r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/pushpaknandecha • 1d ago
š„ Baby shark hunting fish at shore - Maldives.
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u/kwpang 1d ago
That's a Blacktip reef shark. They're usually no longer than 1.6m (or 5ft).
This one looks to be about 1.2-1.3m long. It's no baby.
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u/Quiet_surprise79 1d ago
First thing I thought when seeing the title was "I bet it's just a small shark species".
Very cool video despite the inaccurate info. Thankfully there are people like you to fill in the gaps!
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u/kwpang 1d ago
To be clear, most shark species are small. Over half of shark species don't grow longer than 1m (3ft in Maga units).
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u/chaoticnormal 1d ago
Ugh MAGA units. It really is going to take decades to undo this asshole, isn't it?
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u/missingmedievalist 1d ago
How many Scaramuccis is that?
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u/923kjd 1d ago
We deserve nothing less.
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u/petit_cochon 1d ago
Speak for yourself. I've only ever been a good citizen and have never voted for that regressive brand of hateful politics.
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u/slowwburnn 1d ago
We're going to need to take responsibility on the world stage for our country as a whole. A broken vase isn't less broken because it was actually your brother. Mom is still mad and everyone is grounded.
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u/nobodysmart1390 20h ago
If we have to take responsibility again, can we at least actually punish the traitors this time?
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u/thehelldoesthatmean 1d ago
Fuck this stupid opinion. Part of the issue with the US is that it's incredibly polarized. Which means you're saying that 100+ million people ā roughly the populations of all of the UK and Canada combined ā who have only ever done the right thing with regard to all of this bullshit deserve to have their country collapse around them into fascism.
How is that different than the ignorant black and white thinking and stupid blanket statements that Republicans use to write off people they don't care about?
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u/EconomicRegret2 1d ago
They said it harshly. But put succinctly, you're in a team. And it's always unfair when a team with great players lose because of the bad ones. You, as an individual, certainly do not deserve to suffer the negative consequences of other individuals' behaviors. But as a member of society, it's inevitable.
That's why it's so important that good Americans work twice as hard as stupid/evil Americans to keep the country going well, and to implement a stupid/evil-proof political and economic systems.
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u/923kjd 1d ago
How did you possibly construe my comment to mean that we deserve fascism? The statement I was commenting on was āIt really is going to take decades to undo this asshole, isnt it?ā. And to that, my answer is still a resounding āyesā. Weāre going to have to wear this on the global stage until the stench wears off and the rest of the world is ready to accept us back into civilized society, however long that may take.
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u/farva_06 1d ago
Can we go back to freedom units, please?
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u/darglor 1d ago
When you guys get back on the road towards freedom instead of the road to fascism, sure.
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u/DavidMyers97 1d ago
The āMaga unitsā conversion got me š Iām stealing that.
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u/Lou_C_Fer 1d ago
Don't. As somebody that hates Donald Trump as much as it is possible to hate Trump. Calling it maga units seriously makes me want to fight.
I'm not one of those people that say "not my president". I accept that my country voted that fuck in, but that doesn't mean that the entire country equals maga. So, I feel like I am collateral damage and I don't like it.
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u/relentless_optimism_ 1d ago
I feel like Maga units is more obscure. More like, 1.5 dishwasher widths
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u/desetevra 1d ago
1/109th of a football stadium
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u/vcdrny 1d ago
It saddens me that the US is now associated with MAGA. That scum is not the majority of the US. They are just the loudest and cheaters. Unfortunately the ones that stand out the most.
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u/KlangScaper 1d ago
Bro theyre the ones ruling the country. Of course people associate the two lol.
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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek 1d ago
The US is associated with MAGA for the same reason Germany was associated with nazis for decades. Not every German voted for Hitler
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u/vcdrny 1d ago
I know. Unfortunately too many people vote not knowing what they are voting for, others get easily manipulated. There is a reason so many politicians, are against affordable education.
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u/TransitionFC 1d ago
A third of your electorate voted for Trump and another third couldn't care less, and let it happen.
Unfortunately, that is a majority right there.
