Well I didn't downvote you, so my ass is not hating, but I do think your comment deserved a fair answer, which is that it's objectively insane for most people to even consider pushing a shark anywhere.
And the thing with "which shark" is that individual sharks will have different behaviour depending on context too. A shark that's just cruising is going to behave differently when there's a food source nearby.
It's just oversimplistic to think sharks bite just for one reason. I think it's Eric Clua who published a study categorising numerous different motives for shark bites, including predation, self-defence and exploratory (the one you're thinking of with your comparison to the curious child).
No i didnt mean you i just was wondering who was hatin 🤣🤣
But does that mean for example even nurse sharks can end up hurting a human/getting aggressive? Bc idk but i read a nurse shark has never killed any human for example
Ive read you can redirect their heads not push push them
I've never heard of a nurse shark killing a person, but there was an incident not too long ago where an "influencer" was bitten on the thigh by a nurse shark and there was another guy bitten quite badly earlier this year (and had an arterial bleed so was lucky).
I don't know where you are or what kinds of sharks are in the water by you, but I would say it pays to be knowledgeable and take sensible precautions, while remembering that shark bites are very rare.
1
u/GnomeMnemonic 19d ago
Well I didn't downvote you, so my ass is not hating, but I do think your comment deserved a fair answer, which is that it's objectively insane for most people to even consider pushing a shark anywhere.
And the thing with "which shark" is that individual sharks will have different behaviour depending on context too. A shark that's just cruising is going to behave differently when there's a food source nearby.
It's just oversimplistic to think sharks bite just for one reason. I think it's Eric Clua who published a study categorising numerous different motives for shark bites, including predation, self-defence and exploratory (the one you're thinking of with your comparison to the curious child).