Shark at the beach. Pic included.

[MF-DIF]

Spotted a shark at the beach last weekend in Panama City. At first it was swimming along shore and then it came onto land. A small 4 footer. A small crowd formed and a women there pulled it out of the water even more and said sharks only come to shore when they are sick. She said pulling it out of the water was the correct procedure. At this point I was dumb founded. Don't sharks need to be in constant motion in the water to breath? I call animal control and the guy on the phone also told me to keep it out of the water. Again I was confused. I had a feeling that this thing was gonna die unless i put it back in but I knew nothing about sharks so I left it alone. Animal control shows up 45 mins later and the little guy was dead. They didnt even take the body. Cell phone pics, you'll have to excuse the quality.

 

[Osiris_x11]

spring-break freak-capital...

hmmmm, from my Ichtyology past- I've never heard of such, "sick sharks come ashore." That may be inherent w/ marine mammals, ie. whales, dolphins, etc... but that's not the case to my knowledge w/ 'fish'. Difficult to say from the pic' as to what shark species it may be, but based on it's coloring and girth I have an inkling (bull, black-tip reef, or sand/nurse)

Anywayz, sad to see a young animal perish.

 

[Zuerst]

I remember reading a book when I was in "elementary school" that shark needs to be in constant motion to move water through their gill so that they can breath since the structures around their gill is a bit different than most other fishes. You should of told that woman that human kind throws her kind into a pool of man eating sharks when they're sick. On a side note, there really isn't man eating sharks. Sharks perfer other source of meat and shark attacks generally happen when the shark mistaken man as their normal source of food; a surfer on a surf board supposely looks like a seal...

Poor shark.

 

[donwon]

Im never going to go swimming in Florida.

 

[nkb]

She said pulling it out of the water was the correct procedure.

The woman was right, the only problem is, you didn't know what her intention was. If her intention was to kill the shark so that it doesn't attack anyone later, she played this one perfectly

As far as animal control, I wonder how much experience they have with sharks. They mostly deal with cats, dogs and such, so who knows whether or not the animal control guy had his head up his ass.

 

[Brian2by2]

Re: spring-break freak-capital...

hmmmm, from my Ichtyology past- I've never heard of such, "sick sharks come ashore." That may be inherent w/ marine mammals, ie. whales, dolphins, etc... but that's not the case to my knowledge w/ 'fish'. Difficult to say from the pic' as to what shark species it may be, but based on it's coloring and girth I have an inkling (bull, black-tip reef, or sand/nurse)

Anywayz, sad to see a young animal perish.

I believe that to be a small bull shark...a very popular species on the west coast of florida.

As far as sick sharks swimming ashore...I would raise the BS flag. I don't believe that sharks swimming ashore to die so that racoons and buzzards can pick at it is part of the life cycle; however, sharks eating their own kind is.

And as to a shark being in motion, I'm not 100% sure but I believe it is the lack of a 'float' bladder and if a shark is to stop swimming, it will literally drown itself.


*When I was 8, I really wanted this toy chain-saw (my dad owned a landscaping company so I thought it cool!) and one morning, my dad told me he had a present and I was excited because I believed it was the chainsaw...instead it was a book all about sharks...on a college level lol.

 

[spartan2-3]

Very interesting to see sharks on the beach.

You guys should see the "guppies" that lurks the "Northern California Coastal Water"

I am never surfing here again .

 

[NeoNSX]

<B>MF-DIF</B> : I think Animal Control had no idea what to do. That's surprising a woman pulled it out of the water; so much for stereotypes of women being afraid of sharks.

<B>Zuerst</B> : no such thing as a man-eating shark??? You've never seen JAWS then, have you?!

<B>brian2by2</B> - a bsflag? I think this is what you're after. <IMG SRC="http://www.buzzlife.com/forums/images/smilies/bs.gif">

 

[severedgein]

its a mako shark. very small, but still a mako. i would have said thresher but the tail isnt tall enough. be glad that it was out of the water and not in.

edit: i didn't even bother to read where he said it was.
most likely a bull shark.

 

[MJK]

Re: Re: spring-break freak-capital...

I believe that to be a small bull shark...a very popular species on the west coast of florida...

The head/body looks the wrong shape to be a bull shark - like it is not 'stocky' enough. A lot of sharks don't scare me at all, but if I see a bull shark I am getting out of the water immediately.

I am certainly no expert, but that looks like a black tipped reef shark to me.

 

[Brian2by2]

Re: Re: Re: spring-break freak-capital...

The head/body looks the wrong shape to be a bull shark - like it is not 'stocky' enough. A lot of sharks don't scare me at all, but if I see a bull shark I am getting out of the water immediately.

I am certainly no expert, but that looks like a black tipped reef shark to me.

It's a small bull-shark...still adolescent.

Mako's are usually silver-blue while bulls are that brown-ish color. Could be a 'sandbar shark'

 

[Sig]

Speaking of sharks... there was a sizeable Great White spotted off the coast of North Carolina last week. Don't hear about those too often over hear on the right coast.

 

[blknsxnoc]

I saw a discovery channel episode during "shark week" that showed some species of shark can stop swimming and survive. I want to say it was the blue shark but not with absolute certainty.

I have seen (with my own eyes), sharks in the gigantic aquarium at the Mirage in Las Vegas that just rest at the bottom like they are taking a nap and do not "drowned".

Someone please pipe in to verify if they have heard or seen something like this.

 

[MF-DIF]

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I have seen (with my own eyes), sharks in the gigantic aquarium at the Mirage in Las Vegas that just rest at the bottom like they are taking a nap and do not "drowned".

Someone please pipe in to verify if they have heard or seen something like this.

Ive seen sharks like this at Sea World just chillin on the bottem of the tank not moving. They where about 4 feet long, had some spots and wide heads.

 

[Brian2by2]

Nurse sharks, sand sharks, and mako sharks can all stop swimming I believe. Nurses can stop because they are already on the bottom, as are sand sharks.

Mako's, i'm not too sure about but I believe they can stop too.

Nurses also change sex during adolescents from male to female...pretty cool stuff actually.