Mark,

You are 99% right. But I still don't believe that human beings are a kind of
typical shark prey, even knowing that I'm not in the top of the live chain
when I'm diving ;-))

Sharks that attack in Recife are bull sharks and can be included in the 10%
that you listed below. Researchs done by Universidade de Pernambuco
discovered that bull shark does not eat the surfers they attack. They leave
the leg or the arm after they noticed that it's not the prey they originally
thought. Unfortunately, sharks are not very well educated and do not return
the leg or the arm to the victim saying "Sorry for the misunderstanding!"
;-))

All the best,

Eduardo


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De: ferreter [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Enviada em: Quarta-feira, 22 de Setembro de 1999 05:27
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Assunto: Re: [CONCH-L] Off Topic - sharks and predators


Eduardo , you wrote " But don't forget that sharks are the garbage
>cleaners of the oceans.

Though most sharks are omnivorious some (nurse shark) are mollusk eaters ,
they (the nurse sharks ) can apply great suction to strombus gigas and thus
are able to free the animal from it's SHELL (no NSR here).

Megamouth and whale sharks feast upon planton , krill, and small fishes.

The greeanland shark is a bottom molluskeater , I.E. scallops cockles and
the like .

Mako , white and about 10 others like human on a stick or seals as you
stated .

but then there are several hundreds that eat just about anything that can
fit in the mouth . sort of like ,,,,,,,,humans .....ferret