Blurry video from our local community page! Person filming originally thought they were dolphins, but the rear fin looks vertical to me.

Hard to tell in this video. Apparently large fish were jumping out of the water just before.

It is also the start of bull shark season here!

So shark or dolphin?

Kings Beach, Sunshine Coast Qld

Ok so this is a quick follow up to my screenshot yesterday
https://www.reddit.com/r/sharks/comments/1x2gi0v/so_i_might_be_making_a_game_about_sharks/

I promise I won't spam on this project any further, I'll go radio silent for a while after this post. It seemed to get some interest so I thought I would post a recording. There's tons of ways with the (custom) engine to aim for a particular underwater look. All very early stage of course and quite wonky at times.

And yes I know. It's actually quite terrifying.

Hope you like it!

Would also really appreciate the insight of this group

Photography - king_roberto on Instagram.

My dog accounts for more bites per year than all of the sharks combined.

Unfortunately, she's suffering from fin collapse.

What do you say? Are you vibing with the look?

I'm particularly interested in modelling realistic shark behaviour.

Hello

I recently came across the IUCN Red List and wanted a fun way to discover the species on it, especially the ones close to extinction or already gone. So I made AnimalsMasters, a free card game that runs in your browser.

You open booster packs (a free one arrives every 15min) and collect cards of real animals: each one has its photo, facts about the species and a map of where it was observed. The rarity of a card follows the Red List, from Least Concern to Extinct, so the rarest cards are the species that are closest to disappearing. You can also trade cards with friends.

The data comes from iNaturalist, Wikidata and Wikipedia. I'm not a professional, so if you spot a mistake in a species page, please tell me and I'll fix it.

https://www.animalsmasters.com

Which species would you want to see in the game? Do I miss some?

I'm a solo developer in South Korea, not a researcher, so apologies if I get the terminology wrong.

Since Sept 18 a female dusky shark (Carcharhinus obscurus, about 3 m, ID confirmed by the National Institute of Fisheries Science from the interdorsal ridge) has been living in a man-made canal at Bukhang Waterfront Park in Busan. Three weeks in the same stretch of water. She's become a national story here — over a million people have come to see her.

The city tried twice to guide her out with boats, water cannons and nets. Both times she came back. The second time she cleared the net to get back in, about 100 m short of open water. Authorities have stopped trying and are now waiting to see if she leaves on her own.

What I can't make sense of:

1. No observed feeding in three weeks, in a canal that does hold fish.

2.Water is in the low 20s °C and dropping, and she's near the bottom of the preferred range people give for this species.

3.She had a clear exit and refused it, twice.

I've been logging her position every day from news footage and a live citizen-sighting site, and plotting it as a 3D track of the canal: https://bukangistory.kr/en/ — what surprised me is how tight the path is. She circles a few specific spots instead of using the whole canal.

So my questions:

1. Does this read as site fidelity to something I'm not seeing — an outflow, a thermal layer, structure she's holding on — or does three weeks without feeding point somewhere else?

2. If she does need to go back out, is there anything that works better than nets and water cannons on an animal that's actively choosing to stay?

One more thing that worries me: some visitors shine flashlights at her at night. She thrashed once, hit a stone pillar and scraped her mouth. If there's a known best practice for keeping crowds from stressing an animal in a situation like this, I'd like to pass it on to the people managing the site.

Thanks for reading.

Went on a Shark trip this morning in Oahu, saw 30+ Sandbar, and Gallapagos Sharks, such an incredible opportunity. Enjoy one of my clips from the dive!

My running theory is sandbar due to the size of her fins plus how common they are around here. Would be interested to hear what you all think!

No other one just basking sharks.

I first discovered it when I was 7 and it is the only shark I fear to this day. I genuinely thought it over and would rather be in the water with a Great White then a Basking Shark (albeit I will take Basking over Bull.) I know they have less incidents then Whale Sharks and are quite literally the definition of harmless but it's just the look and the big ass mouth that's so off putting. Does anyone else have this fear?

Whale sharks have long been my favorite animals. Got this beauty last year.

This is my first tattoo ever and I love it! what do you think?

I am curious to know if there are currently any studies happening with the transient white shark population in the Sea of Cortez? Within the spate of 22 months, 3 mollusk divers were killed by white sharks, thought to be large (one was reportedly 19ft) pregnant females. Geographically speaking, all 3 of these white shark fatalities occurred within a 70 mile span of coastline. All 3 were local fishermen, diving on hookah gear in approximately 30-40ft water, collecting mollusks from the ocean floor. We now know the upper Sea of Cortez is a nursery, with the pregnant white sharks arriving between December and January to give birth. Maybe scientists do not want to engage in tagging and tracking them because it would cause stress to the animals in the last stages of their pregnancies. However, considering a white shark birth has never been witnessed, and we know the time of year and where the pregnant white sharks will be, it kinda seems like the perfect opportunity to try and capture that phenomenon. I would love to see the geographical migratory pattern if one of these 🦈 ladies were tagged.

Victor Estrella (February 2022) off Yavaros, Sonora, Mexico

Manuel Lopez (January 2023) in Tobari Bay, Sonora, Mexico

Víctor Alejandro Soto García (December 2023) off Playa Tojahui, Sonora, Mexico

Hey everyone! Please join the LSFSW crew on Instagram and Twitch every Thursday during the month of October for our Halloween series, Blood in the Water, where we review Shark Horror films.

This week, we will be watching "Shark Night"!