Do you like to watch?
And how much do you cherish your privacy? How
much do you enjoy keeping the dark corners of your life dark,
circle of trust tight, sheet pulled over your naked body, Mark
Zuckerberg outside tapping on your window like the woman in that
early 1990’s Mervyn’s
commercial, repeating “Open, open, open…”?
If you are anything like me then quite a bit. I didn’t grow up
in the Snapchat age where every scrunchy face, every pancake with
chocolate chips is posted for the world to see. My scrunchy faces
and chocolate chip pancakes are mine and mine alone.
Environmentalists, likewise, feel that the “man-eating” Great
White shark’s toothy grin and male femur he’s snacking upon should
be his and his alone. That his “horizontal mambo” should stay
between him and his partner or partners but shark researchers very
much disagree, pitting the two against each other in a potentially
violent battle of sensitive wills.
As you know, the prehistoric beasts have reached record numbers
off the America’s eastern seaboard. There they thrash about,
man-eat, terrify and snap and you know because many of these are
tagged then tossed back into the sea to thrash about, man-eat,
terrify and snap some more and maybe even try to get laid all why
getting tracked by you, me, shark researchers.
Environmentalists feel this tagging amounts to an invasion of
privacy and we must go to USA
Today for the very latest.
A tagged 10-foot, 3-inch 564-pound great white shark called
“Shaw” by researchers is making his way south along the New Jersey
coast from Nova Scotia.
Following the shark is a growing debate about whether the
gains to be had over the intrusion into the shark’s life is worth
any potential long-term harm to the animal.
Shaw was tagged near Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, on Oct. 1,
during OCEARCH’s Expedition Nova Scotia 2019. He took two weeks to
reach the New Jersey coast.
The group placed satellite tracking SPOT-tags on 11 great
white sharks on the expedition. It also conducted health and
reproductive assessments and collected vital scientific samples
from the sharks, such as fecal samples.
OCEARCH’s method of tagging and sampling of the sharks
continues to draw scrutiny in the scientific community.
The group brings the sharks aboard a vessel while the SPOT
tag is placed on the animal’s dorsal fin. The shark’s belly is cut
open and an acoustic tag is placed inside.
Heather Bowlby, the research lead at the Canadian Atlantic
Shark Research Laboratory, told the Canadian press they’ve shifted
away from bringing sharks on board a boat because the animals lack
a rib cage to hold up their body weight when they’re out of
water.
Gregory Skomal, a shark researcher with
the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, told the
Canadian press, he’s concerned about long-term problems
OCEARCH’s methods may cause on the reproductive success of the
animal from the interaction.
OCEARCH has defended its methods. Robert Hueter, from
Florida’s Mote Marine Laboratory and one of the group’s chief
scientists, was quoted in the Canadian press as saying the
criticism about unknown, long-term impacts are “speculation without
data.”
So there we have it. A potential problem as it relates to the
“reproductive success” of the vicious misanthropes.
Do you think that Great Whites care about the feelings of their
partners?
Are they tender lovers?
I find it hard to believe but will be following along thanks to
OCEARCH’s shark sex
cams.