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apprehensive shark would like 2 remind u of a thing

Happy pride month! Here’s my new collection of pride sharks!!

In order:

All are now available on my redbubble!

“Shark” Mug // ACoupleOfMugs 

You think you’re unworthy to lead because you’re of two different worlds? But that is exactly why you are worthy. 

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this shark is the most earnest creature on the entire planet

WHAT THIS

WHAT IT DO

BOOP

@why-animals-do-the-thing ???

This is probably investigatory behavior! As we talked about a couple years ago on the blog, sharks have lots of little sensory organs around their nose and mouth called Ampullae of Lorenzini. 

(Photo Credit: Chris Huh)

They’re basically little gel-filled pores that sense electric current, and they’re why sharks investigate everything with their faces. Sharks bump things with their nose to put their ampullae near them in an attempt to learn about them - like finding out if you’re animal, vegetable or mineral, and if you could potentially be edible. 

From the video linked, we can see the shark is swimming around checking out the divers (who appear to be hanging out at a decompression stop), before coming over closer to the guy who is filming. This isn’t aggressive behavior - it looks like simply curiosity. It’s not a shark kiss, it’s a shark question: what are you?

@benbokenobi @gaay4tracer like if u need to be shark-booped Immediately

friendly reminder this shark week that - for every human killed by a shark 25 million sharks are killed by people - when we swim we’re in THEIR habitat - they don’t even like to eat us we’re too bony, when they do bite us they think we’re seals - sharks have been around since prehistoric times and now they’re endangered animals because of us -the media likes to portray sharks as deadly monsters bc they look scary but really we’re the ones killing them

Asexual Shark will be swimming to their new home later this week!

Some more Sharkpup babies! Mako Sharkpup, Great White Sharkpup and Tiger Sharkpup for all your toothy cuteness needs

It’s funny cuz in Turkish they are literally called “dog fish”

shork time

shork 

sharks can fly. photos by (click pic) chris mclennan, dirk schmidt and chris fallows of great whites from false bay, south africa, who can reach speeds of 40mph and fly up to ten feet in the air when in pursuit of a seal. but given the energy required, it’s actually quite rare for the sharks to breach.

conservationists ocean ramsay and lesley rochat are filmed swimming with sharks in order to help dispel myths concerning the public’s perception of the animal, and to raise awareness regarding it’s diminishing numbers in the wild. 

says ramsey, “it’s difficult to express the incredible joy and breathtaking emotion experienced …watching the shark acknowledge and observe me, while i peacefully and calmly allowed it to swim towards me, and then experiencing it accepting my touch, allowing me to dorsal and tail ride.”      

she adds, “given the number of surfers and swimmers who frequent shark territory in low visibility often dressed in black wetsuits or floating on surfboards portraying a seal like silhouette, it is a huge testament to sharks sensory systems and intelligence that mistaken identity bite ‘attacks’ are so rare.”   

in fact, as rochat notes, only five people on average are killed by sharks every year, which is less than number of people killed each year by faulty toasters or falling off chairs. in contrast,  approximately  70 million sharks killed each year by humans.

“it’s important for me to walk my talk and show people that sharks aren’t monster man eaters with insatiable appetites for humans, but rather beautiful animals we ought to respect and protect,” rochat says. “they really are baldly misunderstood and need all the help they can get.” (x, x, x)

Large sharks off Western Australia are now doing their part to keep surfers and swimmers safe–by sending tweets warning of their presence.

Scientists have fitted 320 sharks, many of them great whites, with transmitters that automatically issue warnings to the Surf Life Saving Western Australia’s Twitter feed when the tagged sharks approach within a kilometer of the coast’s popular beaches.

[full article here]

Holy shit I can be twitter friends with a shark I love the future. 

@caligulasaquariums

this is a beautiful marriage of technology and conservation!!

Large Plush Whales and Sharks by Spring Leaf Naturals on Etsy

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