The Shark in Jaws Did Nothing Wrong - An Ecological Video Essay
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
- Please enjoy my lengthy marine musings on the cultural and ecological impact the 1975 thriller film "Jaws" has had on the survival of sharks and the health of our oceans and fish. Get ready to learn a bunch about White Sharks and how in reality they are not the villains often portray them as, but the victims. Hope you enjoy!
Special Thanks to:
Dr. Christopher L. Pepin-Neff
Dr. Kady Lyons
Dr. David Shiffman
Citations:
Lowe, C. G., Wetherbee, B. M., Crow, G. L., & Tester, A. L. (1996). Ontogenetic dietary shifts and feeding behavior of the tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier, in Hawaiian waters. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 47(2), 203-211. doi: 10.1007/bf00005044
Dicken, M. L., Hussey, N. E., Christiansen, H. M., Smale, M. J., Nkabi, N., Cliff, G., & Wintner, S. P. (2017). Diet and trophic ecology of the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) from South African waters. Plos One, 12(6). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177897
Curtis, T. H., Mccandless, C. T., Carlson, J. K., Skomal, G. B., Kohler, N. E., Natanson, L. J., … Pratt, H. L. (2014). Seasonal Distribution and Historic Trends in Abundance of White Sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, in the Western North Atlantic Ocean. PLoS ONE, 9(6). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099240
Ceballos, G., Ehrlich, P. R., Barnosky, A. D., García, A., Pringle, R. M., & Palmer, T. M. (2015, June 19). Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction. Retrieved from www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Roff, G., Brown, C. J., Priest, M. A., & Mumby, P. J. (2018). Decline of coastal apex shark populations over the past half century. Communications Biology, 1(1). doi: 10.1038/s42003-018-0233-1
Ferretti, F., Worm, B., Britten, G. L., Heithaus, M. R., & Lotze, H. K. (2010). Patterns and ecosystem consequences of shark declines in the ocean. Ecology Letters. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01489.x
Steffen, W., Broadgate, W., Deutsch, L., Gaffney, O., & Ludwig, C. (2015). The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration. The Anthropocene Review, 2(1), 81-98. doi: 10.1177/2053019614564785
Background music:
“Precipice”, “An Evening A Lifetime”, “Looked Back Saw Nothing”, “Not Without the Rest”, “Life in Romance” by Twin Musicom (twinmusicom.org)
Clips Used:
• LEGO Movie- JAWS Part One
• Giant Great White Shar...
• Explorer - A Deeper Un...
• Hoki Trawlers
• MOVIE 3 ROUGHEY FISHIN...
• ruffy fishing 09 my fi...
• Giant Great White Shar...
• Tagging White Shark Sh...
• Meet Roxy the Tiger Shark
• Petting Sharks like Do...
Other clips used:
Jaws (1975)
Blue Water, White Death (1971)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Shin Chisiki Kaikyuu Kumagusu (2008)
Shark Conservation Organization Links:
www.sharktrust.org/
www.projectaware.org/
www.sharkadvocates.org/ - Наука та технологія
Frank Mundus was born in 1925. Not 1940 as I wrongly put in the video. My apologies, my mistake.
Hope you guys enjoyed the video nonetheless!
It is the most recent video of 2020, so I ask...
Where is the Paleontology 2019 Recap?
I was wondering how would an inteligent species evolved from non avian dinosaurs would actually look like? How their evolutionary tree would be like? How would their biology be like? What behaviors would they have? How their societies would develop? How would they comunicate? Could you make a video speculating on this subject?
P.s sorry for my broken English, not my first language.
Can you do a video about the Bloop?
Literally unwatchable now, dislike
I have to be honest, I do like Jaws but I don’t see the shark as a monster being evil because really sharks aren’t really like that, their survivors not murderers. So I just see it as being just an animal like in real life trying to survive and in its case it was just desperately hungry because its natural food supply is gone. At least around the island, But the film somewhat exaggerates it make it look more scary than in real life, if someone ever remakes the film I would like there to be more respect for the shark wiv less fear of it or at least not too much fear
"Rogue sharks" implying that sharks have an organized society from which one can go rogue.
EDIT: too many people are taking this comment literally and it's making my head hurt. it's a joke guys. i know what Trey meant.
They don't, and as such they don't go rogue
Shark(in a clown costume): we live in a society.
Of course. Have you never watched a debate in Shark Parliament? Riveting stuff.
Eh no... Rogue shark is a positive term for sharks since it means that the shark which went rogue went away from the nature of sharks(which is to not attack humans in general, debatable)
Akatsuki Sharks, The Sharkatsuki
Also don’t forget that one of the producers hated that jaws was evil and he later started a charity to stop the poaching of sharks
Thanks, Jesus!
@@bobthabuilda1525 your welcome my child
So did the author, Peter Benchley. He never forgave himself for writing Jaws and nearly causing the extinction of Great White sharks.
Omg jesus!!! Of course Jesus, I will never forget 💚🙏
That's good of them.
Quite ironic that dolphins are actually nature's biggest dickheads but they were always represented as cute and friendly while sharks as the danger fishes
I think it's mainly due to the way they look: sharks look far more dangerous than dolphins.
One got jaws, the other got flipper
@@eisgnom7383uh, both got jaws lol
@@EmilForsberg_GRYBOYou know what he meant c'mon now 😂
@@EmilForsberg_GRYBOshark teeth seem to be bigger (which isn’t rlly an excuse cause dolphins have a lot of razor sharp teeth). Dolphins also seem to look friendlier while sharks carry a neutral expression, it almost looks like they’re frowning. And via halo effect our minds tend to trust things that are more visually appealing, and thus the misconception is born
“Fiction can have real life consequences” is a statement that cannot be said enough.
Tell that to weebs
Authors of fiction can not and should not be held accountable for how the audience responds to their work.
@sergioramirez924 there's a difference between a horror movie and anime
@@JetstreamTheSexSamboth are fiction, so yeah not much of a difference.
@@JetstreamTheSexSamwhat if its a horror anime movie
I used to think Jaws was a horror, now I realize it’s a tragedy.
Oh it’s still a horror. Just not the horror you used to think it was.
Jawker
In more ways than one. Quint's obsession with killing sharks brings about his own demise, the true definition of tragedy.
Did you just reference joker "i used to think my life was tragedy but now I realize it was a comedy"?
Thanks, Gus.
I live here.
Was hunted and persecuted.
They're not cute and cuddly, but that doesn't make them not beautiful. A mountain isn't cute and cuddly, but most people think those are beautiful.
Tbh, the conservation of sharks is 100 times more important and useful than the conservation of animals like Pandas.
Pandas are dumb bears that eat bamboo, they are not predated and they don't predate, bamboo will grow regardless of their intervention. Sharks on the other hand, can be both predators and prey, act as a balance in marine life and even their wastes are useful for other fishes and animals, yet the chinese government(one of the biggest offender in shark hunting) invests millions to build dedicated facilities and try to convince some stupid Pandas to mate but ignores sharks all together -_-
@@DeadKraken That's China for you
Though I wouldn't ignore one over the other of course
Just prioritizing one slightly more than the other
@@nomad7865 Yes of course, Pandas are not completely useless in the end, no animal is, they deserve to be protected, but sharks should absolutely be prioritized imo
Sometimes I am actually cute and cuddly.
