Have Humans Always Feared Sharks? | Monstrum
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Despite the extreme rarity of attacks on humans, Sharks have become perhaps the most widely feared animals on the planet. How did this happen? They're not naturally aggressive towards humans and kill fewer people each year than falling coconuts. So what gives?
The world is full of monsters, myths, and legends and Monstrum isn’t afraid to take a closer look. The show, hosted by Emily Zarka, Ph.D., takes us on a journey to discover a new monster in each new episode. Monstrum looks at humans' unique drive to create and shape monster mythology through oral storytelling, literature, and film and digs deep into the history of those mythologies.
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Shark: *chillin'
Humans: "he's standing there, menacingly."
I'm sorry .... I had to:
"GET OUT OF THERE SPONGEBOB!"
Sharks standing???
I think one of my favorite jokes about the demonization of sharks is, "Sharks aren't so bad. If a stranger came into my house wearing only a speedo, I'd probably attack him too."
"Demonization of sharks" sounds like a summer action movie pitch.
@@youremakingprogress144 or a metal album name
"The Demonization of Sharks" this summer's smash EcoThriller hit, directed by Leonardo Decaprio.
My fav is another version. Although it is misleading as they don’t really view us as good.
But it says “if a cheeseburger was floating around in my living you, i’de probably bite it too.
You should see the channel sharks happen
Peter Benchley is the ultimate modern 'What Have I Done' warning to authors and mythmakers, but to his credit, he shouldered that and spent a lot of time trying to fix things.
He gave me both a life-long phobia and love, that's what he did. I love sharks, but I'm also petrified of them.
I'm glad he did.
Richard O'Barry, the trainer of the dolphins in Flipper, helped make dolphins a worldwide phenomenon for sea parks. But after one of the dolphins died he had a change of heart and devoted his life to save dolphins from captivity & slaughter (some of it can be seen in the documentary "The Cove").
Especially since he's been a sharklover since he was little.
And even though his novel has given sharks a bad name, still it inspired THE shark movie! To me, JAWS is the only the shark-themed horror movie that has age like a fine wine. And it’s all thanks to Spielberg’s directing and John Williams’ music.
I forget where it's from, but I love the quote "To a mouse a cat is a monster. We're just used to being the cat."
that's from "Jurassic World". and he mentioned a canary, not a mouse
@@denpogi10 by that same logic ''To a rabbit a dog is a monster''
Nice to know that another person knows that sharks rarely attack humans and that after one bite sharks will abandon the human body due to their dislike of human taste.
Except there have been multiple incidents where sharks have actually hunted and consumed people, the most infamous incident being the Jersey Shore Attacks of 1916, many incidents followed, specifically in Australia
Not true. There are so many cases of such shark attack reports and lost spearfishermen. A modern misconception. | edit: 'shark happen' is a good channel for that
Tell that to the sailors of the USS Indianapolis.
It's not so much the taste as it is them realising that you don't match up with what they thought they were hunting. Generally speaking, that means most sharks aren't going to be after humans. However that doesn't mean individual sharks never add humans to their "possible meals" list.
Doesn't help that a human who's missing a limb will mostly likely bleed to death and not swim back to safety haha
I remember one day realizing that Amity's Mayor was the actual villian of the movie.
Though the shark ate humans it was behaving like a predatorial animal, albeit with a rogue behavior since sharks don't usually prey on humans.
The Mayor literally wanted to cover everything in order to avoid losing money and open the beaches despite the danger of the shark. He literally opened the doors of the restaurant to a predator. In the book he is preassured by gangsters, but still very dark.
When I had my 25 birthday, my old brother took me to go swimming with sharks, I was FN terrified. But the shark dive expert told me, to stay calm and just follow his direction and I'll be safe, and I did swim with sharks around an 1 hour, and I had so much more respect about sharks now, they are big and powerful, when you put your hand on one and when they swim off, you can feel how powerful they are. Best birthday ever
Damn... That's poetic
The video made me kinda sad about sharks, and now your comment makes me sad I'm not you. You lucky bastard.
They're beautiful animals, but I am still relatively soft & squishy, so I'm still going to stay on land.
Plus, 47 Meters was _terrifying.._ and certainly cemented my idea of staying out of the ocean.
