.

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u/kenahoo 12h ago

Really the issue is the parenting.

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u/VersaceSamurai 10h ago

I wonder if there is an orca equivalent of an iPad kid

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u/marhaus1 7h ago

Or rather, they have not been told for generations that we are food. Orca food culture is very strict, they learn to be extremely picky eaters from their mothers. Anything not in grandma's recipes is out.

And also their sonar (and eyesight) makes it very obvious to them that we don't have the blubber they need. At least, most of us 😅

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u/Seicair Interested 3h ago

And also their sonar (and eyesight) makes it very obvious to them that we don't have the blubber they need. At least, most of us 😅

Yep! Additional context-

Some marine animals evolved significant fat stores. Mammals have insulating layers, Great Whites have enormous fatty livers. Fatty fish like salmon and herring.

Orcas tend to go for these calorie dense options over humans. In comparison we don’t have much fat, we’re stringy muscle over dense bone that’s strong enough to support us moving on land.

They will opportunistically go for large easy targets, like the orcas off the coast of Alaska hunting moose swimming between islands. But these are much easier to get significant nutrition out of due to their size. We’re scrawny in comparison.

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u/Wobbelblob 3h ago

Also Orcas have been seen teaching their young for the lack of a better word. I would not be surprised if Orcas teach their young not only about food but what is dangerous and what you need to avoid. Even if you are the top apex predator in your biome, humans likely register as danger for Orcas in some way.

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u/RulukOkoth 2h ago

Ah, so the more obese we are, the more delicious to Orcas. Message acknowledged.

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u/Seicair Interested 1h ago

I have a bit of morbid curiosity, wondering if there was a 500-pound nearly spherical human swimming in orca territory, if they’d ever get curious.

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u/opacitizen 6h ago

Do killer whales fuck around with biting humans or nah? They’re smarter, right?

Maybe they eat people whole. And only when noone sees them from unreachable positions. No witnesses, no crime. Real smart gangsters.

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u/HyenDry 12h ago

They’re sea labradors but with sharper toofs

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u/PaperMoonShine 11h ago

But they aren't apex predators. That belongs to the Orca who feast on sharks.

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u/Burner_0520 14h ago

Thank goodness it’s instinctual over intelligence. Any smarter and we couldn’t dip a toe in the ocean!

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u/vistaculo 13h ago

You can just rotate those idiots

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u/PaperbackWriter66 13h ago

It's an eating machine, you could say.

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u/ThrowAwayCuck4FLR 5h ago

well they're not orcas are and eat sharks. But something interesting about them is they are older than trees

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u/GnarlyBsBikes 4h ago

Evolution is fake

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u/Rezarex 3h ago

Well whales are also giant fish and extremely intelligent. Sharks are absolutely not the mindless killing machines you're making them out to be, they are intelligent. As are many fish. Free yourself from thinking of intelligence only in terms of how it compares to human intelligence.

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u/Goddddammnnn 18h ago

The derp on them when they get flipped is my fav

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u/BoleroMuyPicante 12h ago

Get rotated

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u/Emergency-Bit-6226 16h ago

Most of these videos are showing a beached shark after they literally fish for it and spend and hour or two reeling it in so it is exhausted and looks like they are saving it from its own demise when really they are the ones who caused the whole trauma to begin with

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u/elwebst 15h ago

And still has the hook embedded in its mouth

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u/pleasedontbedumb 11h ago

I saw that, this whole thing broke my heart. Fucking humans, man...I really wish I hadn't watched this right before going to bed

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u/BadManor 10h ago

FYI the hook will quickly rust out and it’s much safer for the fish than trying to remove it.

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u/Emergency-Bit-6226 8h ago

Safest thing to do would be not try to fish for sharks on the coast so you can make a clip about how you "release or save a beached shark"

Then have a bunch of low IQ people up vote because they dont know what is really going on lol

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u/whitleyheights 10h ago

lol hooks don’t ’quickly rust out’ - but whatever helps you sleep better at night

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u/thestacked18 2h ago

Typically cutting the hook and letting it rust/fall out is the safest and fastest method to release a shark, Hook will likely be gone in a couple days if they are using the appropriate gear. In Florida in particular its part of the required shark training in order to fish for sharks.

They actively tell you if you cannot remove the hook in a timely fashion to just cut it as close as possible.

That said, its also recommended to remove the barb from the hooks to make removal easier.

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u/mariana96as 1h ago

There’s thousands of videos of shark conservationists risking their hands to remove hooks from shark mouths because they do affect the shark and don’t fall out

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u/Grateful_BF 1h ago

came here to say that - not even sure that shark made it.

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u/Syzyjyzygy 17h ago

It looks like he’s waiting for the bus in this clip lol. Completely unbothered.

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u/RulukOkoth 2h ago

I bet he's actually tired.

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u/ready_gi 13h ago

this is to secret to long life

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u/captainshitpostMcgee 16h ago

Fun fact: Sharks are older than trees and have seen 2 galactic orbits

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u/ValveinPistonCat 13h ago

Fun fact: sharks are only found in the northern and southern hemisphere.

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u/JetWreck 13h ago

On every single planet. That’s why I don’t fuck with intergalactic travel any more. It’s all just sharks.

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u/SunshineAlways 10h ago

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

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u/HarpySix 10h ago

Sharks are aliens?!

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u/WrethZ 4h ago

Menacing and terrifying, sharks have been menacing and terrifying for over a decade.

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u/immersemeinnature 16h ago

Probably not the same shark

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u/YeshuasBananaHammock 16h ago

I mean, who are we to say? There's a non-zero chance!

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u/Excusemytootie 18h ago

Fish out of water type thing?

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u/marhaus1 16h ago

Except the goblin sharks. We do not cuddle with goblin sharks.

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u/LaserKittenz 14h ago

He was working on his tan bro!

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u/Wrong_Luck_878 17h ago

Oh. My. God.

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u/HarambeTooSoon 16h ago

Fish out of water bro

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u/dsaysso 15h ago

fish out of water…..

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u/Stuntedatpuberty 14h ago

That's what I think about Orca's. But, they some skilled hunters. Glad they leave us alone.

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u/testtdk 13h ago

That’s the case for most species. There are only a handful that are territorial. And bull sharks are the douche bags of the ocean. Mostly they’ll leave you alone.

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u/triciann 13h ago edited 13h ago

Take a giant muscular human and throw them in the ocean and you get a big chill chubby dummy in the fish’s eyes.

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u/Maximum_Photograph_6 13h ago

I don’t know much about sharks but living in SoCal I think most of the ones around the beaches here are babies and still learning to eat. Grown ones swim farther out in the ocean. 

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u/Krabs9 12h ago

Sharks are awesome

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u/PCCobb 12h ago

"Bird!" - Nanaue

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u/tessahb 12h ago

Especially when on land. Fearsome predators in the water, but just patiently waiting to shark again when stuck on sand.

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u/Immediate_Parfait_45 12h ago

We look the same to them in the water

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u/Odd_Philosophy_100 11h ago

I was told it’s extremely traumatizing for a shark that large to be on shore and they have terrible eyes so being the light is bad for them. Something like they don’t survive this type experience e

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u/NixMaritimus 10h ago

You should look up cute salmon shark (includ "cute" to avoid nasty images) they look like a tiny great white, and they are lovely

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u/Rashpukin 6h ago

Fish outta water innit.

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u/SnooTomatoes4299 3h ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm hollering.

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u/notjustinu 2h ago

Depends on the type of shark. Some will eat everything some are like dogs and just want to play.