LadyKraken what is it that pandas even do???? I feel like there would be very few consequences if they went extinct, and we also would have more time and resources to focus on conservation efforts for animals that actually do things
This movie is the embodiment of why you shouldn't use movies as information
It's probably almost the only monster movie where it's considered absolutely all right to do that. Taking any other horror movie literally gets someone labeled as an idiot, but with JAWS it's just the opposite.
Except documentaries, because their supposed to be that, kinda.
Edit:Forget what I said.
You did? I use books
In all honesty, I'm still kinda afraid of the thought running into a Shark at the ocean but at the same time, there's a level of comfort knowing they'll actually leave you alone if you don't start thrashing and I wouldn't mind encountering one (with protective gear). It just sucks how they're being killed off so quickly
Nothing wrong with being slightly scared of sharks! It’s just instinct; we don’t belong in the water, thus we can’t defend ourselves at all, which creates fear. It’s just so unfortunate so many people think that this fear justifies killing sharks :(
About that “shark not attacking if you don’t thrash” part. Bull sharks exist, and can live in both freshwater and saltwater environments. Also, they have a lot of testosterone in them to the point that I highly doubt eating one wouldn’t make you fail a test for steroid use
@@nonacrina Ikr? I'm mostly just afraid of the deep water in general, especially if it's deep enough where it looks dark. I think not knowing what's lurking down there scares me more than the shark itself 😅
@kingshocker4754 DAMN. I haven't eaten Bull Shark yet, but I'll have to keep that in mind since my testosterone level's already out of balance enough 😭
@@JewelWildmoon please dont eat sharks
"The majority of times sharks wanna be left alone, and avoid humans as much as possible."
Can relate.
Well
@Scary El Primo krinj
Panthera Are you a shark?
Wait....am i a shark? Am I Kirishima? (for anyone who knows where this character is from, here's meat🍗🍖 or a cookie🍪)
dude I have shut my self is in my living room for 4 hours on end
I guess Baby Shark actually did the world a favor by making people like sharks from a young age instead of fear them
no it just makes us want to kill those singing sharks even more now its so goddamn annoying
@@chimerical8746 I'm talking about little kids who generally do like Baby Shark, not the older generations who already are killing all ths sharks
@@ryanw.4983 i dont know a single child who likes baby shark
The version I grew up with ended with a swimmer getting bit, given cpr and then dying lol it’s strange to know there were other versions of the song
If we had a lot of time we would sing about the cremation and the shark hunt
@@utopiavey nice
I remember watching a documentary about sharks that ended with shark hunting statistics when I was a kid
It actually made me cry because so many sharks were being killed yearly, monthly, weekly, even hourly
I even decided to do a project about shark conservation for school
I read so many books on sharks as a kid but I remember when I read the statistic that 100 million sharks are killed each year I ran out crying to my dad.
@@beybladerkid5489I want a kid that's like you two
same
There's this We Bare Bears episode burned into my mind about Grizz getting a role in a movie, only for the movie to be a horror movie that demonizes bears just to make a profit off of them. Dang, those We Bare Bears writers know what they're doing.
You just unlocked a forgotten memory for me 👀
Humans being terrified of sharks after seeing Jaws is like when someone gets mad at their partner because they had a dream where they were cheated on.
Too bad that happens too
Dude my mom
Was terrified of jaws when she watched it
Mind you she was like 6
So every time she heard a rumble noise
She thought it was the jaws theme
@@JavaScrapper lmao
Being terrified after seeing Jaws is perfectly understandable. Being mad and wanting to kill sharks isn’t.
@@leboi4174 Yeah it actually happens, very stupid
Of course Jaws isn't the bad guy. The mayor is.
almightytallestred if you go by the book
Practically every human character is a bad guy
Seriously all the human characters in the book are assholes
To the Point Spielberg said he rooted for the shark
From the Soil the mayer was an ass, maybe if the shark ate him he would’ve been like “okay i got what i wanted we’re cool now
I thought Billie Eilish was the bad guy.
I. Rex duh
brain bug
For certain audiences, and especially in recent times, when people seem generally more empathetic toward non-human beings/objects, I think Jaws is for sharks what "ten legs, eight broken" is for spiders. I remember crying during my first watch of this movie as a kid. My mother made me sit through it as a sort of PSA to scare me into staying away from the beach (I always wanted to go, she didn't like the "hanging out with your kids" aspect of parenting, this was normal behavior), I felt *so bad* for the shark. I hated seeing people cheering on the poor creature's demise and demonizing it by projecting human traits and motivations on something non-human. It was the first time I realized how entitled to the world people are.
People aren't more empathetic towards non-humans, that's ridiculous. Humans have an instinct to kill anything that isn't 'one of them'. If dragons and elves existed there's no reason humans wouldn't farm them for food, cut them up for science or kill them for sport.
My take from Nemo was that the scene was based on behavior some species display during feeding frenzy: the snout moves up, the eyes roll back, and they go nuts. I read about it in a book that spoke of how sharks are vital to the sea, only a few species attack humans, most are accidents or result of curiosity, and that we’ve done far worse to them with pollution, overhunting, and things such as shark fin soup.
I wonder if shark fin poachers realize that sharks pee through their skin. It helps prevent the sharks from drying out in the salty ocean. And when they die, the urea makes sharks taste & smell like ammonia🤢.
And to top it all, shark fin soup has no nutritional value whatsoever.
Syrathdo
I don't like seafood especially Shark Fin Soup and I don't like soup in general.
Sharks are my favorite sea animals
"Shark infested waters" its like saying human infested houses
They are just trying to check us out.
with the difference that we actually are everywhere
theyre not even invasive lmao. humans are the most invasive species
@@randomclips1341 we kinda dont deserve that title yet but about to
@@kopi6850 I mean we basically took over anything that can be taken and will take more.
"It's as if God created the Devil and gave him jaws"
So, the 'actual' Devil has no jaws whatsoever? D: poor guy
It's actually more of a cloaca.
Maybe he's like one of those jawless fish.
*Goes into Obsessively Technological Mode*
Well, if we were being absolutely literal, angels in Abrahamic religions are purely spiritual beings that lack any physical bodies. Any instances of angels looking like people is pretty much assumed to be them appearing in “a form you are comfortable with”, so that guys seeing their apparitions won’t be overwhelmed with terror Lovecraft-style, among other reasons. So if angels do not actually have bodies, then I guess the Devil does not have jaws.