I don't like swimming, but I would love to swim with sharks
Yay another monstrum video!!! I love how this is about a living misunderstood animal. Thanks for making this video to explain the global views of sharks. It’s so amazing seeing how one animal is feared in one area but worshiped in another. It is sad how such an amazing animal is persecuted as a man eater.
What a compliment (but also curse) to sharks is that you don’t even have to super-size these fishes to convincingly portray them as monsters.
And no, “fishes” is not a grammatical mistake in this case, so don’t @me 😏🦈
@@austintrousdale2397 ok but what is the grammatical difference between fish and fishes? I didn't say you were wrong. Just clarification.
I would LOVE to see a Horror movie based on falling Coconuts! Done right, it could be the next cult classic 😄
Like killer tomatoes?
Well, if they can make horror movies about human eating beds and murderous clothing, I see no reason they couldn't "Attack of the Vicious Coconuts: Watch Your Head!"
How about a tornado rampaging through a coconut plantation, taking coconuts with it and flinging it towards innocent bystanders? COCNADO!
And then palm trees become endangered due to people fearing them as "monsters" leading to people saying things like "you are more likely to get hit by a car than a falling coconut" to combat it
@@astick5249 yeah but it's mostly true. People will fearmonger something if it serves an agenda. Mostly with sharks there is always a bigger agenda. Many fishing companies in japan sluaghter dolphins by the thousands so they won't eat a single fish in their harbors. They call it "pest control". Same with sharks, and china insists they are managing their shark populations responsibly yet the slaughter them by the millions for trillion dollar shark fin industries. The ocean has been so used and abused because people fear it unjustly and so all the problems get ignored. When the world comes falling down and people starve to death, i'll die luaghing because now everybody will know who it's really all on.
So glad this show is still going. This is one of my favorite channels! If you guys could do some mesoamerican mythology or Japanese ghosts like Okiku that would be awesome.
A japanese creature I'd like to see in Monstrum would be the tsukumogami.
I mean, Orca Whales are MUCH more terrifying the sharks, considering their combine intelligence and strength (They even hunt Great White Sharks) yet Killer Whales get to be on the sides of Lisa Frank pencil cases, and Sharks are the choice villains of poorly made SyFy movies.
I had killer whale / orca Lisa Frank folders as a kid 🤣💕🧡💜
Ugh iconic I can still see them in my mind lol - also , it’s the title of one of my favourite car seat headrest songs
They’re such interesting animals , I think because they are so smart. Humans like smart animals, bc they can be “tamed” 😬
I respect orcas but i hope we make all sharks go extinct. Atleast orcas are clever enough to not mess with humans.
@@krimtok8384 why make shark extinct ruining the ecosystem while we can do it to mosquitoes instead, while bending nothing to the food chain
@@krimtok8384 I really hope you’re joking
@@MB32904 no
"Reputable networks like the Discovery Channel." It sounds like the writers haven't watched the Discovery Channel in at least twenty years.
Great video, though! I love the idea of taking a real-world animal and demystifying it from its unearned "monster" mythology. Thanks, PBS and Dr. Z.
I commented the EXACT same thing, the discovery channel is a complete joke. 90% of their programming is fiction at this point, and bad fiction at that.
This video's in an interesting conversation with the one that preceded it: the Angels video was about how they began as mind-bending otherworldly entities and eventually were scaled down to fluffier versions of humans, and this one is about how Sharks went from just another one of our fellow Earth-creatures to the subject of our collective nightmares.
Since we have touched on the Livyatan, can we have an episode on whales in mythology and pop culture? After all, the name Godzilla is partially made up by the Japanese for whales, and whales, maybe even more than sharks, have been the quintessential sea monster for generations.
Although Sperm whales are dangerous, it’s best to leave them alone in the sea.
@@SlapstickGenius23 fun fact: the name of the parvorder Cetacea (in which whales and dolphins belong to) comes from Greek for sea monster
Thank you very much for this! Sharks can't advocate for themselves and their conservation, so it's important we do so for them. A great many species are in decline, several are in danger of disappearing altogether due to human activity.
Shark in the myth: there's a Greek myth about a sea monster daughter of Poseidon known as Lamia who birthed the monster Scylla and in an encounter with Zeus, also birthed a handsome boy named Akheilos who was turned into a shark for comparing his beauty to Aphrodite (the usche). In fact, Lamia is considered the origin for the family of sharks known as Lamnidae, which includes makos and great whites.