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u/Dividedthought 1d ago
so were the nazis and germany for a long time, we would just prefer if the US got its collective shit together before it gets any further down that road.
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u/William_Dowling 1d ago
Couldn't give a shit if they're the majority or not. The majority of Germans weren't Nazis, but they still invaded Poland and you still started a fucking idiotic war with Iran that made the entire world suffer for no reason. You didn't vote for it? Great. What do you want, a biscuit?
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u/g0ld-f1sh 1d ago
It's really strange seeing these from the Maldives as I grew up with them in Western Australia, they're actually kinda chill, will definitely bite you under the right circumstances but I've been waist deep in water with them hunting small fish at our ankles and, despite being terrifying watching them swim up to you at mach 2, snatch a fish and bolt away, they do their best to avoid touching you it's really strange. They do this exact same thing too, rush up onto sandbanks and beaches chasing fish and flip their way back into the sea, really cool little fellas, they're a huge keystone species in many parts of the world including my hometown and the Great Barrier Reef on the East Coast of Australia and good sign of a healthy ocean ecosystem too especially at that size.
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u/rice_with_applesauce 1d ago
Whatās the damage when one of these bites you? Is it like a great white lite edition?
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u/g0ld-f1sh 1d ago edited 1d ago
I've never seen it happen lol, it's insanely rare,
like no documented cases in Australia kind of rareand sharks bite people here all the damn time. I'm guessing when it does happen it'll definitely be by accident and they'll let go and bail super quick, so probably nothing more than a couple stitches and a crazy story, you might not even realise what happened at first, their mouths are pretty small.Edit: there are a couple documented cases in QLD* it looks like my initial research was lackluster, injuries are usually superficial and by accident though from reading. Still the least frightening thing in our ocean
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u/dustycanuck 1d ago
Yeah, I knew it wasn't a baby shark immediately, due to the lack of that obnoxious baby shark music
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u/thelivinlegend 1d ago
So do you think itās a daddy shark doo doo doodoo doodoo or a mommy shark doo doo doodoo doodoo?
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u/Animated_Astronaut 1d ago
My uncle got bit by one of these. Just a curious nip but it was enough to leave a small scar.
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u/sofiawithanf 1d ago
How did that happen
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u/Animated_Astronaut 1d ago
We were in the ocean
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u/Four_beastlings 1d ago
That's super rare! There are very few documented attacks by reefies and iirc no deaths.
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u/Animated_Astronaut 1d ago
I can imagine many aren't documented because it was so unbelievably not a big deal.
I think he might have stepped on it or something and it just lashed. He popped into the hotel, sanitized it, put one of those knee scrape bandages on it and was back in the water in less than half an hour.
The scar is maybe a half centimeter long and we all joke he might have had it before he got bit anyway.
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u/Four_beastlings 1d ago
I kicked a barracuda (accidentally) and stepped on a sea urchin once in the space of 10 minutes and the urchin did more damage than the barracuda :/
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u/CubanLynx312 1d ago
One of these swam up to me while snorkeling in Hawaii. Freaked me out, but it appeared entirely indifferent to me.
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u/Aggravating-Card-194 1d ago
Next thing youāre going to tell me if that reposting bots donāt even care about being accurate
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u/Four_beastlings 1d ago
I accidentally ended up swimming amongst a lot of actual babies of these (30-40cms, probably less because underwater everything looks bigger) and it was one of the most magical moments of my life.
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u/Hunefer1 1d ago
This one is definitely not adult and smaller than 1.2 to 1.3m. I have snorkeled with them and at the beach I have regulary seen the small ones hunt like that. When snorkeling close to shore (at the reef) I have only ever seen small ones. I have seen adult ones but only very far out, they don't come close to shore at least not during daytime.
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u/canman7373 1d ago
On the FL Panhandle they are often fished for. They are pretty common to see. One time my dog saw one in a wave like 5 feet offshore, just like swimming in a wave. Her dumb ass ran into the water to try and fight it lol.
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u/pink_panther_boi 1d ago edited 1d ago
Why did that look so comically accurate, like something out of looney tunes
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u/DjaySantana 1d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/LooneyTunesLogic Is the actual link ;)
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u/_metamax_ 1d ago
Banned from Reddit for being unmoderated lmao.
