Quote:
Originally Posted by Shortyman801
No misses definitely has a point. But I am tired of the whole misconception that sharks are killers. That is total B.S. Elephants kill more people than sharks in a year. Falling coconuts injure and kill more people than sharks. (its true). I am disgusted that Discovery has a shark week that portrays sharks as "Brutal killers". I would love to punch the guy who decided to make Jaws a movie, and gave sharks such a bad name.
|
I would agree with you on the numbers, but sharks "eat" people, coconuts... not so much. I mean if coconuts did eat someone, then they would have programs about "Hunting the rouge coconut palm".
Note: We do, on a certain level, actually get even with the coconut...we cage them, eat their young....and kill them whenever we feel like it.
We (humans) take great pride in killing things that offer even the slightest threat to us. Ego thing.
It is a shame, that humans, if they were allowed, would kill everything that represented even the slightest threat to us. Sadly, sharks are, for the most part, one of the least protected of that small group.
Bears are protected, for the most part. Most species of large croc or alligator are (mostly). What is left of the big cats are (again - mostly), but sharks are still fair game (fair in this case is not the correct word).
There are animals that do kill a lot of people... Nile croc's and cobra's, for example. Oddly, they have far more protection than almost any shark has.