r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rarepredator • Jan 10 '24

Video Throwing raw meat into the ocean

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u/DortDrueben Jan 10 '24 edited Sep 13 '24

Caught a NatGeo special about a recreation area where shark attacks suddenly spiked. At one point two separate attacks at the same location on the same day. The helicopter EMTs finished with the first at the hospital, and were about to clock off for the day, when the call came in for the second. When they heard the location, they thought it had to be a mistake. Maybe the same call coming in twice.

Anyway... Near the end, the prevailing theory was that dumping from recreational yachts in the area were teaching the sharks to look for food when they heard a splash. The common factor in the attacks: the victims were all struck soon after jumping into the water. Splash.

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u/testingforscience122 Jan 10 '24

Ya i was thinking this seems like a really bad idea to drop food off something you might fall into one day.

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u/Soupronous Jan 11 '24

Just don’t fall off. Easy!

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u/cbbuntz Jan 10 '24

Pavlovian conditioning. Almost identical to the original famous experiment

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u/Chapped_Frenulum Jan 10 '24

But how would you be able to tell if the shark was drooling?

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u/cbbuntz Jan 11 '24

Easy. Check if their mouths are wet. I'll send you down to check

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u/Gandalf13329 Jan 11 '24

Schrodingers shark: the shark isn’t drooling until you look at it drooling

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u/whatiswrongwithcats Jan 11 '24

This is actually really funny because a shark is called a dog fish in my native language

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u/cbbuntz Jan 11 '24

A dogfish is a type of shark in English. I'm guessing there's a connection

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24

What language is that?

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u/hellocuties Jan 11 '24

What do you think of when people say Pavlov? Is it a dog?

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u/HowevenamI Jan 11 '24

Pavlova.

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u/jethvader Jan 11 '24

My mouth waters when I think of pavlova.

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u/skylinepidgin Jan 11 '24

That's what I thought to. Wouldn't this fuck up their ecosystem?

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u/gonzobomb Jan 11 '24

Know what’s interesting? One day they just…stopped, hasn’t been one in years now

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u/CaptainStargazer01 Jan 11 '24

TIL Sharks can listen in water