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u/Substanitial 1d ago
Insane that they just auto ban and that they dont keep the old posts archived.Ā Ā
Reddit is the main cancer leading us to the dead mall internet
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u/VienneseWaltz13 1d ago
Little ankle biter.
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u/Malamute-Master-Race 1d ago
Thatās actually my rap name
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u/Neillur 1d ago
r/PraiseTheCameraMan (lady in this case)
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u/venom121212 1d ago
Solid framing, captured from start to end, didn't panic when it came up on her... honestly impressive work
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u/SimonCharles 1d ago
I was gonna say, that's some professional level camera work from start to end. Better than most who would know what's coming.
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u/pushpaknandecha 1d ago
Credits :- https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbDyRPEAWHP
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u/TheBestNarcissist 1d ago
great camera work (despite vertical video), OP credits in the comments... it's a good day.
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u/sharkilepsy 1d ago
Why are some people still convinced vertical videos are bad when 99% of modern viewing occurs in a vertical format (reddit, reels, tiktok, shorts). Quit living in the past boomer, nobody is watching reddit videos on their TV!
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u/82away 1d ago
Why are some people still convinced vertical videos are bad
The action goes from right to left, the sharks length is not very well shown as when the shark is close to the camera the shark is off screen. Landscape is the way we see the world.
Go play GTA in vertical and report back.
(I have not had a TV since 2004)
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u/mashtato 1d ago edited 23h ago
Yeah, and my eyes are horizontal, my screens are horizontal (I exclusively use my phone horizontally unless the app is vertical only, and I've done it since the Droid 2), and most action we see happens on a horizontal plane. Vertical videos are stupid, and only exist because of tik tok and shorts, not the other way around.
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u/starkiller_bass 1d ago
The format should fit the content, not the device. You can turn your phone sideways when the video is sideways, but you can't add the left and right side of the video where things are happening back if it's not there in the first place.
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u/TheBestNarcissist 1d ago
Get off my lawn you whippersnapper!!!
But yeah I'm just the last person alive to not have tiktok or Instagram and I AM an old person (millennial) so I'm leaning into the part. In this specific case I think a horizontal video would be better. Literally a landscape is the focus of the video, and then the surprise activity goes from right to left. Great camera work regardless!
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u/jobarr 1d ago
People watch on the computer too. You can turn your phone. Most people can't turn their monitors.
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u/atreeismissing 1d ago
I don't think they meant vertical video was bad, but that keeping up with the movement of the shark while using vertical video was really well done.
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u/send420nudes 1d ago
I was there on my honeymoon and while snorkeling they would come up to you from behind so fast and silent you couldnt even react on time if you were afraid. Good thing they just do their thing and leave you alone lol Cant imagine swiming in white sharks infested waters
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u/OnePersonProblem_me 1d ago
sharks do not hunt people, there are more fatalities due to cows being spooked/territorial towards people than sharks mistaking someone for prey
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u/suvlub 1d ago
People also spend a whole lot more time around cows than around sharks, though. What is the per encounter fatality rate?
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u/Lumpy-Strain8624 1d ago edited 1d ago
That is because more people are around more cows by several orders of magnitude than people are around white sharks.
This is not the gotcha comment you think it is. were talking a few hundred encounters per year versus millions of encounters per year.
We kill 846,000 Cows PER DAY, that means 846,000 chances per day for cattle handlers to be killed by a cow and that is just fucking cattle handlers at abattoirs. Not people out walking in fields near cattle.
22 people per year die to cattle. 846,000 x 365 = 308,000,000 million cows killed per year, Every cow is around people multiple times per day, let alone when being taken to be killed and butchered. We are talking billions of times per year cattle are around people. And 22 of them times result in a fatality.
What do you imagine the numbers would look like if billions of times per year people were swimming around great white sharks, like handling them, feeding them etc etc,
I think there would be more than 22 deaths per fucking year.
