I’ve known muskies to do something similar- swim around at the surface with their head out of the water.
I remember looking into it, and it’s definitely a thing, but no one seems to know why exactly they do it. There’s a few theories that have to do with the oxygen concentration at the surface, regulating temperature, buoyancy, etc. but the one I personally like to subscribe to is the same as this, that they’re just looking around.
It makes me feel a little less bad about not being able to catch one if they’re at least more intelligent and curious than the average bass or bluegill or whatever else I’m pulling out of their lake.
Lookin fer’ birds to eat.
Source - Ima shark.
Muskies are basically freshwater sharks.
So, gonna go with… probably looking for a duck to eat, or something.
Orcas do it too
One of the few dangerous shark for humans is the Bull Shark, they are very agressive and really attack everything, also humans. Even Spielberg regret the damage made by his Shark movie, relating the white shark as agressive killer monster, it isn’t.
Plenty of people swim with bullsharks and hand feed them. Sharks are dangerous when you act like easy prey. Easy prey bleeds, it struggles, and it turns away from the predator to flee. That white shark didn’t bite Valerie Taylor because there was easier food, and she was aware of the shark.
Check the link for what happens when you act like prey around these animals. (Trigger warning : shark attack, if it wasn’t obvious)
Wrong, they do it so you can boop the snoot
Yes, really, great white sharks are not an agressive man eater, accidents ocurred by confusing a swimmer or diver with a seal, biting these to notice the error. But naturally with this bite you miss 5 kg of your body, the sorry from the shark then don’t help really.
Mark [The sea captain]: Oh . . . I used to be the captain of my own cruise ship. It was the kind of boat folks rent for weddings, parties, you know, that kind of thing. But on the night in question it had been rented for a prom. Oh, the girls looked so lovely in their dresses, the boys such fine little gentlemen in their tuxedos. They were all drinking and dancing and spiking the punch. I was dizzy with delight when suddenly - my ship sank. We all went into the water. Then came Skoora, picking us off one by one by one by one. Till only I was left. And as he bore down on me, he paused as if to say, “What can I do? I’m a shark. I eat.” And then he cut me in half, cut me right in half - my wife measured me, I’m exactly half my former length. But as he swam away with my lower extremeties dangling from his jaw, I swear to god he was crying.
Kevin: Crying?
Mark: Yes, crying. Oh to be sure, he’s a brutal killing machine. But he shows more remorse than I’ve ever seen in a human.
Who knew sharks were nosy fuckers.
He’s got an eye on where you are as well as where you could flee to (If you were normal prey). Casing the joint lol
Dun-uhn…