Also some movies I like where sharks are either neutral, good guys, or trying to be good, are Shark Tale, Beyond the Reef (1981), Finding Nemo, and this movie Sea Level.
Personally sharks are a personal favorite not because of ferocity but because of diversity, beauty, and that they're animals I kinda see myself in.
Man, wtf is Aphrodite's problem? She can't handle being on the same level as anyone else?
@@walrusArmageddon she was an imported war goddess that got aggressively reimagined by the non-Spartan Greeks because Athena already filled the role of token warrior girl.
Also, like, that is by definition blasphemy. In a lot of religions, blasphemy is punished with death. I'd argue turning into a shark would be a step up.
@@nickmalachai2227 blasphemy?
blasphemy is a insulting word?
but comparing is not
there is so many other comparing them selves to aries but its not bad
the writer of the epic poem about them have a negative presentation to female gods
@@akinemainunangugel9650 blasphemy is not just insulting the divine but attempting to stand on equal footing. One does not match the hurricane in ferocity, to pretend you might is an insult to the hurricane, and when the hurricane is intelligent and able to find you and punish you specifically? That is an exceptionally bad idea.
But it are right, Athenian and Roman writings aren't kind to her as a character (although Rome probably spoke less ill of the mother of their mythological founder).
@@nickmalachai2227 if the hurricane is intelligent?
I think those who are true wise or intelligent character will not punish someone to just compares them selves to them
and so many characters compared to ares but didn't got finished
and the story about arachnid
she win, but she got punish
and medusa
for the example you gave about hurricane
I don't agree, sorry,
coz if someone attempt to stand on equal and they successfully do it,
it means they are really in the same
even after that idiot punishing thing happen, its still the same
so I may agree to the reaction comments in this trend
I love sharks, mostly because I work in an animal-related theme park, and know a few of our shark aquarists thanks to my fiance having previously been one of the animal exhibit docents. Thus, I've gotten to hear about so many of our sharks and other fish. It's really hard to be scared of sharks when you hear about one that's an incredibly awkward dingbat who has never quite figured out how to take his fish from the handlers at feeding time, and thus has merrily swum off on his way with squid atop his head instead of in his mouth.
I remember hearing about Jaws; it was one of the FEW movies my mother deemed too scary for me. Coming from a lady who let her 10 year old kid watch ALIEN...
So of course I got super interested in sharks after seeing one clip of the movie, haha! I remember most clearly learning that Great Whites aren't even the most aggressive among species - that title went variously to the Mako, the Tiger, and the Blue depending on who I asked. I am extremely glad that more science is done now than shock-factor nonsense in regards to this incredible creatures. Now if we can just...forget Sharknado ever happened? Well, probably not likely...
I think Bull are pretty aggressive.
Enough bong hits and sharknado becomes the greatest movie of its generation
Funny that you mentioned Alien. In a 2004 Halloween-season program that’s aired several times since, Bravo compiled the 100 Scariest Movie Moments and aired the list, complete with interviews and movie or trailer clips, over 5 consecutive nights (1 episode-night). Guess which movie edged out Alien for the top spot? 🌊 ☠️
@@lukasnovella9001 yes, bull sharks are scary, especially when they end up trapped in lakes having swum up river. I live in Albany, Western Australia. Scared of great whites, but not scared enough to avoid our beautiful beaches.
@@Skittenmeow Yeah, the bull shark's ability to swim in brackish and fresh water makes them kinda unnerving. Suddenly, sharks are in the one place people don't think of shark territory.
I always had sympathy for sharks. I remember that when I was a little boy my local television channel ran a commercial depicting very graphic videos of fin aputations, then the fishers would throw the sharks mutilated back in the water and, well, it was so friggin sad. I've heard some people compare sharks to cats, they both have their own strong personalities and sure, if feeling threatened they would attack (the difference being that sharks will not leave you only scratches), but they are quite peaceful and sometimes docile species. They are funny sometimes. Take this comment with a grain of salt, I dunno if this information is correct, but I've seen a lot of scubba diver videos that show how docile sharks are
Usually spiders are the ones I compare to cats but that works too!