*Returns to Normal Mode*
Yeah, it’s bad enough that Satan has to deal with Saddam Hussein as his domineering ex-boyfriend, the job of cleaning up the Canadian Devil’s mess in the gaming industry, and getting whooped by ManBearPig, but now it turns out he never even had a mouth to begin with. 😢
Must be a lamprey
Hello mister trey can you make video about fresh fish
2 years on and whenever I repeat the line "These great leviathans are all gone now, we ate them." in my head I feel this deep, unspeakable sense of emptiness and grief for something I never knew I had. It shakes me to my fucking core every single time
Human's treatment of life on this planet fucking sickens me deeply, I can't express at all the feeling I get, just despair, anger, hatred, grief, sadness and an over whelming desire to rid the plant of humans.
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@@rianmacdonald9454I feel this dude…
People really need to stop thinking of ANY animal as "Evil". That's such a human concept. Animals such as sharks, snakes, crocodiles, spiders -- the "creepy" ones -- aren't capable of like, malicious intent. I mean, be afraid, be wary, be creeped out, but at the end of the day, they're just trying to live.
Sicksalt
The only animals I'm scared of are Spiders Daddy Longlegs Spiders Cockroaches and Mosquito Hawks I like the baby ones better though
I prefer the predator animals though.
I like Wolves Foxes Coyotes Hyenas Hedgehogs Raccoons Crocodiles Alligators Snakes Sharks Rats and Dogs.
@@katelynthewhitewerewolf6376 Hyenas and crocodiles are definitely overhated. They're two of my favorites :)
@@katelynthewhitewerewolf6376 If it’s any consolation daddy long legs are completely harmless to humans. Whenever I’m carrying one the largest concern is not accidentally damaging one of their legs.
@@scootermcpeanuts6699
I know Daddy Longlegs are completely harmless my mom told me that and that they're too small to bite someone but it's their long legs tiny bodies and the way they move that freaks me out.
@@sicksalt7765
Yeah and The Donkey Kong Series is how I got into loving Crocodiles
Sharks were called "sea dogs" a long time ago since they didn’t attack boats or humans...
That's actually really wholesome tho
They actually stil are in the countries from the Balkans
but they do attack humans though
@@professorpalpatine5202 Only when they mistake us for seals or other prey, like when we’re on a surfboard or something.
They’re curious about everything that might be food but they don’t have hands so they bite. They don’t usually finish eating humans because they realize we aren’t great for food. Too bony and not enough fat, and we probably taste gross.
Now seals are the sea doggos
One of the best portrayals of sharks in media is that episode of spongebob where he’s a lifeguard and tells everyone to get out of goo lagoon because there are sharks in there, only for him to be called out by this shark dad.
That’s because SpongeBob was made by a marine biologist.
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also that one episode of wild kratts
"Hey, that's my family you're talking about!"
@@dataexpunged4784
Uh SEA MONSTER
I like SpongeBob and there's also the episode Clams which is a parody of Jaws and it's funny.
My grandfather used to be a life saver in my local beach, he swam several times near Sharks by accident, most of them ignored him, one them got kind of curious and swam next to him, he told me and scratched him on the side when they bumped each other swimming and that was it, the shark swam away.
There has been recently videos on my city where they can see sharks eating people, which turned out, those people were already dead and dumped in the water. I'm guessing some mafia wanted to disappear the bodies using Sharks to delete them.
Even as shark ate several dead humans from unknown origins, shark attacks are extremely rare in my hometown.
My elementary school teacher liked diving on her spare time (she was really cool) and I remember she had a shark bite on her leg, though it was from a small shark. Yet she never demonized the shark nor referred to the incident as an "attack"... ever. She wasn't afraid of the ocean and still went diving even after that.
From her I learned to respect these creatures (I mean, if for any reason they decide to bite you, they certainly can) but they are far from being the killing machines Hollywood depicts them as.
I don't get people who are freaked out when animals act like... animals. "Ooooh a shark could kill you!" Well so could a mosquito, Brandon
It's even more ludicrous when they expect "cute and cuddly" animals to be tame, and not claw or bite when you get too close or invasive. A kangaroo for instance is more likely to tear your face off than a shark.
@@TheAngelOfTheBottomlessPit I would if I were in a shark cage. The equivalent of course to getting close to roos in a sanctuary, where they are more accustomed to people. But I wouldn't go out of my way to approach either in more open conditions; sharks for obvious reasons, also I'm not a trained diver, and roos because they're just as likely to attack or defend themselves from an intruder, even if they are in a suburban area.
More are killed are by other people.
@@georgeheilman885 One of my life goals is to go swimming with sharks without a cage.
ShadeSlayer1911 Torn between saying “admirable” or “are you crazy?”! Lol Good luck though, I hope you get to do it and that it’s an amazing experience. Much love. 💕🐝 #Bee Kind
Fun fact: lemon sharks will get jealous if a diver focuses their attention onto another shark
They recognize people and likewise recognize their favorite divers like how our pets recognize us lol so cute to see them get jealous when their favorite divers gives their attention to another sharks other than them.
That’s actually cute
@@bigboi7020 i want to comment something but it got deleted damn
@@bigboi7020 why?
@@bigboi7020 But no need too. I hope you will never see one in your life anyway.
its kind of hilarious to me that after 4 people got attacked by a shark the solution was to try and hunt it down rather than just * *not going in the water anymore* *
To be fair, that was the first idea. It wasn't until a grieving mother put out a bounty that the shark started to get hunted.
If that piece of shit mayor actually decided to go along with it and close the beaches maybe that could have worked, but he was too greedy. In the book, they talk about how the town begins to die without the summer dollars, but I was kind of glad they left that out of the movie, because in the end the mayor is the real villain.
@@theactualmasterbeef
Would've been better if the mom was the one who got eaten instead of the boy while he's the one who gets to safety but he blames the mayor for his mom's death. Or better have him survive but injured and in the hospital for a while until he recovers from his injury
It's usually better when it happens to the parents or parent.
Honestly if a remake happens this idea needs to be used.
I wouldn't mind Alex Kintner getting a bigger role where he gets bitten but survives and is rushed to the hospital for treatment.
When you realize best representation of sharks in cinema are in sharkboy and lavagirl
MY EYES ARE BURNING
I hate what you said but you're right
No fucking way, omg💀
"hey"
I like to imagine that, in an alternate reality, they used a seal instead of a shark. Just think how hilarious that would be
uwu
• snowy • no
All I can think of is a cute chonky seal yelling "eeeeeggggg" at the top of its lungs, desperately trying to be scary.
If it s a sea leopard that Can be good
Flippers
Jaws had another horrible consequence:
Sharknado
I need to say one thing...
*that movie is terrible and shouldn’t be mentioned*
that movie was actually good, in a funny, dumb way but the sequels were terrible in a its bad in a bad way.
Sharknado 🤦♂️😩
Don't forget Jaws 3 and Jaws: The Revenge
Sharknado is supposed to be a comedy, it's not supposed to strike fear into the hearts of the people like Jaws
I heard that if a shark is curious to check you out you can simply push it's head away from you or just push it into a different direction if you're underwater
Gru showed that you can punch a shark if it gets aggressive
@@aurorapaisley7453 no
spin em around
@@aurorapaisley7453 you can punch anything if it gets aggressive. It's not a very good idea, but you can.
