2007-05-26 08:22:51 · 11 answers · asked by frank t 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
No when it comes to blood it is strictly the smell. However there is sound involved with blood on another level.
When blood is in the water (other than something like chum fishing) chances are that there was some type of struggle that lead to the injury/blood. It is sound pattern of that incident that also quickly attracts sharks. A sharks sense of smell is insane, but when it comes to senses many scientists argue that their sense of hearing takes the cake.
Sharks are greatly attracted to abnormal sounds in the water thus is one of the reasons they are so attracted to beaches at the time. People playing and splashing about in the water is like gold to them. So on the same note, the sound pattern a sick/injured fish, seal, whale, human etc makes while tryin to swim or escape draws them just the same. If that fish, seal, human whatever is bleeding on top of that it is going to draw them that much faster.
2007-05-26 12:54:40 · answer #1 · answered by The Cheshire 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it. I also doubt that sharks are driven crazy.
The world undersea is full of sounds. Not sure one little drop of blood going plop would matter.
It is well documented that sharks have an intensive sense of "smell". Sharks are often attracted from many miles by blood in the water. No doubt they are attacked to distress calls from other animals as well. The "scent" of blood in water is a feeding call. Sounds might get ignored, but blood in water wont.
2007-05-26 08:47:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Firstly sharks have all the senses we have smell, taste, touch, eyesight and hearing.
A sharks primary sense is a keen sense of smell. It can detect one drop of blood in a million drops of water which also tells you it can smell blood from miles away. Its paired nostrils are on the underside of its snout. Water continually flows through the nostrils, giving the shark olfactory information.
Sharks can also detect electricity, which is emitted in small amounts by every living animal and they may be more sensitive to electric fields than any other animal.
Sharks are also very sensitive to low frequency sounds and have good directional hearing. Sound also carries faster through water than it does air.
2007-05-27 01:57:52 · answer #3 · answered by artistic_butterfly88 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw the Mythbusters, they screwed up. They used human blood with a small shark that only eats fish. There is no advantage for that shark to sense mammal blood. They should have tested it on a shark that actually eats mammals. I would bet the result would have been different.
2016-05-18 03:47:48 · answer #4 · answered by mandi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not sound but sense of smell.
they can smell even a single drop of blood from 1 mile away!
dats y some species of shark r calld as DOGfish
2007-05-29 19:39:33 · answer #5 · answered by parth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uhh...no. Blood doesn't pop anywhere unless itsbeing fried (ewwww).
And I thought sharks were more attracted to movement, not sound...?
2007-05-26 09:02:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no dude it's not the sound it is the smell, sharks have an incredible sense of smell and it has been proven that they can smell blood up to one mile away.
2007-05-26 08:29:28 · answer #7 · answered by ReconSix 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's the smell. Haven't you ever watched Finding Nemo. Bruce was attracted to the smell.
2007-05-26 08:31:55 · answer #8 · answered by imyourguy8675 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what? like the ocean doesn't have waves crashing around? how would one plop of blood drives them crazy?
2007-05-26 08:27:09 · answer #9 · answered by ablair67 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just a crazy theory
2007-05-26 08:26:01 · answer #10 · answered by subbu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