I'd love to see an episode on "The Other" and how we turn regular human beings into monsters simply because we dont like them.
The shark in the novel "The Blue Lagoon" is another interesting example of the use of a shark in literature. The shark plays a much larger role in the novel than the movie(s) and it is a metaphor for the eventuality of death and for the dark side of nature itself. Also there is a great scene in the novel where the heroine has to save the hero when he gets attacked by a giant octopus. Awesome episode as always!
For more information about the importance of shark conservation and education, head to The Shark Trust www.sharktrust.org/
And if you like the shirt Dr. Z is wearing in this episode, you can get one too. There’s even a sweet Kraken on the back! store.dftba.com/collections/monstrum
Thank you, Dr. Z!!! :D
I did notice that her wardrobe was a bit different than usual.
Are these Men's, Woman's, or Unisex sizes?
Can you make an episode about unicorns?
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Fun fact: In the book Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, it wasn’t a whale that swallowed Pinocchio and Gepetto, it was a giant shark. Though, in keeping with that bizarre and fantastical book, the shark in question was a giant dogfish, a type of shark that should only be about a meter long.
Gosh I love sharks so much
Calling the ocean "shark infested" is like calling your house "human infested".
Jaws scared me from swimming in our pool alone as a kid.
Same for this lake kid, lol! We were only 8 or 9, but we all noped out. Spent the day helping my dad with rotten boards on the deck, and now have a scar for it
@@HMouse123 I couldn't even watch deep blue sea
I picked up the novel Meg in 1997 because it had a big sticker advertising, "soon to be a major motion picture!" Twenty years of anticipation really didn't pay off.
So we need an action movie where a shark expert stops a group of [insert current enemies here], in the end it comes down to the experts knowledge of shark behaviour and long history studying the sharks of the area.
*swimming away casually into the sunset with obligatory sidekick character* Never run away from a predator man, it only draws their attention.
Jaws and its effects on the public perception of sharks has been disastrous
In a way, Humanity is a monster to the Shark with how much comparative damage that's been done to them.
I have thalassophobia, I don't even like swimming in lakes. Hell, if a pool is big and deep enough I never like turning my back towards the deep part. I'm a strong swimmer and if I swim down to the bottom I'm much more comfortable but floating at the surface is insanely nerve-wracking for me. I think some of it comes from growing up in an area with very murky fresh water and predators like alligators and snakes and a lot of other potential dangers in the water that you couldn't see. Add on watching Jaws a few too many times and now I basically start having a panic attack if you get me to go past knee deep in the ocean. I'll go out deep sea fishing on occasion and every time I look over the side into the water and can't see anything but blue, I have to go sit down and calm myself down. I've gone out swimming in old quarries and even tho I know the biggest thing in there is a catfish, it's so deep I still felt anxious. I actually love sharks and love to learn about them, but I have zero desire to go anywhere near them and just wish we respected them and their home more.
"No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors." - Peter Benchley
Thank you for putting in a brief statement about their possible extinction. It is important that people learn what's going on in the environment! Thanks for a great video!!!!:)
I appreciate one of the few Baby Shark sightings that doesn't annoy most adults!
Crap, the song is stuck in my head.
My theory about Jaws is that the local fishermen are over fishing and the shark is simply starving because there isn't enough of his normal food source.
Yeah... I miss Shark Week being about discovering the sharks and not sensationalizing them, making them horror stories, or guys daring themselves to do stupid things.
The Jurassic World movies have some great Meg moments.
A terrific example of how we make monsters that most of us have seen play out to one extent or another in our lifetimes.
Thanks for another great video. In case you're not already aware, you're showing a fairly famous picture of a surfer in Waikiki on the island of O'ahu in the US state of Hawai'i when you mention surfing in Australia. That mountain in the back is Lēʻahi (Diamond Head).
I heard it on TV before: Sharks are the cats of the ocean.
Sharks fascinate me. They're beautiful creatures, beautifully adapted to their environment and role in their ecosystem.
The only time I truly enjoyed a fishing trip was the time I caught a Port Jackson shark in Port Phillip Bay. I took a minute to check her out (no claspers, so a definite female), then cut the line at the hook, placed her gently back in the water, and moved her around to get water flowing through her gills again.