@@aurorapaisley7453it's the current practice promoted to avoid being bitten, is to grab the gills or eyes. The nose isn't the best place to hit & you could easily lose an arm, hand or fingers if missed. Too close to the teeth.
The term "waste fish" made me angrier than any shark could ever be.
"Shark infested waters"
Aha yes, go into a creature's habitat and see many of them and call it infested by it oh yes. Quite the reasonable thing to do.
Is like going to a lion territory and get mad because they attack you
@@despinasgarden.4100 As a Muppet Comedian once said, "Paddle up to a colony of seals & wiggle your ass in the water like a slutty little orderv. Complain when you get munched."
If they where a invasive species, and quickly reproducing, taking by storm the environment, then would be right... The same can't be said about humans (Minus the quick reproducing)...
If anything’s infesting the waters it’s humans
someone once told me "dont go sit on the grass if you dont want ants at your picnics"
Imagine hunting sharks because of a movie. That’s like hunting aliens because of Independence Day
Hm, or maybe this is why the aliens always seem to be out for our blood. One of the aliens made an acclaimed blockbuster horror film, about a human going on a killing spree across their home world, and the planet’s terrified citizens took it way too seriously.
Killing owls because of spike
Killing children because of "children of the corn"
Independence day? No, War of the worlds
People were hunting sharks without Jaws. Its just that nobody cared. The record rod and reel great white was taken in 1959.
Those "grey nurse sharks" are actually Sand Tiger Sharks. That's my only issue with this video essay, as I've reached enough of a level of obsession with sharks to identify roughly over a dozen species by a slight glance alone, much to my sister's dismay whenever we're at the museum giftshop looking at the little plastic shark figurines. Other than that little nitpick, this video essay is just what I need to help me explain to people that sharks are not the vicious monsters the media likes to portray them as!
Grey Nurse Shark is an alternative term for Sand Tiger Shark
Pretty embarassing to brag about your shark identification skills and not know theyre two different names for the same animal. Thats my only issue with this comment😝
You’re not going to change anyones opinion on sharks because of how pompous and “better than thou” you come off about the topic. Your superiority complex about the subject kills the fun of the topic. Annoying to learn from someone’s who bragging about how educated they are in a topic.
@@marissali61I don’t think they came off as like that at all. It’s quite relatable to be obsessed with one specific topic and then try to tell others about it but you know you’re just annoying them since most people don’t care about the niche topic no matter how much you want them to lol
@@luckyblockyoshi
They still sound kinda pompous , a bit like a small child when they brag , just that he very probably isn't a small child
I jumped in thinking I would get a very elaborate analysis of shark behavior and how the characters of the movie should have left it alone. But I left with quite the emotional dilemma and a newly formed consciousness for sharks.
Fishing industry: over fishes
Fish: disappear
Fishing industry: surprised pikachu face
I mean you're not wrong. Like it's kinda rediculous how right you are
It keeps on happening, too. You'd think sooner or later the fishing industry would catch on.
It would be more beneficial to farm them like we do with cows and pigs than trying to hunt them out in the ocean. Have a ton of water farms.
The thing is a lot of fish species CAN’T be farmed, so we have to rely on the fishing industry to not overfish
And then they continue to overfish
Shark: (does shark things)
Humans: *so you have chosen death*
El Finnle hilar
Survival of the fittest😎
Jo China
Ah yes, the most retarded ideology ever created
@@gazzy2228 its not an ideology, its the theory of evolution.
To be fair, while the shark was clearly not acting delibrately malicious, it did learn how easy prey humans were and was delibrately hunting them so yeah it did need to be hunted down.
As Finding Nemo would say: "Sharks are friends, not serial killers." Or at least I think that was the quote.
"Fish are friends, not food"
it was actually "Fish are friends, not food" but still kind of gave off the same message since it was sharks saying it.
@@shitanotosaurus
Bruce from Jaws Bruce from Finding Nemo Lenny from Shark Tale Mr Shark from The Bad Guys and others are my favorite Shark characters.
Bethany Hamilton is a great example of a person who has been “attacked” by a shark and surviving, a month after the accident she went back to the ocean. She even understands that the “attack” was an accident.
You know... if you watch jaws in reverse, it’s actually a heart warming story about a shark giving limbs to disabled people stranded in the water!😂
Humans : *Demonic Screeching*
Oh my God this comment is so underrated
Tenet moment
This isn’t your comment
@@fishcult.2506 But it is
I would like to quote Hiccup from how to train your dragon: "Everything we know about you guys is wrong." I think this single sentence perfectly suits the relationship between sharks and humans.
We aren't wrong about them, it's just that a bunch of chalk-eating idiots only know about the subject from shitty Hollywood movies.
We need a "how to train your shark" spinoff
@@jackmcslay lol
you mean how we think of every non-domesticated predatory animal.
@@pmester228 Now mate word it a bit better mate.
I remember reading the book as a kid (probably way too young), and believing firmly that the book portrayed the mayor as the real villain, and was baffled with everyone that was suddenly so scared of sharks afterwards. Even after watching the movie as a teen, I still thought the focus was always that the mayor was the bad guy, and to be a lot more wary of how people in charge handle dangerous situations.
The shark was just an animal that was dangerous to people, but it was the mayor who made the decision not to adapt because money (through even as a kid I was fascinated with the reason why, like trying to keep businesses open, trying to keep everyone employed and being able to live there by keeping tourism open).
You know it’s funny, I showed this film to my baby sister growing up one time to get her to leave me alone since she surely wouldn’t like horror movies. Since then she’s become obsessed with sharks, she loves them and thinks they are super cool. It’s just funny to me that my sister took the exact opposite message the movie was trying to give about liking sharks.
I feel really bad for that tiger shark that was just minding its own business and then got killed for no reason
Man got framed for a murder he didn’t commit
@@revthescatman137 f in the chat
@@kio7320 F
@@kio7320 f
@@sheevphotography5036 f
I got nuzzled by a reef shark it was sweet and reminded of my dog
Edit:for peeps who said was it rough like sandpaper my dog is a rescue and was badly burned with it's previous owners
I want to get nuzzled lol
@@atomicconservativeskunk1094 yeah me too
Thats adorable! :D my parents have dived with sharks as well! and they just came close to get hugged and nuzzled :3 I still really wanna dive with sharks. I love them
NUZZLED!! :) HAPPY!!
I read somewhere that sharks used to be called sea dogs
As someone who grew up learning correct facts about sharks after about five years of life, I always liked the idea that the shark from Jaws was some kind of anomaly - either a massive great white potentially sick or mentally impaired so that its survival instinct was inhibited, or it was some kind of living fossil like cretoxyrhina, leptostyrax, or, as cheesy as it is, a megalodon. My own interpretation of the story has kept negative stereotypes from coloring my view of sharks, and I think it’s a legitimate strategy when trying to change peoples minds.
