• Noble Shift
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    • Dwemthy (he/him)
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      265 months ago

      Nurse sharks are friendly? The things I remember about them from my childhood book on sharks are: they sleep in big piles on the ocean floor, their eggs are like weird sacks, and they latch on after biting and will not let go

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        They’re little sea puppies that are perfectly happy to cruise around while you swim with them. At least that’s the grey nurse sharks we get in aus. The ones you’re describing sound more like wobbegongs or similar. The grey nurses need to be in highly oxygenated water.

        Grey nurses also used to have a rep as “man eaters” but that was just because of how they looked,not any actual attacks

        • @MutilationWave
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          45 months ago

          I was able to pet a bunch of them and huge stingrays off of Belize while snorkeling. The boat I was on tossed a bunch of chum and then five minutes later we jumped in. They were all so chill with full bellies.

        • @Bytemeister
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          35 months ago

          Grey Nurse Shark in Australia is a Sand-Tiger in the rest of the world.

        • @[email protected]
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          45 months ago

          Pretty good sharks! Agree with your post though. Saw sharks are just some cool guys.

          If you wanna love and hate sharks simultaneously, watch My Octopus Teacher. Incredible documentary of nature happening, and there’s some heady shark action on top of the best octopus character study I’ve ever seen.

      • @Bytemeister
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        45 months ago

        Oceanic white tips? 10ft long roided out aquatic honeybadger that can smell your fear from 40 miles away…and it has nothing better to do today.