Seeing her head back deep gave me such a rush, I was grinning for hours
Humans: "Sharks are such monsters! Unlike those adorable dolphins..."
Meanwhile sharks: "I'm just hungeee..."
Meanwhile dolphins: "I'm gonna decapitate that fish and r**e his trachea!"
I saw jaws at too young of an age and was terrified of them for exactly two weeks, seeing them in pools and stuff then the first incarnation of shark week came and I fell in love with them
There should totally be a falling coconut horror movie.
I would pay serious cash to see that.
It’ll be like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes but with coconuts
I grew up by the sea, a fishing/tourism town but after seeing JAWS I was afraid to go in the water after dark, for so long I was scared of sea monsters that only came out at night lol...
You guys do such a great job with this show. An episode on a Muscogee or Cherokee monster would be awesome, btw. Horned serpents, anyone?
seconded, would love to know more about Native culture in general
I have an irrational fear of octopus. I was convinced as a child that they were in the neighbor's pool. In, reality it was being pulled underwater by my older brother over & over again.
I always had a fear of Cthulhu.
I miss my bull sharks...occasionally one would bother folks, but swimming out to the sandbar and hanging out with the young ones was neat. They were only the size of my leg, precious little things: I'm afraid of a lot of things in the ocean, *including* a healthy respect bordering on terror of herself, but not sharks. ♥ This one is as good as always -- you just should reupload it come September, or whenever the curst week is!
March, for the US
The film version of Jaws was big the first summer I worked as a lifeguard -- at a *pool* that was at least an hour from the nearest beach. A couple of young teen girls came straight to the pool after seeing the film on a gray, drizzly day with a cold breeze blowing, so they were the only non-staff inside the fence. Of course, they had to come when it was my turn in the rotation to go up into the guard chair (exposed to the breeze & drizzle atop an 8-foot pole) so I was anything but thrilled. Then I noticed the girls were playing "shark attack" -- one would stand in the shallow end of the pool and the other would swim up behind her underwater, holding one hand up like a shark's dorsal fin, and they'd see how close the swimmer could get before the other girl freaked out. After watching this for several minutes while shivering in the drizzle, I waited for one of the girls to swim up close behind the other and when she came up for air I yelled "SHARK!" as loudly as I could. They got out of the pool faster than anyone I'd ever seen, grabbed their towels, and ran out the gate -- all while screaming. I have to admit I was kind of proud of myself when I walked back into the warm, dry office, and earned a lot of brownie points from the rest of the staff when I told them why a couple of screaming banshees had just zoomed past the office at warp speed. (Aah, to be young again...)
Surprised Dr. Zarka didn't mention the real shark attack that occurred when they filmed jaws. If she's keeping the sea monster theme going I hope she does the Kraken next and goes over it's progenitors like charybdos.
Sharks are totally magical. Ignorance creates fear where knowledge creates respect. Human’s are afraid of anything that they can’t control and we can’t for one moment control what goes on in the ocean. 🤷🏻♀️
I think most of our fear comes from just simply not being able to adapt perfectly in water. We are a land based animal and if you throw us in a environment where we aren’t best suited for and on top of that add a predator that IS; it creates a recipe for nightmares.
My thoughts exactly.
I love the way you cover these subjects. I mean the way you write descriptions, the wording is just beautiful. Great video really.
Was born on Puerto Rico and always loved sharks to me they are gods i love them. I hope people realize they are not monsters thank you for this video
and don't forget the aggressive music in the films. the music played in jaws when the shark is seen is quite frightening
Man, I love sharks, but I also get a fight or flight feeling when I see a picture of them. Why can't I have nice things 😔
"Unwarranted reputation as man eaters "
Tell that to the survivors of the USS Indianapolis
Monstrum’s back!! Thanks for another great vid about a terrifying yet misunderstood animal!
I have always been obsessed with sharks, to the point my family gets annoyed at me telling everyone about them. There's just so much to love.
My personal favorites are shortfin makos, lemon sharks, bluntnose sixgills, nurse sharks, and angular roughsharks.
"It was if God created the Devil and gave him ... Jaws."