My personal headcanon is that it was the aquatic equivalent to the Tsavo Maneating Lions or other land predators that specifically targeted humans, in that there was some kind of debilitating condition that prevented it from hunting it's normal prey, and thus had to resort to hunting humans (and dogs, I guess) to survive.
You have quite the imagination.
Good idea but it would of been way way way too small for it to be any of those.
Imagine a bunch of sharks getting their teeth on a copy of Halloween and all gathering around to watch it, then being terrified of humans after creating a culture of all humans being soulless mysterious killers (wouldn't be wrong either)
shark week is super hit and miss. you’ve got stuff like “GREAT WHITE MURDERER” next to a mini documentary about a nature photographer who was super excited to float on a tiny raft and get an up-close photo of a shark breaching and loved sharks so much that he made everyone promise that if the shark accidentally hit him while breaching, they would never use any of the footage because he didn’t want to villainize the shark
Honestly I think the titles are misinterpreted. Keep in mind that even though great whites will try not to attack you, they will absolutely destroy the normal prey they want to eat. So the titles do work in showing how aggressive they are, but the assertion that they are even dangerous to humans is wrong.
I'm almost sure that it was on shark week I saw the guy who, when curious great whites try to chew on the propellers of the boat - surfacing a little to do so - just shoved them away by the nose. Like a dog. Going, "No no, no sweetie - you'll get hurt!" Back in like '08
And... that just changed everything for me. It planted a seed.
Because Jaws definitely ruined me. I was scared sharks would come out of _the floor_ (dammit, dad, I was like 6 - don't let your 6-year-old watch JAWS >_>) and went from loving the water to fearing it. My parents tried to calm me by saying we usually swim in _lakes_ - but my nerdy little ass just huffed and declared that the lake we often frequented was connected (very very remotely, by smaaaall waterways) to the Baltic Sea. So a bullshark could *totally* have gotten here! ...from where it normally lives.... over in the americas...
... Yeaah.
@@Reicha God, are you me? That was the exact same fear I had, except that I'm only afraid that they'll come through the bathroom floor. I think what I can blame for it (other than Jaws) are a BBC documentary (Walking With Dinosaurs : Marine Edition), which happened to have a section about the Megalodon, and a book about shark attacks throughout history and how to prevent them
When i was like seven i liked to watch the documentaries on shark week about protecting and learning about sharks. But then one year, the same year they had that stupid fake megalodons are still alive bull crap, which most sensible people knew that it was fake, they released a “documentary” about a giant great white, which by over hunting from humans likely wouldn’t have been able to get so large especially because of the fact that the shark mentioned was male, and females are larger. But basically this australian whale watching boat hit a rock and started to go down and this monster great white was actively hunting the people. There was one particularly scaring scene for me who was seven and didn’t know better where someone was on this giant raft from the coast guard and the raft and the person just shot under and the person got eaten. First of all this makes no logical or scientific sense because they said that the shark was still and lurking waiting to attack which great whites need to move to get oxygen which they mentioned in the show. So even if you didn’t know that they tell you “oh great whites have to move to live but this one is waiting still to kill people and survive.” It was basically just a modern retelling of jaws where the shark escapes. But anyway that scared me until like 3 years ago when i documented out it was fake and it made me really hate shark week.
@@Reicha- Good thing that certain production companies and cable didn't exist when you were a kid. There's a movie called _House Shark_ (no, really), and IMDb just showed me _Amityville Shark House._ You would have been traumatized for life.
Shark encounter survivor here, I can say from my down experience, as I was swimming just minding my own business when a blue shark (one of "The five man eaters") swam up to me, that they are vastly more awe inspiring than terrifying, yes, at first I almost shat myself when I had this 2 meter thing that they always told me that was a brainless killer literally swimming directly towards me, but when it turned and started watching me with those big grey eyes I noticed something special, there was something hypnotic about that fish, it wasn't scary anymore, at times it got so close that I could see the ampules of lorenzini on its snout and the teeth sneaking out of it's sad-looking mouth. A while later, as it came, it was gone, like a flash of silver appearing and disappearing in the gloom of the waters. That day changed completely my perception of sharks and I try to do the same for all the people that surround me.
Do you know what I would give to swim with a blue shark
@@jameson1239 Ikr, I don't know why people talk of them like terrifying killer machines when they are so gorgeous and relatively harmless.
I bet the shark felt the same.
So basically you saw a misunderstood monster in that blue shark’s eyes
Dude, I'd kill to have an experience like that.
My dad let me watch this movie when I was wayyyyyyyyyy too little and I've been pretty paralyzed by the sight of sharks since then. I like to try and expose myself to educational shark content when I'm feeling brave. This was a good one, thanks
I still can’t believe they ruined the reputation of sharks for a marketing campaign
Humans: Enters shark ecosystem and proceeds to decimate everything
Sharks: *Die*
Humans: These things are a threat to humans
Ha, they think Sharks are a threat when we're the threat.
Sharks: Kill an average of 8 people per year accidentally or out of self defense.
Humans: Kill over 100 million sharks each year for fin soup, and out of unjustified prejudice.
@@reddeaddude2187 Humans: Enters any animal ecosystem and proceeds to decimate everything
Any animal: Die
Humans: These things are a threat to humans
Daniel L. So a shark killing a surfer is self defense? So what a rapist is defending his privates now?
@@BARelement Are you really comparing an animal, which thinks the surfer might be a seal, and a god damn rapist? What is wrong with you?
“The majority of sharks want to be left alone, and avoid humans as much as possible”
Maybe I’m a shark
Shark to you: Comrade welcome to the Soviet Union
(I just wanted to make a history bomb reference)
You're not a shark. You're on social media, crying for attention.
I’m starting to think the same
Me too my dude. They’re some of my favorite dudes in the ocean. I especially love the Lemon/Blacktip dudes.
Hi!
it just sucks how all it takes is some bad media representation for people to completely turn on a whole species. It becomes even more apparent when you get interested in a species and all you can hear and see is disgust regarding animals you love. I have 2 rats and have been interested in snakes, sharks etc and it makes me so sad when you openly get told how your lovely pets should die. Ever since I have gotten invested in rats I wanted my own, theyre honestly very intelligent and adorable. A popular misconception is that theyre dirty animals which doesnt apply to domesticated rats at all. In fact they clean themselves almost constantly, even more than cats and will be clean as long as their cage is. They all have unique personalities and its so easy to get attached to the little fluff balls makes me sad how people can be so hateful:((
I never realized how few shark specialized scientists there are. That’s incredibly sad to me, I love sharks.
I always hated the phrase "shark infested" waters. THEY ALREADY LIVE THERE! That's cities are people infested.
The water is their home ffs ! We are the invaders !
@@loulou7963 no your misunderstanding the term its to describe a portion or area of water that has sharks. Sharks are territorial they dont just roam everywhere in the water and not all of the ocean has sharks present in it.
Probably just means it’s home to lots of sharks that roam there, just executed in a poor way.
Plus, I wouldn’t go that far, unless you’re a nihilist.
