Sharks Need Love Too Cold-blooded killers, heartless monsters, vicious beasts: these are a few descriptions that are used to define the most feared predator of the sea, the shark. The reputation the media has put into our heads is making a species so vital to our marine ecosystem become closer and closer to extinction when sharks are not even interested in humans in the first place. Here is a paper showing the very rarely showed, good side to sharks.
Reputation is defined as: the beliefs or opinions that are generally held about someone or something. We have been told from a young age ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ yet we continue to judge by reputation and appearance. Sharks reputations have made them out to be ruthless killers that will rip humans to shreds limb by limb, but less than 10 attacks a year end in a fatality. Those spear like rows of teeth, human length extending jaws, bodies the size of the boats we ride in, and that dorsal fin on their backs shown so vigorously coming at us are the main reasons for the public’s fear of sharks. We cannot keep having negative outlooks on …show more content…
They are at the top of the food web and help to regulate the populations of the other creatures that make up the big blue. A program called Shark Savers, a combined group of biologists, scientists, and members of the public who are all devoted to protecting sharks, proclaims “Sharks are at the top of the food web and are considered by scientists to be “keystone” species, meaning that removing them causes the whole structure to collapse”(“Sharks’ Role In The Ocean”). Intelligence is the best word to describe the manner in which sharks hunt for prey. Sharks feed on the weakest limbs of the bunch and by doing so they help the populations around them become healthier and stronger. By killing sharks, we are killing out marine ecosystem. Sharks were here 450 million years before us and sharks should be here 450 million years after
Reputation is defined as: the beliefs or opinions that are generally held about someone or something. We have been told from a young age ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ yet we continue to judge by reputation and appearance. Sharks reputations have made them out to be ruthless killers that will rip humans to shreds limb by limb, but less than 10 attacks a year end in a fatality. Those spear like rows of teeth, human length extending jaws, bodies the size of the boats we ride in, and that dorsal fin on their backs shown so vigorously coming at us are the main reasons for the public’s fear of sharks. We cannot keep having negative outlooks on …show more content…
They are at the top of the food web and help to regulate the populations of the other creatures that make up the big blue. A program called Shark Savers, a combined group of biologists, scientists, and members of the public who are all devoted to protecting sharks, proclaims “Sharks are at the top of the food web and are considered by scientists to be “keystone” species, meaning that removing them causes the whole structure to collapse”(“Sharks’ Role In The Ocean”). Intelligence is the best word to describe the manner in which sharks hunt for prey. Sharks feed on the weakest limbs of the bunch and by doing so they help the populations around them become healthier and stronger. By killing sharks, we are killing out marine ecosystem. Sharks were here 450 million years before us and sharks should be here 450 million years after