1 Amazing tagline.
2 They're fishing for Exorcist fans.
I think the same thing happens with shark attacks that happens with plane crashes. They are so rare that they always make the news when it happens, and that makes people think that they are more common than they actually are. After all, a car accident is usually not even newsworthy unless it involves 6+ people, but a shark attack will even make national news sometimes.
I had a week or two of shark/drowning nightmares when I was in grade school and haven't been able to deal with deep water since.
I love the bloopers...and the content🥰
I will always cry when I see those photos of sharks being held up like trophies because of mass hysteria. But I've never hated the Jaws movies for the fallout caused by them.
0:59 well, we just haven't start working on horrifying falling coconuts yet. Just wait for it.🤣
YAY! I'm finally recovering from a serious sinus/upper respiratory infection, so how better to celebrate than a new Monstrum? :D
Taking a whiff out of a balloon full of helium and laughing?
I hope you feel better soon stranger, stay hydrated
@@hunterq4202 Doing so *salutes and holds up nalgene of ice water*
@@TehlItER Oof... I might be a few days away from that much celebrating yet, lol. I shudder at the thought of the coughing that would ensue.
The scariest shark of all was Left Shark.
I live on a small island in Caribbean and I said to myself if one day a shark bite me I will bite it back🙃
I'd love to see an episode on the yuki onna and kitsune of japanese folklore
You should do one on a bird like creature. Like the roc or the harpy.
Thank you. What an unexpected choice. Sharks are so misunderstood they're practically treated like mythical creatures
Point of order, "on the periphery?" Sharks reputation really did get boosted by Jaws, however, I think there was an awareness of them and their danger before then too. Just look at the "Flipper" TV series of the 60's, and Sean Connery's too close encounter with Sharks while filming Thunderball.
As always thank you so very much for the video.
It made them seem more like a natural hazard before Jaws made it seem that Sharks were cunning, dastardly, and importantly, Evil. As if they were unnatural.
“they are powerful creatures that remind humans we are not at the top of the food chain”
& “we” as in “the sharks” lmao
I think the main reason that sharks rarely attack humans is because sharks only live in the water and people don't go very far from the coast when swimming. and if there's a shark near a beach people tend to stay out of the water entirely making it physically impossible for the shark to attack someone
They also don't like how we taste. When a human is attacked it's by mistake and usually spat right out. Problem is their bite can be huge, arms or legs lost at sea can't be reattached and they can sever an appendage, and bleeding can be profuse.
@@kathryngeeslin9509 the only shark species that hunts humans are bull sharks, which are extremely aggressive anyway
Tiger sharks will also scavenge people, but they will eat anything, some have even been found with license plates in their stomachs
@@kathryngeeslin9509 exactly, lol. I'm fat and juicy, like a seal. I don't need to survive the "taste test"
@@kathryngeeslin9509 Both if those have actually been disproved, firstly sharks have excellent eyesight and they bite us to figure out what we are since they explore objects with their mouths. Secondly, they don’t dislike the way we taste but the reason they spit us out is because most of the time we fight back so they let go due to fear of injury
Omg came here to say this because the host mentioned coconuts and bee sting? But if people think about it, what you said totally makes sense. Thanks for bringing logic into the discussions.
Cheers so much for this vid!!! The more people willing to stand up for sharks, the better!!!
I love the movies Jaws and Meg and I'll admit, I was afraid of them as a kid, but I learned they aren't so bad and most attacks are usually super rare and misunderstanding. In my opinion, most people nowadays know that sharks aren't hostile monsters, though there are still people like that out there, and thanks to the spread of information, more people are willing to help these amazing creatures thrive. They might even be our answer to the cure of cancer!
It would be cool if they did a video on some of the shark gods like Dakuwaqa
JAWS is one of my favorite books and my favorite movie, it made me inspired to know more about the ocean and it’s mysteries
“Vengeance on a dumb brute!" cried Starbuck, "that simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.”
Great, as usual! I'm always waiting for a new episode, but one thing..... could you please make a bloopers reel :-)
Awesome episode!! No lie, The Meg is legit one of my favorite movies. I always wanted to see an actual good Megalodon film for a long time and it delivered. I'd honestly love to see a proper horror film with Megalodon as well; as goofy as the History Channel fake documentary was, its ending scenes felt like a solid proof of concept for one.