@@loulou7963 humanity is the parasites
Why do you demonize humans for existing? You people always get mad at mankind for it's existence. We do stupid things sometimes and are easily mislead by our corrupt leaders but you people hate mankind so much that I begin to wonder if you're looking at us like we're some alien species. We're part of nature too. "Artificial" and "man-made" are in our vocabulary to describe manipulated matter by humans. That doesn't mean we're not animals. Us killing other animals has no morality or "evil" ingrained in it. Just the same as sharks eating humans has no ethical question. The entire idea of ethics is retarded and you even taking a stance and hating your species is so emotionally based that it's impossible to tell if you actually want to live if we're so "damaging" to nature.
"To a Canary, a cat is a monster. We're just used to being the cat." - Henry Wu, Jurassic World, 2015
Not to mention we have the martial force to extinct every single species on our planet, including ourselves... so I mean... kind of?
Jesus Hitler wasn’t subpar to me, plus I feel like it works in this context
@@drakeclaw8872 it was sub par.
Already Black that’s your opinion, to me it was good.
@Fabian MEDINA MEDINA not really. it basically ripped off the Charles Addams quote "what is chaos for the fly is normal for the spider"
Sharks dont deserve any of the hate that they get. Theyre such interesting creatures, they usually meet humans and boats with such curiosity. How could someone say that theyre brainless?
As a Chinese person, as much as I love shark fin soup, it’s not worth it to see these incredible sea creatures vanish.
If you watch this video, it's best to stop eating shark fin soup at this point.
I never knew shark fin soup was a thing
@@unknown_8588 The fins are Poisoned
Its funny af. Cuz i bet yall don't even use the fins as the main broth. Yall just add spices to it. And i bet yall dont even eat the fin itself. Lol so whats the point?
@@mr.turbo_boost3383 Exactly, and the Sharks are being reduced one after another. Stop doing it 😤
Anime logic: the bigger the pupils are the cuter they are
Sharks: *UwU*
Collossal squids *UUwwUU*
Chomp The Great White UUwwUU
Let scwawy gweat woite bois be *UwU*
@MegalodonRage uwu
Brody: Smile you sond of a bitch!
Bruce: OwO
Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. - Cree Indian Prophecy
No
@@alexheat0678
Why no?? 🙈🤣....
Yes it can
@@amediocreguy8704 how?
@@nuralibolataev4474 with ur teeth
Interesting thought: the idea of rogue individuals comes from encounters with land animals, and even then isn't often true. Some of it is based on "rogue cats" basically a single big cat whose hunting range is overrun by humans and livestock, is driven from their territory by a rival, or has a medical ailment that prevents efficient hunting, and turns to rural villages that have high mortality rates and lots of herds. This tends to be mostly an Indian phenomenon with the massive economic disparity, constant epidemics and huge population .
In the medieval Europe this was applied to wolves: wolf packs would turn to humans as their forests were destroyed and hunt herds, with plagues causing corpse pileups that attracted scavenging, and finally the Little Ice Age making wild prey scarce while adding more human corpses to replace them. Thus we have various "Beasts", where a population of wolves in one settled area are identified as a single monstrous individual. The Beast of Gevaudan is only the most famous of them, as they've been recorded from the 14th century to the Napoleonic Wars (probably because of habitat destruction from the war and the appearances of mass animal and human graves throughout Europe)
And since the ocean disguises actual shark populations, people make the assumption that the same shark is "attacking" people and attribute mammalian traits. Sharks can't get rabies, plague and war victims don't wind up in the sea, domestic fish don't exist to replace wild populations, sharks in general have more varied diets, and humans can't really invade their territory. However, as "sea dogs" , they're given mammalian predator traits
And in case of both land and sea predators, they are anthropomorphized: there's a true hypocrisy that an animal with truly destructive predatory behavior calls other predators monsters. Sure, it's okay to let humans die passively or actively kill them in war, but when it's an animal killing them, it's a murderer that must be destroyed.
this old show called wild kratts or something had an episode where two brothers fought a freakin chef who tried to catch a shark and make shark fin soup
Wild Kratts was awesome
@@repet- yes
Average wild Kratts W
"The extinction of fish, reptiles and amphibians is largely unnoticed"- cries in Entomology
Yeah man insects and other arthropods make up most of the animal kingdom
The mainstream media can lie to you that a particular animal went extinct. It can then create a whole new animal and tell you its a recent discovery. Yet it will be a gmo creation. Thats what happened with the Snakehead. Now go ask yourself: how many of these animal species people keep being told are becoming extinct are actually extinct or even different versions of the same species? The real shark infested waters here is the mainstream media!
@@Yatukih_001 Dude I am a Biologist
@Digicraftmon the Crystal Gem and isolate intuition from unknown.
@@Yatukih_001 when you said "Different versions of the same species", it automatically shows you have no clue what your talking about or what speciation is.
Trey- Jaws did nothing wrong
*everyone liked that*
Except for galeophobes
Jaws is just a shark that isn’t scared of people and just miraculously keeps encountering humans as food
Or just plot
save for 212 individuals, but people are known to do anything just to be unique.
UncleFriis agree
jaws just isn't evil.
When I was a kid and I saw this movie for the first time, I thought the mayor was the bad guy. I didn't understand why everyone wanted to kill the shark instead of just closing the beach.
I don't understand why you wanted to close the beach instead of just killing the mayor.
@@joshuasgameplays9850
I would've gladly let Brucey eat the Mayor.
I once went on a fishing boat for a summer camp at an aquarium, It was the first time I ever saw a sunfish, it was sunning horizontally but when we got close to it, it turned it's head and stared at us. It was a truly amazing experience. I had no idea how big they got until I saw the picture of one in this video taken over 50 years ago. Great video!
Any apex predator: I'm hungry.
Humans: *HOW DARE YOU*
It's funny because humans are ALSO apex predators, and that seems to be our general consensus towards the impoverished.
@@ccggenius 😲😲😲
Apex predator:hm if i dont eat i will die
Humans: *YOU DEMON HOW COULD YOU?!?!?!*
Ccggenius12 we are not apex predators, we are off the food chain lol
@@warriorslasher_9586 We are prey for several apex predators. A bear will track you and attack, with the intention to eat you, we have three species in North America. There are several big cats around the world that will stalk, attack and eat a human. Even our coyote, when in big packs, will stalk and given half a chance attack and consume a human. In the reptile world both the Nile and saltwater crocs will take humans as prey, so will the American Alligator. The anaconda, rock pythons, and the reticulated python will take a human for dinner if they can, usually small people, like children. The only thing that keeps us alive in the bush are the firearms and other devices that we carry. I know, I have had to defend myself from the puma, black bear and coyote packs while in the bush. I ended having to kill one bear and several coyotes in defense of myself and those with me. We did not do anything to provoke the attacks other than just being there.
