why do they say that sharks are mans best friend it doesn't make sence?
104497
never heard of sharks being mans best friends but I have heard of dogs being mans best friend and I know thats true at least for me. I love dogs but sharks not so much at all they need to come up with something better then that. Maybe instead of sharks they should say dolphins I love dolphins there sooo cute.
114606
Yes. They need a coating on their scales to protect them against the change in water condition. Some sharks can do this as well as some salmon...but in a tank....there is no way for them to live on.
85097
I do not beleive their is a differance between Aquatic or Marine animals.
1019631
It could be that it's the only way they can get laid. Those sick jerks will screw a snake if you hold the mouth open. You don't need friends like that !!!
605722
Yep. Dolphin attacks on humans are about as common as shark attacks. The difference is that dolphin attacks are very rarely serious enough to require hospitalisation and never fatal. As a result people know that sharks are prone to attacking humans but largely ignorant of dolphin attacks on people.\n\nIt's amazing how many people believe that dolphins won;t attack people.\n\n\nIn the past few months there have been reports of dolphins “attacking” humans that have come to interact with them. The latest are those of a 12 year old girl, a 34 year old woman, a 26 year old mother of two, and a 10 year old boy. All of these victims were not seriously injured, but were very frightened by their experience.\n\nDolphins, as well as other mammals, have a natural instinct regarding eating, mating, and social interaction. By humans coming into the world of dolphins they may interrupt the dolphins routine. This may be distressing to the dolphins, which may show this by attempting to get the human to flee, as they would with anything else they see as a threat.\n\n Further damaging a reputation tarnished by reports of violence, a bottlenose dolphin off the coast of Florida bit a 14-year-old French tourist who tried to pet it this week. The girl, who was swimming in the Intracoastal Waterway near Nokomis, Fla., suffered only minor cuts and bruises. She was taken to a local hospital, treated and released.\n\nWhile this attack certainly wasn’t fierce, local whale and dolphin experts say it may serve to accelerate a changing view of dolphins in the wild. The incident comes just months after an extensive report published in The New York Times cited similar occasions on which the seemingly friendly creatures display violence toward humans. In this case, 14-year-old Pricilla Jones was the unassuming victim. Witnesses say that Jones, a tourist from Paris, swam out to greet the dolphin and tried to pet it on the back. In response, the dolphin thrashed around in the water around her, biting her on the hand.
517749
Humans are not it's main source of food.  Therefore the shark would only attack a person if 1. was incited by a feeding frenzy 2. shark has not been able to get normal source of food for some time 3. the shark is confused by the shape, and takes an investigative bite.  A shark can easily kill a person, but usually after the initial bite they usually let go.  Very rarely are people actually killed and consumed by the shark.
999898
only when it happens in the western hemisphere...during el nino while a hurrican blows in the month of july....wait of course they can they just say man-eating is because the women are smart to stay out of the water when there are sharks around...men say oooh...a shark let's go pet it. usually alchohol is involved with tha last part.
669232
I don't understand that either because I sure don't.  Animals may be less evolved than we are but they still have emotions and feelings and can show them.  To me, I would rather be around animals and appreciate them more than I do most humans!  They are more simplistic than we are and don't have the same egos we do but they are equal in every way and deserve respect, compassion and love just as we do.  They are a living breathing spirit just like we are and need to be treated as such.
1042893
The ones that actually adhere to the sharks are remoras. They're fishes belonging to order Perciformes, family Echeneidae, and they have a dorsal sucking disk with which they attach to sharks , but also to other bony fishes, turtles or marine mammals. These fish clean their "host" and feed on their leftovers.\nThis is what a remora looks like:\nhttp://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/fishfacts/images/enaucsh2.jpg\n\nThe other, more typical-looking fish with dark and light vertical stripes, are pilotfish. These also belong to order Perciformes, but to a different family, the Carangidae. Their scientific name is Naucrates ductor. They were called "pilotfish" because of the belief that they "guided" sharks. Actually, they're semi-obligate commensals of sharks, rays, other bony fishes and turtles, which means that they depend very much on them to feed on their leftovers.\nThis is what a pilotfish looks like:\nhttp://www.horta.uac.pt/imagdop/Servicos/Naucrates_ductor/035_s410_31.jpg
616561
The scales- Same structure, shape, and composition- In fact, a related function, since sharks will brush the sides of their body by interesting possible food items to scrape off a little (of your skin, for example) in order to "taste" it with special sensors in the skin.  Generally, if a shark does this with a human, they will *not* attack further.
1132296
I'm not, but it's ok. Many people get scared of the water. Overcome the fear and you'll get over it. Even if the beach had a chance of sharks, they live farrrrr into the ocean. Just make sure you have nothing shining on and no blood dripping at on your skin and you'll be ok. (I went into oceans where sharks live there. No accidents. :) )
319312
Ever wanted to catch a fish without a bait? it wont work. Men will not just pop in a relationship of which the a party is not interested and interesting to him.               ADVICE: you cant lack a chum to show him what you feel not neccesarly telling him. Just make a serious joke, he'll understand.
515274
Don't see the "Open Water." Really. I never had a fear of sharks before, but I saw the movie and then a few weeks ago I couldn't bear to go into the water at the beach. Even up to my ankles!\n\nOther than that, my fear is that when I near the end of my life (hopefully a long way from now), that I will not have made a difference, that I will not be missed, that I did not make the most of the time I had.
103260
I would have to say no. Atleast not with out help from an artificial help. Man is not a water creature and the shark was born for it. A shark can swim faster than any man can run.
397671
They bash into their predators. they are actually quite strong. they kill sharks that way
114432
Ok, I know that the bit about sharks not breathing if they're still is still taught at school, and essentially it has some point. It's true that gill oxygenation is better when the water flow through the branchial area is greater. \nBut sharks DO indeed stop swimming, they can rest near the bottom of the ocean (as if sleeping) and they use the pumping motion of the floor of their mouth (their mostly immobile tongue) to help water move through the gills. \nBut as I've said, immobile sharks lie mostly near the ocean floor. This is because they're rather dense with respect to water (they don't have swimming bladders like bony fishes do), although their enormous, fat-filled liver increases their buoyancy significantly (along with other physiological characteristics). When they swim, sharks can keep themselves in midwater; the movements of the trunk and tail generate the necessary thrust to keep them from falling to the bottom.
551194
1st off the sharks are always there you may not see them but they are there I have been surfing manytimes and had a shark swim right by me fishing with live bait is not going to attract sharks un less its bigger and a very bloody bait they are attracted to large fish and bloody meat not little shrimp and shinners which is what wade fisherman use along with shrimp and such you are more likely to get worried if someone is using chicken to catch crabs then anything and then you are looking at a thigh not a whole chicken the blood could attract them but not likely I have doen it many times and not a single shark bite on my line