http://www.unlikelywords.com/2009/06/12/shark-week-interview-with-shark-expert-george-burgess-part-2/ A blog with delusions of grandeur Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:17:21 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.unlikelywords.com/2009/06/12/shark-week-interview-with-shark-expert-george-burgess-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-117380 Greg Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:48:12 +0000 http://www.unlikelywords.com/?p=4701#comment-117380 I had an observation from watching shark week on discovery. I can't help but wonder if the reason sharks seldomly eat humans is due to the fact our bones (being land animals) are much stronger than fishes and meat on our bones must be stripped from the bones whereas the shark can only eat its food in large chunks bones and all. One experiment I watched where some scientists took a fake leg with a fake human bones in it into a mechanical shark's mouth the mechanical shark could not break the bone with out making a run at the leg. So, chomping on the leg without making a run at it would be problematic for the shark and the shark would really need to strip flesh from the bone the way a lion does but the shark has no hands or legs or paws to hold down its prey to strip the meat. The shark knowing the difficulty in eating land animals (such as us) moves back to eating marine life with its naturally less dense bones where the shark can thrash and tear off chunks of these animals with relative ease. I had an observation from watching shark week on discovery. I can’t help but wonder if the reason sharks seldomly eat humans is due to the fact our bones (being land animals) are much stronger than fishes and meat on our bones must be stripped from the bones whereas the shark can only eat its food in large chunks bones and all. One experiment I watched where some scientists took a fake leg with a fake human bones in it into a mechanical shark’s mouth the mechanical shark could not break the bone with out making a run at the leg. So, chomping on the leg without making a run at it would be problematic for the shark and the shark would really need to strip flesh from the bone the way a lion does but the shark has no hands or legs or paws to hold down its prey to strip the meat. The shark knowing the difficulty in eating land animals (such as us) moves back to eating marine life with its naturally less dense bones where the shark can thrash and tear off chunks of these animals with relative ease.

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