• Noble Shift@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    1 month ago

    Great whites are just like running backs or a slow AF freight train, tigers are twitchy like that meth head at the petrol station, bull sharks are actually bullies, makos are a bullet train with teeth and something to prove, hammerheads are just plain graceful.

    Coolest shark is definitely a hammerhead, I’ll vote for the Great HH.

    [edit 2nd coolest sharks are Nurse Sharks because you can wade / sit in the water and they come up like dogs.

    • Dwemthy (he/him)@lemdro.idEnglish
      15·
      1 month ago

      Nurse sharks are friendly? The things I remember about them from my childhood book on sharks are: they sleep in big piles on the ocean floor, their eggs are like weird sacks, and they latch on after biting and will not let go

      • ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zoneEnglish
        19·
        1 month ago

        They’re little sea puppies that are perfectly happy to cruise around while you swim with them. At least that’s the grey nurse sharks we get in aus. The ones you’re describing sound more like wobbegongs or similar. The grey nurses need to be in highly oxygenated water.

        Grey nurses also used to have a rep as “man eaters” but that was just because of how they looked,not any actual attacks

        • MutilationWave@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          I was able to pet a bunch of them and huge stingrays off of Belize while snorkeling. The boat I was on tossed a bunch of chum and then five minutes later we jumped in. They were all so chill with full bellies.

      • Noble Shift@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        The Bahamas you can do this, but you are absolutely correct, and I think they are like ranked 5 or 6 in human bites, something ridiculously high, because they are all calm and people get stupid, mostly divers from what I’ve heard.

      • Noble Shift@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        Reef Whitetips are a good book, mostly harmless so Don’t Panic.

        Oceanic Whitetips - straight gangsters … When they come rolling in on a dive it’s ALWAYS gonna be more than one like you intha wrong hood cuz and thugs be comin up outta the shadows circling you, checking you out deciding if you a pussy ass or what. (Spoiler: They always eventually decide you are in fact a pussy ass …aallllwwwaaayysssss)

        I don’t fuck with these at all ever, I get the fuck out of the water.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Oceanic white tips? 10ft long roided out aquatic honeybadger that can smell your fear from 40 miles away…and it has nothing better to do today.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 month ago

    Don’t you blaspheme in here! Hammerheads are right in there at the top!!

    Mako #1, obvs. But that’s cool.

      • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        Oh please. More like Not-so-great White amirite?! Ha haaa!

        Nah, just joshin’. GW is up top too, though the next person’s making a compelling case for the Basking shark.

  • s_s@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    1 month ago

    What about the hammerhead shark guys who looked like bebop and rocksteady?

    Am I imagining them?

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    1 month ago

    “They called him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning…” But Hammerhead is a baddie and sharks aren’t supposed to be baddies any more. Sharks are friends, not threats. So Hammerhead slipped quietly into the distance to await his time of glory, when one day he will return to rule the Ocean with an iron fist head.

    Incidentally, dolphins have had a troubled role-reversal in the fashion of popular opinion too. They were friends! Companions! Even amusements for a while, before everyone agreed they should be free. Now they are wanton rapists and bullies. Shed a tear for the poor, maligned dolphin, carrying the disgrace of his ill-behaved friends and relations. All Dolphins Are Not Bad.

    One day the Bottlenose and the Hammerhead will return as friends, splendorous and loved. But will they find the World worthy of their love? Or will they leave, with a parting farewell, and a thanks for all the fish.

      • Egg_Egg@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Fun fact: If you’ve said “Fuck you whale”, you don’t need to say “fuck you dolphin” as all dolphins are whales anyway. It would be like saying “Fuck you, Great apes (Hominidae) and fuck you human”

        But you can say it if you want, it’s just superfluous, but many of life’s pleasures are.

    • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      That cartoon was on TV when I was VERY young, I always wanted to watch it, but I was never allowed to have the TV to myself so I was always overruled by my golden-child brothers and sisters

  • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    1 month ago

    I watched the OG Jurassic Park the other weekend, and realized I haven’t thought about a triceratops in probably a decade at least.

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  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    hammer heads have more of those electrical sensory organs than any other sharks. They’re awesome! Great-white-sharks are for basic bitches.

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    No love for the goblin shark? They’re even weirder looking than the hammerhead!