//es//A 70y/o Avid Outdoors Lady
the term “waste fish” just absolutely made my skin crawl. not a single animal in any ecosystem is a waste.
edit: to everyone saying things like flies and mosquitoes, just because something is considered a pest to humans doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a role in the ecosystem. we have no idea how many species would be affected if mosquitoes were wiped out.
edit 2: oh my god everyone stop arguing you’re all saying the same shit over and over again and not even adding anything to the conversation anymore. there’s not a single animal you’re mentioning that’s the “gotcha!” you think it is.
@Jonathan Jones Wait yeah. They can screw off. Fleas and ticks too.
Yes, all life is admirable. other animals are far more intelligent than we give them credit for. One day, if we don't stop, nature WILL strike back.
Except mosquitoes
Exept Humans
Jurassic World realism nature is not sentient enough to have the ability to strike back at intelligent life
I had a friend in grade school who really liked sharks, and he when I said sharks are dangerous would get super passionate about the over hunting of sharks. I’m really glad he did because now as a young woman I understand and am disgusted by the vilification of sharks who haven’t done anything other than exist. Thank you to that friend for educating me on this topic!! And thank you for the amazing video which hopefully will reach the masses of people who still think sharks are super dangerous creatures
When I was maybe 7 or 8, I saw a documentary about sharks that had footage of live sharks being thrown back into the ocean with their fins cut off. It affected me like nothing had until that point. I cried, and then I was angry. That was the first time I ever cared about something outside of my own existence, and I've been a supporter of shark conservation ever since. I wrote about it in school several times from elementary school all the way through college. I'm 38 now, and I've loved sharks all my life. Jaws played a big role in that, and so did Shark Week. Shark Week pisses me off so bad, but it would be a lie to say it didn't fuel my love of sharks when I was a kid in the 90s. I wish Discovery would turn it around.
I was once at an Aquarium and a woman who worked there was talking to a crowd about sharks. Most of the people weren't willing to accept that Sharks are friendly, but explore with their mouth like a puppy would.
She asked the crowd, "What was the worst thing to happen to sharks?", nobody answered so I stood up for her and said "The movie Jaws."
She was so surprised that someone got it. Someone understood. She neglected the crowd and started chatting to me. She admitted it's really getting to her that people don't just turn a blind eye to the hatred towards sharks, they actually support it.
Long story short, We talked for a while and decided to go on a date. Still together 2 years later.
That nice to hear! And I love sharks too
Sure Jaws was bad for sharks but Shark fin soup that does not do anything for food and nutrition is also one of the worse things to happen
@@g.b569 100% agree. Yet another reason we need to remove China from this planet
@@TheShadowNetwork. yikes
Thats so Sweet!
The author of jaws actually said that if he knew what he knows today when he wrote the book he wouldn’t have written it. Sharks are pretty cool and it’s unfortunate that I didn’t learn they weren’t monster until a few years ago
Edit: Just noticed you brought it up
More people die due to dog or rhino attacks but sharks are those "big scary monsters"
Lemon sharks befriend other lemon sharks
I'm glad you had a change of heart
@@purevessel4801 :'0
@Jiffy than people would kidnap sharks and put them in tanks and when they found out that didn't work, they'd kill 'em
Great documentary bro. As a shark enthusiast and amateur expert it's so horrible what fisheries and human consumption has done to not just the ocean but the planet.
1:58 so true, sharks are the only apex predator that we can get close to (hell there's even a video of a guy stroking a tiger shark which is adorable), I remember hearing that the author hates the impact jaws had on Sharks and how they are perceived by the media and people
People: go to shark territory to get their fins*
**In an alternate reality**
Sharks: burst down doors to kill people for their arms and legs*
Oh trust me that's already happening. Have you heard of the Cookie Cutter shark?
Not so fun fact: there is a unsolved murder case of an extra in the movie
@@sherwingonsalves8821 it wasn't confirmed it was the extra but it probably was
Ah yeah I love that junji ito manga
LANDSHARK!
Broke: "The shark hates us because it's evil!"
Woke: *"The shark hates us because we attempted to capitalize it's very existence for monterey gain and place it in an ecosystem not suitable for his special needs"*
We must stand in unison to combat the oppression of our marine proletariat allies
Sea World will be the gulag of the oppressors and not the gulag of water dwelling creatures
Reality: The shark doesn't hate anyone. It just eats.
broke woke
the shark doesn't care
Isn't that right, Dr Shark?
*monetary
Awe man! I remember hearing about this when I was in my early teens and I wrote a novel about sharks for fun based on the "Guardians of Ga'Hoole" series. A tiger shark was the main protagonist. Never got published, I wrote it on an electric typewriter for fun. But every now and then, I think about that story and how a piece of media showing sharks in a positive light could help with the overall perception of sharks.
I hope you write and finish a/the whole series of books and release to show people and the world how cool and awesome sharks are.
Nice video. Sharks are fascinating living animals, not serial killers.
Also even though hungry shark potrays sharks as ravenous eating machines, they actually bring awareness to finning. You can even smash finning boats in game to get an item that gives you an energy boost
I've always hated the way the movie industry anthropomorphizes animals, either making them like sweet humans or evil demons. Neither is true. It's a lie, typical of much that "hollywood" produces.
Humans are narcissistic, they only help creatures who they see themselves in. Such as if they see if the animals has human qualities or human like intelligence, not knowing that other animals perceive the world differently due to different adaptations.
SmokeRingsPipeDreams so you mainly hate movies that make animals bad guys?
Get 420
Humans love to project like that.
Like me = Good
Not like me = Bad
So similar that it’s really striking = Inferior primitive version of me (How humans used to view monkeys and apes)
It’s true that some animals are more similar to humans than others, but that isn’t related to how „good“ or „evil“ they are.
@@rainpooper7088 Since good and evil are human inventions, of course something being good or evil is reliant on how humans perceive them.
That's call entertainment if an animal in a movie or book doesnt perform an action other than running away from a human (which is what they would do in real life depending on the animal and situation) the movie would be other and or boring.
This makes me really appreciate the fact that the video game Abzu has the great white shark being depicted as sort of the spirit of the ocean that guides you throughout the game. So many other games would've chosen a dolphin or other whale instead, but Abzu chose a massive shark.
C;
C/
I LOVE ABZU SO MUCH ITS SO GOOD
GENUINELY MAKES SENSE THAT A SHARK IS THE SPIRIT OF THE OCEAN
The things that hurt u in abzu are sea mines as well, really shows sharks ina good way
Ty I'll check it out
i hate when signs on the beach saying " shark infested waters" its not that its infested, thats were they live
Fun fact: there are more people that claim they have seen the logness monster than people that have seen a living basking shark
loch ness btw :)
"Sharks are really boring" yea... sometimes I want to be like a shark, just floating in the water minding my own bussiness
Just don't wound up in the wrong ocean because dolphins are like black people (I'm gonna get cancelled for this) they travel with groups
@@daddydiesel2496 the comment you made does not concern me, your username does 😂
@@daddydiesel2496 lmao nice.
@Xinge Gao they literally murder sharks 😃
@Xinge Gao this doesnt relate to the comment, but dolphins are the only known mammal, besides humans, to kill with no purpose
Losing giant fish is genuinely depressing. They are majestic giants that deserve respect and peace.