I really adore this channel and won't say a bad word about it, which is why I say with much love please put a warning for thalassophobia somewhere at the start, I know "if you have thalassophobia why click the shark video???" but the warning genuinely helps alleviate some of the fear. I learned a lot from this video but the start still freaked me out
Nanaue is an actually shark god? I only knew of him thanks to DC's King Shark (if I recall correctly, he is also a deity in the dcu)
To anyone else who doesn’t know:
Nanaue is a demigod from Hawaiian mythology. He's the son of Ka-moho-ali'i, who is the brother of the volcano goddess Pele and a guardian shark deity. Nanaue looked like regular guy, but had a shark's mouth on his back and could turn into a shark. Moho told his mother not to let him eat meat, but one day he did which lead to him developing an insatiable appetite for meat, which led him to start eating people. When they found the big gaping shark mouth on his back they realized that he was the man-eating shark and tried to kill him, but he swam to a different island. This happened a few times until one village snared him and beat him to death while he was in shark form.
Wow i already love this channel its amazing, how haven't find it as yet.
I also think of the monologue about the fate of the crew of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (a true story) when Jaws is mentioned.
Yep
Out there is a perfect engine, an eating machine that is a miracle of evolution - it swims and eats and makes little baby sharks, that's all.
Having been in the water with sharks including a great white for I'll admit 30 ish seconds before it swam away I can say, they're very intelligent and inquisitive animals. Not the demonic killer's Hollywood has made you believe and it was an honour being so close to a great white shark that I touched it's pectoral fin. One of my favourite animals in the world just so incredible and endangered nowadays, was off coast of Ambriz in Angola where I encountered it, probably because they've been driven away from South Africa for years now so they've probably moved further North.
But I've swam with a great white for a bit, bulls, tigers, reefs, nurse, lemons and black tip sharks. Never been bitten or seen very aggressive behaviour mostly curiosity from them and believe it or not playfulness especially from tiger sharks which I've dived with around Africa and in the Caribbean. They love being hand fed underwater and believe it or not have their noses scratched, they're literally like dogs only aquatic, alot bigger and personally? Way cooler
Thank you for making this video. Sharks need our help more than ever.
"Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you're more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!" -- Ted Danson
i wouldve liked it if it was mentioned WHY sharks sometimes attack people in the first place! its usually out of honest to god curiosity. if all you have is a mouth to inspect things, you're going to want to inspect them... with your mouth!
Can you do one about Wolves next? One of the most vilified animals that rarely hurt humans.
often sharks are not even biting people with the intention to eat them or even mistaking them for something sharks eat. many sharks investigate something that it does not understand by test biting them. this is why many "shark attacks" is just shark biting once, and then leaving.
gotta say, with movies about sci-fi/supernatural themed sharks,(ghost shark, zombie, shark, mutant shark, robot shark, sharkenstein or frankenshark) am just semi wondering how a werewolf shark hasn't happened yet, basically if a shark ate a werewolf, or survived being attacked by werewolf, what fresh hell would it create(&now I'm thinking about a shark that's demonically possessed)
There is actually a movie about a demon shark. It's called Shark Exorcist. I watched a review about it and it is awful.
The discovery channel hasn't been "reputable" for at least 20 years.
Dr. Zarka i think it's right time to do video about orcs. From Tolkien's inspiration's, trought modern fantasy like warhammer.
Ending up with the worst of them actual real orcs wearing the guardian ribbon and the sign of the white z.
My fear of sharks meant I could not watch this... but I DID listen.
listened to most of it...
I just wanna say this, the bibliography is a whole new level of treat.😇
This is an interesting twist, we now focus on a real animal that's often depicted as a monster in media.
Keep up the good work! Sharks are a beauty that needs to be preserved.
My mom saw Jaws in theaters and she says she sat under the chairs because the movie scared her so bad. Years later she yells at my brother for throwing me and his daughter onto beach until he points out the hammer-head swimming near us. I don't think her fear of sharks will change any time soon.
The Hammerhead is known for being shy and timid, so they weren't in any danger. They're actually afraid of bubbles that divers give off when breathing. Though it's nice that he was looking out for his child and sibling.
@@nerdycatlover8627 I didn't know that about hammerheads 😳
@@syrisa Well it's not exactly common knowledge so I can't blame you. I only recently learned that myself.