Do you think sharks kill people intentionally or accident?

Question

I'm asking because I think that they are misunderstood. Do you think Shark Hunters should be fined for the wrongs are do you think that they are doing right to the world? Whats your favorite shark?

Answer 1

It depends on the type of shark and the situation.

Many sharks do not harm people, but many will. A great white, for example, eats mainly seals. It can easily mistake a swimming person for a seal. In this case, I'd say, accidentally.

Any large shark will attack if provoked. In this case, the attack is accidentally.

Sharks are carnivores-- they'll eat any living thing they can catch to stay alive. They're not particularly picky eaters.

But, no worries-- more people get hit by lightning than attacked by sharks. :)

Answer 2

Generally, sharks kill people because they think they are seals or fish. Sharks don't even like the taste of human flesh. But if you threaten a shark, it most likely will attack you, like just about any other animal, including humans.

Shark hunting is wrong in every way. Those people should be put in jail for animal cruelty.

My favorite shark is the Great White. I love to watch them jump out of the water off the coast of South Africa to catch seals. I think they are amazing.

Answer 3

No animal kills on accident. Animals have instincts that guide them for the amount of force that is needed if they are acting in self defense, etc. Its only a matter of why they killed and with sharks normally it is a misunderstanding for a human being a food item (ie: surfers looking like seals). Sharks have been proven to NOT humans for food, and often them being undesirable as such. ALL species of shark have been filmed in the open without cages, and no recourse has occurred.

Normally with sharks attacking it's either a misunderstanding of you being prey, or them being provoked by certain actions.

By shark hunters, I take you mean the people that systematically hunt sharks for extermination. Not people that fish for sharks as food. The hunters I think are wrong in what they do because our ecosystem will be damaged by taking a large part out of it. But the fishers, animals are food for humans, and sharks at this time are still legally free game.

Answer 4

Sharks ARE misunderstood. Humans are not a shark's natural food--naturally humans aren't marine animals. I think people don't realize that when we swim into a shark's territory--we're swimming into his house and we have to respect him. When shark attacks occur, usually they spit out the not-so-tasty man that wiggled like a hurt seal.

Shark Hunters SHOULD be fined. Most sharks are on the endangered species list!

My favorite shark is the Tiger Shark.

Answer 5

I watched shark week on the Discovery Channel and I thought it was interesting how they described one species of shark that was being hunted almost to extinction and how this was affecting the balance of life in the ocean. I never thought is could have consequences to us humans who live on land but it does. This certain species of shark ate smaller sharks that normally eat a certain type of fish so when this larger shark was almost hunted to extinction it meant that all the smaller sharks were eating all the fish and that fisherman were getting really small catches and people couldn't get this type of fish in the supermarkets any more. So yes, I think there should be consequences for fisherman who hunt sharks out of existence because it disrupts the balance of life that God and nature created and makes life different for everybody on the planet.

Answer 6

I think sharks that kill humans do so because they see them as food. I can't see how that can be "misunderstood".

But I sense you already have a pro-shark bias, so I don't expect you to agree with me.

Sharks are not humans, they are not people, nor do they deserve identical rights as human beings. While hunters should not kill a species into extinction, neither do I believe they should be fined unduly simply because another set of people believes humans hunting animals violates some moral or ethical code.

Answer 7

Of course they kill intentionally, but the fact is they have every right to and should not be persecuted for it. When we enter thier environment we are automatically accepting the risk of being preyed upon. Sharks should not be killed for preying upon people because we need more predators as it is or we will overpopulate the earth and kill ourselves anyway. My favorite shark is of course the Great White, they are so mysterious and misunderstood very amazing creatures!!

Answer 8

Here is my opinion on sharks. I do not swim in the ocean. I love the ocean, it is beautiful to look at and walk along. But I do not swim in the Ocean...why? because that is the sharks home. I do not invite the shark to my home so why on earth would I go to theirs, especially without being invited. I do not think they are misunderstood at all..they are predators. They are beautiful and fascinating predators.

Answer 9

accidentally. Your in there world when you get into the water. It doesnt really knows wat a human is so if it thinks your a fish then your a fish. If you wear shinny things (there are shinny fishes) it might think your a fish and bit you. If a shark really wanted to kill humans there be a lot more and no survivers. Those are huge creatures do you really think that a human could match up 2 a 400 pound shark?

Answer 10

Yea i think shark hunters should be fined because when they attack sharks the sharks will sooner or later get used to being hunted and attack any human that goes near them.