They’re stupid fish that pretty much just live to kill and eat other things, sometimes including people. They’re not “majestic”. They’re dangerous.
@@stanstanstan2597 It comes to what you consider beatifull. Wolfs are dangerous but there is somd dignity
@@stanstanstan2597 they dont eat people, they can bite you yes but they dont do that to try to eat you. also they aren't dangerous compared to basically any creature on land that has teeth
@@Buggolious i dont hate sharks but you say that comfortably on land
@@stanstanstan2597 Bruh. first of all sharks aren't stupid. They are relatively smart for a fish species and only look dumb because of vacant expressions. Secondly, a shark will only attack you if it is distressed or mistakes you for an injured seal or fish. Not a dog hater but it's more likely for your own dog to murk you than a shark ( and I know that most instances of this are dog abuse)
*TO HELP CONSERVATION:*
A great way of helping out in your daily life is to make sure the fish you buy is farmed and not wild caught! I don't know how easy that is around the world but I would think it's doable in any country with good regulations around food labeling. Here the EU fish and other seafoods are labeled with both country of origin and production method, no matter if it's bought prepackaged or from a fish counter, and in my experience farmed fish is widely available. Also, farmed fish isn't just better for the eco system but it's safer as well since man-made fodder prevents parasitic infections and ensures the fish contains less pollutants and waste, even none depending on regulations.
Fish farming is way more environmentally friendly than that of any other livestock so supporting the industry has a positive impact in general, at least at the time of writing. Making smart decisions and being mindful of how your actions impact nature doesn't have to be difficult :)
If anyone has any more tips on helping conservation efforts in your daily life or as an average Joe please comment below!
I remember seeing the Jaws poster as a young kid and being extremely creeped out by it. A time came when I was snorkeling in the ocean, looking down into just green nothing, and imagining those shark jaws just appearing out of the depths and eating me. I panicked and booked it back to the boat, and I've been scared of deep water since. Which is weird for me now to actually think about, because I grew to really like sharks and I think they're pretty cute-- like big sea dogs. You can just bop em on the nose if they get too close and they'll go away, simple as that.
Humans: Kill hundreds of thousands of fish and marine life per day
Sharks: accidentally nibble on a toe
Humans: I will erase you from history
And if it was your toe? Lets say you lost an entire leg. Is it really just a "accident"
@@justasalamander2621 lets say you lost your entire life, lets say its just business.
@@spektremis191 business? Ah yes we sell our toes for their fins. Jokes aside sharks are demonized but sharks are by no means angles. Sharks HAVE killed before. Tons of apex predators have.
@@justasalamander2621 humans live on land, so when we invade their territory, they will be curious to check us out. They can't touch or recognise objects using fins, so they use their mouth,. Humans also kill 70 million sharks every year and only 5 to 6 deaths caused by sharks every year. Very unfair. Think about it, they have lived for 450 million years only to be wiped out by humans in less than a century from now.
@@justasalamander2621 sharks and every other living things have lives too. We are only sharing this world with them. We don't have rights to erase them from the world.
So basically, the sharks don’t like to go to the surface for bait because they’re too busy vibing with the jellyfish?
Yep
This is a scientific truth.
It's there DMT and you know there is a famous shark "joe rogan" out there asking other sharks if they trip on jellyfish.. Mircrodosing brooooo.......
@@lodge8073 only a Great White could play with jellyfish for 8 hours.
I'm a big animal activist, and I just now realized how even I (the same person who takes in unwanted pets, and is even working past my fear of spiders because I know they are harmless here in Canada) i still have a fear of the ocean because of everything I saw as a kid, I hope this video gets picked up in the algorithm so more people can learn
Watching this legit made me emotional. Its sad :/ It makes me want to become a marine biologist and study sharks to help spread the correct information about sharks
Sharks in movies:their bloodthirsty monsters who kill for sport
Sharks in realife:sharks are basically real animals that are curious creatures and are chill
"I want to boop the snoot."
Sharks are water dogs. You can't change my mind.
Super chill. Next time you see a great white, go for a swim with it and see if it gets "curious" with you.
@Benny hat
Baby sharks are indeed called pups.
@@goatwarrior3570 There's a diver named Ocean Ramsey who regularly swims with sharks including great whites. The great whites she's swam with have all been chill.
I rather not live my adulthood years with my child asking “Daddy what is a shark?". We shall protect for the sake of the future. Our future is still reliant to them.
Not only that if we have no more sharks Ric Flair would be depressed, he swims with sharks in fact we have Shark Week,Sharks have Ric Flair Week !! Wooooooooo!!🦈🦈🦈🏊♂️🦈🦈🦈
Same
Without sharks oceans would be poisoned by dead bodies
I’m 3 years late but thank you man! I’ve been trying to remember that Lego Jaws video for years! 2007-2008 was peak early UA-cam stop motion with some of the best stuff out there 😂
Just to make a point, the Shark in the movie Jaws wasn't called "Jaws". its like a "Frankenstein" kind of thing where people assume the name of the movie is the name of the antagonist.
Humans : *Hunting sharks becuase of a movie*
My brain : Well thats like killing people because of *The Purge*
And calling it shark infested is like calling you a trespasser in your own home
@@daddydiesel2496 implying that you can get the shark into the house
@@gumbywithagun4293 its a comparison between humans and sharks, sharks live in the ocean, we live in houses.
@@toaster6068 ok
@@gumbywithagun4293 lmfaaaaaoooo
the shift in language from “shark bite” to “shark attack” is really interesting. from accident to purposeful, evil intent, personifying a neutral creature as a villain who is somehow out to get us.... I always thought that was weird, cool to see you agree (:
it is very interesting :)
:)
I see the point but I'm pretty goddamn sure sharks bite things just as intentionally as any other animal. If a person just ran up and bit you it'd be fair to call that an "attack"
@@BluJean6692 Yeah but the intent behind a human running up and biting you is very different then a shark biting you or a dog. A human biting you is mentally ill or intentionally wanting to cause harm. A sharks intent isn't to cause harm(for harms sack) it to try and eat you because it thinks you are food. An to be honest we (humans) are food just not it's normal source of food. Sometimes they are doing exploratory bites to determine is this food or is it not (we are meat so technically food) Sharks have mouths, eyes and their noses to explore with. Sharks have no hand no legs to examine things so yes they bite. I'm not agiast using the word attack but sometimes the word attack put with other words which it usually is indicates a more of human intent behind said bite action then any animal has. that the bite was malicious or had hate behind it. "Theres been a vicious shark attack" this indicates more human intent behind a shark bite/shark attack then just exploration and finding of food.
@@BluJean6692 Shark bites in nearly every case happen because the shark's trying to figure out what you are, so it lightly nibbles you in order to find out if you're food or not. It's accidental.
If a shark legitimately wanted to eat you you wouldn't live to tell about it. You would at the very least lose the part that got bit due to the ludicrous bite force.
there was an ad under this video to, “Buy or rent Jaws”. I wanna cry