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Orca VS. White Shark E3: Shifting Villains?
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- Опубліковано 30 бер 2024
- Usually the media is busy making sharks sound bad. Now orcas, and I quote, are "murdering", "slaughtering", "terrorizing", and "slaying" sharks. Things have really shifted.
With the help of a few select scientists the world is convinced that 2 "serial killer" orcas have wiped out South Africa's white shark population. So how long until humans decide they need to "step in"? and manage the "orca situation"?
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The "price of admission" concept was pretty heavy. I liked it though. Different way of thinking.
That got me too
Humans kill millions of sharks, everybody SHHHHHHH. Orcas kill a few sharks and they're the assholes? Oh ok. Also, that young lady you interviewed saying "we have enough whales?' Oh the hubris on people to assume they understand what counts as "enough whales" or enough animals. Thank you for pointing this out, as it needs to be said more. Great video.
Yeah, somehow we always know how much of something there should be, yet every time throughout history that we've stepped in to "improve things" it's turned out worse. The most intelligent species can't learn from history...hmmm. Either than or monetary greed simply causes people to intentionally make the wrong choice.
One more response regarding the little girl and her calloused, almost arrogant stance on wildlife...some people, including the head of the Sharks Board that I interviewed, claimed things are "going to be OK" because human perceptions toward sharks are improving. I think not. Yes, there's a certain population that is more aware, but the other population, the one completely divorced from all nature, not just sharks, is also growing and eclipsing the population.
Orcas murdered salmon, lol
Another thought provoking video Skyler.
I have been aware of the Natal Shark Board since the the late 70s I think. At first I was amazed by it, mainly because shark information was sparse at that time and photos of bodies of netted white and other sharks compared with humans for scale were rare. In fact from memory, I recall seeing shark experts doing necropsies in public, under the umbrella of education. The nettings were mainly positioned under human safety.
It's fame or infamey died down in the 90s as bycatch became an issue, sharks were less demonised as their place in the ecosystems were better understood. Now you hardly hear of it at all.
You make excellent points re the blame orcas receive, while the bigger problem, as usual, is human caused. I have heard some SA experts theorise that it is human practices driving some of the behaviours of both fish and mammals, but as you point out, this debate gets little traction.
As I have now retired my views have changed. I always felt we would ruin the world in the next 25 years (towards the end of my expected life). I now think that could happen in one decade.
I sometimes see the social media meme of two scenarios 1, what would happen to the earth if humans were removed....it flourishes. The second is what happens when other living things are gone but humans remain....the earth dies. Sadly we have a hugely inflated view of our species. We should put Aborigines and Native North Americans in charge of everything!
Thank you again for watching and for your comments, Chris. So you had heard of the Sharks Board growing up...I wonder how much that has to do with your interests and background compared to the average person. Regarding the earth flourishing when humans are gone, it's very real and a tough pill for many people to swallow. To me it's an indicator that we have no place on this planet or lost what our true purpose was long ago. One way people counter this is to claim God actually put us here to destroy it. Crazy.
@@Whitesharkvideo My pleasure, but you cover some great topics and angles. I think many forget in terms of the Earth's history we are but a blink in time as a species. The dinos 'ruled' here for hundreds of millions of years, we but a few thousand. I recall the graphic description of the earth's history represented on a clock face with noon the present date, dinos were represented by hands something like 20 mins at 11:40 and humans 1 minute at 11:59
I vaguely remember a projection made about 20 years ago, theorising what the earth could look like had the dinos, not gone extinct. It concluded there would be intelligent reptilians as a dominent species, looking not too disimilar to us, ie upright , two bifocal eyes and long limbed. Mammals would just be mostly hunted rodents.
"We should put Aborigines and Native North Americans in charge of everything!"
'Native' North Americans (actually from Asia) were a major reason why the mammoth and other mega fauna became extinct in that continent.
Personally, I could not pay that price of admission.