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I heard the exact same from a shark expert in the Great Barrier Reef. Rather than using a cage or anything we'd normally associate with shark diving, he puts a
by deeringc 6y ago
I heard the exact same from a shark expert in the Great Barrier Reef. Rather than using a cage or anything we'd normally associate with shark diving, he puts a set of googly eyes on the back of his head and had been safely shark diving professionally for 2 decades.
- slim 6y agoI don't think sharks have the same cognitive capacities as felines plus felines imply a lot of things about their prey when they do this like : there are only two eyes, facing the same direction, prey can only move in 2d etc... which are not true under water
- oopsiforgot7 6y agoDid you ever hear the tragedy of Vitaly Nikolayenko? "He spent 33 years living with the brown bears (Ursus arctos) native to the Kamchatka peninsula (...) For over 20 years, Nikolayenko followed an enormous male he named Dobrynya, forming such an easy bond that the bear would often curl up to sleep just a few feet from him." Eventually he died of a bear mauling. Moral of the story: it works until it doesn't.
- JackFr 6y ago"True Stories of Survivorship Bias"
- vecter 6y agoDid that bear maul him though?
- Udik 6y ago> Eventually he died of a bear mauling Wow, same year and two months later than Timothy Treadwell, "Grizzly Man". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell
- dboreham 6y agoSee also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Treadwell
- duck 6y agoTo save someone the search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Nikolayenko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Nikolayenko
- m463 6y agoI listen to Joe Rogan podcasts and he always mentions bears being very different than people think. He said they do all kinds of terrible things, even their own kind. (think how much food a large bear has to eat to stay alive)
- jacobwilliamroy 6y agoKeep in mind the best shark experts have no idea how sharks reproduce.
- limomium 6y agoI wouldn't call this "no idea" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark#Reproduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark#Reproduction
- jacobwilliamroy 6y agoLooks like 9 paragraphs to me. For comparison, we have MRI scans of human beings orgasming. Most of what we know about wild shark reproduction comes from observing a single population of nurse sharks living in the Dry Tortugas. That's a single population, of a single species, in one place on earth, at one time of year (summer). That's about it.