• LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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    1. Great white (no question)
    2. Whale shark (controversial, but extremely impressive in person due to their size)
    3. Tiger shark (your archetypal mean aggressive dangerous shark)
    4. Hammerhead
    5. Those ones that look like they have hedge trimmers for noses

    Whale shark to me has been the big climber (although I may be biased because I lived in atlanta and saw constant ads for the atl aquarium) along with the revelation that tiger sharks are actually the most dangerous to humans.

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    This is a clamshell shark, it’s not a hammerhead, lots of people confuse clamshell, scallopshell and hammerhead sharks as the all have that T shape, but there’s physical differences and differences in there pattern of sensing electrical impulses :o)

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    There are a lot fewer of them around now than when I was a kid. The trend continues down as we keep doing mass commercial fishing the way we do.

    Wikipedia

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      Damn, that’s a depressing Wikipedia article:

      It is estimated that around 375,000 great hammerhead sharks alone are traded per year which is equivalent to 21,000 metric tons of biomass. However, most sharks that are caught are only used for their fins and then discarded. The meat of hammerheads is generally unwanted.

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        Maybe we should bring back hyping up Hammerhead Sharks again! Could bring awareness to their dwindling population.

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    They have the coolest shark superpower on the underside of their head. They have neurons that are so sensitive to electrical stimulation, they can sense the current generated by muscle contractions of prey buried under the sea floor.

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    My son bough a Fahlo Bracelet, that lets you track endangered animals. His follows a Hammerhead shark that is swimming around the Gulf of Mexico, and has been around Florida for many months.