• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Obviously this is unrealistic and intended to be unrealistic, but it reinforces the negative and false idea that sharks like to eat humans

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      3 months ago

      Won’t someone please think of the sharks??

      No, seriously. Quit killing them.

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        3 months ago

        No, they like actually don’t.

        The shark attacks on record have happened because for some reason or other the animal mistook the human for a prey species, or was provoked in some way. And even then, statistically speaking, shark-on-human attacks basically don’t happen.

        In actuality, sharks will generally just ignore human swimmers and divers. Most of the time we neither look nor smell like food to them.