I'm suddenly in the mood for shark-fin soup. I've heard it's quite good.
Time for a swim! :buck2:
Are those Bull sharks? I mention it as NC has recorded shark attacks on humans by Bull sharks. If so, you don't want to go paddling there as they're less discriminating about why they'll snap at especially in a frenzy.
OT: Bull or White sharks were apparently responsible for the NewJersey attacks in 1916, that may have given Peter Benchley inspiration for the book Jaws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_shark_attacks_of_1916
Quote from: Boggit on June 19, 2015, 08:59:33 PM
Are those Bull sharks? I mention it as NC has recorded shark attacks on humans by Bull sharks. If so, you don't want to go paddling there as they're less discriminating about why they'll snap at especially in a frenzy.
OT: Bull or White sharks were apparently responsible for the NewJersey attacks in 1916, that may have given Peter Benchley inspiration for the book Jaws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_shark_attacks_of_1916
Yes, the Jaws story is true.
Also, as an aside, the bull shark has been found as far from the sea as St. Louis, MO in the Mississippi: http://www.in-fisherman.com/news/sharks-in-illinois/
Quote from: LongBlade on June 20, 2015, 09:45:12 AM
Quote from: Boggit on June 19, 2015, 08:59:33 PM
Are those Bull sharks? I mention it as NC has recorded shark attacks on humans by Bull sharks. If so, you don't want to go paddling there as they're less discriminating about why they'll snap at especially in a frenzy.
OT: Bull or White sharks were apparently responsible for the NewJersey attacks in 1916, that may have given Peter Benchley inspiration for the book Jaws.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Shore_shark_attacks_of_1916
Yes, the Jaws story is true.
Also, as an aside, the bull shark has been found as far from the sea as St. Louis, MO in the Mississippi: http://www.in-fisherman.com/news/sharks-in-illinois/
They can live in fresh, or salt water. They also live inland in South America in Lake Titicaca with no link to the sea. They are quite a unique creature. I knew they went up rivers, canals etc - there have been bull shark attacks in Florida's canal system, and around Brisbane (Aus) too, but that isn't too far from the coast. St Louis, Mo is one hell of a way from the sea. I wonder if they are following the Snakehead plague that apparently is plaguing Illinois, amongst other states (according to Jeremy Wade) as a food source?
Bull sharks 20 miles up a South African river.
http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/river-monsters/videos/bull-shark-caught-in-river/
The Snakehead menace:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_snakehead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakehead_(fish)
http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/river-monsters/fish-guide/giant-snakehead/
One of the guys at work, when we were discussing the recent attacks, said a shark had been pulled out of one of the rivers here in West Tennessee a while back, the Forked Deer or one of the others that feed into the Mississippi.
His memory's good for this kind of thing, and when I said, "that sounds like a bull shark", he immediately agreed (and then recalled they can switch to fresh water).
That isn't as far inland, technically, as St. Louis, but it's farther in-land compared to an occasionally mile-wide river!
Sharks gotta eat, same as worms.
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Quote from: JasonPratt on June 23, 2015, 01:13:42 PM
One of the guys at work, when we were discussing the recent attacks, said a shark had been pulled out of one of the rivers here in West Tennessee a while back, the Forked Deer or one of the others that feed into the Mississippi.
His memory's good for this kind of thing, and when I said, "that sounds like a bull shark", he immediately agreed (and then recalled they can switch to fresh water).
That isn't as far inland, technically, as St. Louis, but it's farther in-land compared to an occasionally mile-wide river!
It's not the sort of thing you'd expect to find there, but it a good reason to be cautious if you're thinking of skinny dipping in your local rivers. That said if you ever watch River Monsters (with Jeremy Wade), the very large catfish also seem to be something to be wary of.
I'm not sure we have catfish that large around here -- perhaps in the White River in Arkansas. (Something there was a pretty serious river monster for a while in the 70s, maybe a gar.)
But several places elsewhere have dangerously large catfish, including one of the branches of the Nile if I recall correctly.
What do you guys mean by "dangerously" large? Have catfish ever been known to attack people?
When I was a teen in Michigan, my first gf told me about going swimming in a lake and having someone advise swimmers to get out because an exceptionally large pike was in the water.
A few years before that, also in MI, I was scared out of the lake that my grandparents used to live on by the floating body of a young garpike (or similar species). It wasn't very big but quite unlike anything else I'd ever seen in the water.
Trout Lake near where I went to high school was a very deep lake and home to some very large muskies (muskellunge = very large, scary pike). We were always told not to drag/dangle fingers or toes in the water when out in a boat... muskies like to bit them off! :o
Quote from: Ubercat on June 26, 2015, 10:05:12 AM
What do you guys mean by "dangerously" large? Have catfish ever been known to attack people?
Yes.
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Quote from: Barthheart on June 26, 2015, 10:56:30 AM
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A bad day to be both a frog and a fish.
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What? He told me it was warm in there , I'm not "Gill-Ibul " :o
Quote from: Barthheart on June 26, 2015, 10:19:35 AM
Trout Lake near where I went to high school was a very deep lake and home to some very large muskies (muskellunge = very large, scary pike). We were always told not to drag/dangle fingers or toes in the water when out in a boat... muskies like to bit them off! :o
Pikes and gars have often been appealed to for explaining modern sightings of possible aquatic dinosaurs (or whatever the proper term is now for, well, aquatic dinosaurs ;) ).
But seeing one of those things is quite literally like seeing a living triceratops, tyrannosaur, or mososaur: they all date from the Cretaceous period! (Modern sharks, come to think of it, go back to the Jurassic...)