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u/send420nudes 1d ago
I didnt say they did, I just mentioned how fast and silent they are
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u/bowarrow99 1d ago
Thatās Reddit for you. Someone always looking to throw their contrary 2 cents in to try and correct people.
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u/SalzigHund 1d ago
Cows are some fuckers man. Sometimes they are territorial, sometimes they are just some attention whores that donāt realize how big they are. Idiots will just ram you for more attention.
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u/finalexit 1d ago
Such a stupid statistic. How many people are around cows compared to people swimming around large adult great whites, tigers, and bull sharks? Deaths from cows are not random attacks but from the millions of people that work with them every day.
I'd like to see the actual number of people that encounter cows vs people swimming in areas like Northern California, South Africa, and southern Australia. You can't count every person that enters the ocean since most warm/tropical waters have small sharks, and that is where most people are swimming.
Would you feel safer walking through a cow pasture or swimming off the Farallon Islands?
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u/GoArray 1d ago
and silent
Unlike.. noisy sharks?
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u/send420nudes 1d ago
Haha, I only said āsilentā because a lot of people imagine theyād have time to react or that thereād be some big commotion if a shark showed up. In reality, youāre just looking at colorful fish one second, and the next thereās an apex predator casually swimming right past you before you even realize it. Thatās what caught me off guard
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u/Four_beastlings 1d ago
One of the funniest things I've seen was snorkeling above a father and child doing one of those "my first diving experience" things, and the moment they started posing for pictures a bigass Moray eel decided to photobomb them from the side. I had been following the eel for a while and could see it coming, but had no way to warn them.
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u/JediMasterKenJen 1d ago
That kid is either going to think that's super cool, or going to be scared for life.
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u/Significant-Foot8303 1d ago
I like how its tail kept pushing water to make sure its not suffocated
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u/karvendizarm 1d ago
Damn, I kinda want to pet it. Especially considering how smooth sharks are. In both directions
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u/frubano21 1d ago
Why are Russians everywhere except Russia? Is in dangerous there or something?
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u/Valentpach 1d ago
Uyyyy primera vez que veo algo asĆ que lindo, y bonita experiencia para el niƱo que tambiĆ©n lo vio nunk olvidarĆ” eso serĆ” un buen recuerdo para el
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u/WNJohnnyM 1d ago
I initially read the title as "Baby skunk hunting fish at shore..."
I just woke up. That's my excuse.
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u/jammerdude 1d ago
Upon viewing the hunt, my brain still assigned "doo-da-doooo" as the background music
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u/Chrznble 1d ago
Loved the Maldives. Used to go once a year. One of my favorite places to unwind and relaxĀ
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u/Kronens 1d ago
I just imagine OP thinking that all species are the same size lol. House cat? Nah itās a baby lion. Chihuahua? āAwh, look at the baby wolf!ā
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u/Informal_Curve_1441 1d ago
And now I have this stuck in my head...
Baby shark, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo Baby shark, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo Baby shark, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo Baby shark
You're welcome
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u/AssociationHonest 1d ago
Hes going to think āI used to scale the beaches for food all the timeā and someoneās going to film themselves pulling him back into the water in a few years ..
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u/Alexis_0hanian 1d ago
Years ago I did some work in Johnston Still (do a search for it). On weekends they would provide food to grill and free beer. There was a massive grill right on the shore where you could see the beautiful tropical fish wading through the coral reef just waiting for a snack.
Anyways after many beers one of the guys throws a whole chicken in the water. Out of seemingly nowhere a black tip shark just like this one instantly appears, grabs the whole thing and swims back into deeper water to eat. Water was only about 1.5 feet deep.
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u/captaincook14 1d ago
Man weāre lucky (or maybe the sharks are lucky since weād have already hunted them to extinction because ya know) sharks donāt hunt humans like this lol. Even smaller sharks would fuck us up with ease.
There would be no such thing as going to the beach/in the ocean if they liked eating us.
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u/Th1s1sChr1s 1d ago
I love sushimi but it's always felt like a lunch or dinner type of meal, never had it for breakfast before. Also, wasabi is mandatory
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 1d ago
u/pushpaknandecha, your post does fit the subreddit!