In the ocean there are magnificent beasts, but none are as
feared as the shark! This specimen can weigh up to 2,500 pounds and has
300 teeth that never stop growing. They hunt relentlessly, searching for an
easy meal, and when they find it…alright sharks have a bad reputation.
This is a report on the “terror of the deep”.
Here’s the question: do sharks attack humans? Yes.
Do they mean to attack humans? Most of the time no.
Sharks think humans are intolerable. For example,
the shark is hunting a turtle, but sees a human on a surf board and thinks
it’s a turtle! It thinks the board is a shell, the arms and legs are fins,
and the head is a head. That is how it mistakes a turtle delicacy
for you.
Sharks only kill on average 5-6 humans a year.
Come’on! You are more likely to die from a hotdog! Food and humans
kill a grand total of 100,000,000 sharks a year. A common myth on sharks
is that they are invincible. But they are killed by humans, orcas, and
other sharks.
Do sharks help the eco system? Yes. (If that was hard to swallow
re-read the sentence.) In the ocean sharks help the environment.
So if the sharks were gone, their snacks (weaker sharks, big fish etc.)
would eat alllll the littler fish and grow out of control, and then they
would have nothing to eat and end marine life as we know it.
If you take away predators, then prey would eat all plants
and end marine life as we know it!
Sharks by C.E.D
