AfterDark
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It's not polite to point. You were admonished.
You thought Nurse sharks were docile?!
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It's not polite to point. You were admonished.
LOL no doubt
arcticat99
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its no different than any wild animal ,they are opportunistic and will take an easy meal especially if older or weaker ,people feed bears and think its cute but once they get a taste of an easy meal they keep coming back and then are tagged a nuisance and once that happens they are usually destroyed and then the funny thing people start crying for the animal on what they caused the problem in the first place,ive been goose hunting where coyotes hang around waiting for you to drop one so they can steal a free lunch
I'm not talking in a general sense about aggressiveness by animals in nature. I'm referring to the specific scenario stated where a nurse shark lunched on some lobsters that were 15' away from the diver. Aggressive behavior usually is directed towards someone or something. I didn't see anything in the story about the nurse exhibiting any behavior other than seeing a free lunch and taking advantage of it. Predatory, maybe, but I don't think predatory implies aggression, but that could be argued too.
I guess the lobsters' view may be different
but then we'd have to label everyone at Golden Corral as predatory and aggressive.
AfterDark
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I'm not talking in a general sense about aggressiveness by animals in nature. I'm referring to the specific scenario stated where a nurse shark lunched on some lobsters that were 15' away from the diver. Aggressive behavior usually is directed towards someone or something. I didn't see anything in the story about the nurse exhibiting any behavior other than seeing a free lunch and taking advantage of it. Predatory, maybe, but I don't think predatory implies aggression, but that could be argued too.
I guess the lobsters' view may be different
If the shark wasn't aggressive it wouldn't have eaten the lobsters. It was its natural aggressiveness that enabled it to attack and eat its meal.
What makes you think we are not? IMO there are no more aggressive or greater predators than humans. Just because some of us don't kill our prey ourselves doesn't change a thing. Those that do use tools to do the killing. Some just kill for the "sport".
I mentioned my 6lb dog chasing bigger dogs, people laugh and thinks it's cute. If he was 60lb he'd be called aggressive and someone would call the cops.
Nick Steele
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seeker242
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And still do as that was a pretty docile "attack" if you could even call it that!
Had similar situation in the Florida Keys. Nurse shark was aggressive about my lion fish. I figure if you are hunting and dangling dead or injured fish off your body, you are kind of fishing for bigger fish.
That guy should be ashamed for taking such a small hog fish too.
That guy should be ashamed for taking such a small hog fish too.
maj2
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A nurse shark played a prominent role for a 2006 Darwin Award nominee: At-Risk Survivor: Shark Kiss
Since the diver in that story was not actually removed from the gene pool, he did not actually qualify for a Darwin Award. When I first read this years ago, it reinforced not only everything I knew about not molesting the wildlife, but also that even usually "docile" animals will defend themselves when they feel threatened.
Since the diver in that story was not actually removed from the gene pool, he did not actually qualify for a Darwin Award. When I first read this years ago, it reinforced not only everything I knew about not molesting the wildlife, but also that even usually "docile" animals will defend themselves when they feel threatened.
BB`
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As Macado said I have had an aggressive meeting with one in Cozumel.
3 people in our group had spears and one had just gotten a lionfish and fed it to a waiting scavenger.
Moments later the shark showed up and repeated rammed the 3 of us who had spears and ignored the rest of the divers entirely.
Thinking back... I think I was using Macado's spear that day so it must be his fault.
3 people in our group had spears and one had just gotten a lionfish and fed it to a waiting scavenger.
Moments later the shark showed up and repeated rammed the 3 of us who had spears and ignored the rest of the divers entirely.
Thinking back... I think I was using Macado's spear that day so it must be his fault.
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