Re: SHARKS DO NOT EAT SEA OTTERS (a breaking discovery... of mine, ; ))
- From: "Marc Verhaegen" <fa204466@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:39:38 +0200
"Mario Petrinovich" <mario.petrinovic1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Well, I always suspected that sharks don't eat humans because they don't
like our taste. Sharks always ate fish. The always did, the never ate
anything else, all throughout their long history. Sea lions are eating fish.
Their meat has odor on fish. Sharks eat sea lions. They are attacking humans
only because a shape of human on a surf board resambles the shape of a sea
lion. But they are only probing humans. When they do, they find out that we
don't have a taste on fish, so they spit us. The only problem is that
probing can be fatal. The same thing is in the murky waters of Australia.
Sharks sense our movements, but don't see us. They are comming closer, but
still don't see what is the thing that moves. The water there is so murky
that even when they come completly close, the still don't know what we are.
And finaly they probe us. Well, an half ours ago it occured to me that
sea otters have similar diet we were suppose to have during our aquatic
stage. In that case shark wouldn't eat otters too. Well, they DO NOT. The
link www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/05/07/MN178297.DTL
"Oddly, the sharks do not appear to be eating the otters they kill. "They
appear to be checking them out, in the way sharks do, with a little nip,"
Kreuder said. "But a little shark nip is major damage to a little sea
otter."" -- Mario
Thanks a lot, Mario. I don't knolw whether it has anything to do with taste,
but there are a few remarkable convergences between human ancestors &
sea-otters, eg, tool use, dentitional features, handiness... A.Walker
1981"Diet and teeth - dietary hypotheses and human evolution"
Phil.Trans.R.Soc.Lond.B 292:57-64: "If a mammalogist were asked which
mammalian molars most resembled those of Australopithecus, the answer would
probably be orang-utan molars. If asked to look outside the order Primates,
the answer would probably be the molars of the sea otter (Enhydra lutra). Th
is species possesses small anterior teeth, and large, flat molars with thick
enamel."
--Marc
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