1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:03,880 Hello and welcome back Shark. Here is to another episode of 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:06,640 Deep dives with sharks. My name is Alex. 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,320 I am still the same weirdo that you've been listening to since 4 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,080 episode 1. Now we've got another shark for 5 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:14,520 you this week. It is another episode of regular 6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:18,240 planned programming, but we will go back to movie analysis and 7 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:21,320 other things to talk about at some point down the road. 8 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,160 Don't you worry. Now I did want to find ways to 9 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:26,680 interact more with the shark. Here is and decided that if I 10 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:29,560 stream and play some fishy theme games that I can chat with you 11 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,240 all in between in episodes. That'd be a decent way to do it 12 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:34,160 so you guys can follow along on Twitch. 13 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:37,000 It's got the same name as the podcast, but there's just no 14 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:38,920 spaces. So it'd be deep dives with 15 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,840 sharks with capital letters for deep dives with sharks. 16 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:46,000 Just easy enough there. I don't really have a schedule 17 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,320 right now for streaming. I'm settling into work and such 18 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:52,000 so it'll smooth out. I'm trying to do at least once a 19 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,200 week, if not twice a week. I think I was aiming for like 20 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:57,920 Tuesdays and Saturdays maybe, but we'll see if that actually 21 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,280 pans out or if I change anything. 22 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,920 You can follow along on the Instagram for updates there. 23 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:06,680 I tend to mention when I'm going to go live and also what game 24 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:08,480 I'm going to be playing. So if you guys want to follow 25 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:10,120 along there, you are more than welcome to. 26 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:13,840 You can also send questions that way or over on the Instagram or 27 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:17,440 Twitter at Deep dives with sharks on Instagram and Twitter 28 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:20,640 at Deep Dive sharks. So the shark that we have for 29 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,120 this week is going to be the Angel shark. 30 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,000 Now to start off, the Angel shark is the only member of the 31 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:31,040 Squintinidae family. Other sharks like Makos, tigers, 32 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,360 and great whites share common families with other sharks, but 33 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,040 not the Angel shark. They're all alone by themselves 34 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,360 being cool little bottom dwellers, which is neat. 35 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,400 They tend to look and get confused for rays a lot. 36 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,920 They have a flat body with long pectoral fins that create a 37 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:48,920 diamond shape that we normally see with rays. 38 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:52,640 They do have a wider tail than rays though, as rays do tend to 39 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,840 have that really thin whip like tail. 40 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:59,920 The Angel shark tends to have a thicker shark like tail and it 41 00:01:59,920 --> 00:02:03,120 also has two dorsal fins that are rather small, but they sit 42 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,480 on top right before the tail there, so they've got that as 43 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:08,919 well. They don't have any fins on 44 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:11,760 their underside, so where their belly is and their face is 45 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,600 rather blunt, adding to that ray appearance because of course 46 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:16,920 when you're looking at a cow nose ray, they have that really 47 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:20,320 blunt face there. Their eyes are small and located 48 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:23,480 on top of their head right before their 5 gill slits, so 49 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:25,840 that's really neat as well. They got those little eyes that 50 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:29,120 help to see especially for what how they hunt, which we'll talk 51 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:30,920 a bit little bit more about later. 52 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,920 These guys grow to be about 7 feet or 2.1 meters and weigh 53 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:41,000 about 77 lbs or 35 kilograms, which golly, that is a decent 54 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,760 sized shark. This actually did surprise me 55 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,840 since in pictures they look like they're about 3 feet long or 56 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,200 maybe about a meter. And I was playing an aquarium 57 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,000 game on the stream and threw probably five of these guys in 58 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,960 an aquarium that was way too small. 59 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:56,400 And I was shocked to find out how big they actually get. 60 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,640 And the game did kind of yell at me a little bit as they were 61 00:02:58,640 --> 00:02:59,920 trying to grow and they could not. 62 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:02,480 But we got it figured out. They're all different tanks now 63 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,280 it works out, but a neat thing about these sharks is that they 64 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:10,200 can get deformities such as scoliosis, humpback curvature, 65 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:14,080 missing or additional fins, deformed snout, and others. 66 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,760 Which is neat that it can happen, but not neat to the 67 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:18,880 shark that it is happening to. It's actually rather 68 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,040 disappointing for them. These can occur due to a variety 69 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:24,280 of reasons, including nutritional imbalance, 70 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:29,000 parasites, genetics, traumatic injury, which I mean, yeah, that 71 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,320 one would kind of easily explain missing fins. 72 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:34,200 You know, you get hit by a boat, that might happen. 73 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,440 Also, stress can do this to them as well. 74 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,720 Not deformities can affect the shark in different ways, such as 75 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,920 mating, eating and swimming, although it may not have any 76 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,360 effect on them at all. So they could have scoliosis and 77 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,520 just be completely fine or that humpback arch and just kind of 78 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:52,680 go about their day. Other times, it makes it a lot 79 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:54,760 harder depending on how severe it is. 80 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:00,040 Now, the Angel shark has jaws that can snap upwards and pointy 81 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:02,920 teeth almost like needles to help catch their prey as they 82 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:06,160 are ambush predators, often burying themselves in the sand 83 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,200 to camouflage so that the prey swim right up to them before 84 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:10,680 they're snatched up to be a snack. 85 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,040 Now, this is kind of similar to what the Wobegong does. 86 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:16,079 As we talked about them before, the Wobegong tends to hang out 87 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:20,079 among coral reefs, and they'll stay perfectly still for hours 88 00:04:20,079 --> 00:04:21,880 at a time. And when fish swim up thinking 89 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,040 that they're safe, they'll snatch them quickly. 90 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,320 But the difference is that the Angel shark is a bottom dweller, 91 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:31,440 so it will stay on the sandy floor, cover itself in sand, and 92 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,280 then when prey swims above it, it'll lunge upwards. 93 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,920 Kind of neat. Now these sharks tend to live in 94 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:42,840 shallower water, anywhere from three to 100 meters or 9.823. 95 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:47,200 Sorry, 328.1 feet. And they Austin live just off 96 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:51,240 the coast of Norway, Sweden, Morocco, and the Canary Islands. 97 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,000 Although their numbers have been declining due to overfishing. 98 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:57,440 So these numbers could sway as they are sometimes found in 99 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:01,280 Belize and Brazil as well, but it's not completely common. 100 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,720 Thankfully, many countries have aimed to help their numbers by 101 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,920 placing fishing bans and similar protections on other vulnerable 102 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,680 populations in the waters, which does also help the Angel shark. 103 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,200 Now, since 2010, the Angel shark has been critically endangered 104 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,440 due to bottom trawling in particular, which is a type of 105 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,040 fishing practice. Efforts are still continuing 106 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,800 around the world to protect the species, especially in Greece 107 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,640 and Turkey currently, which are countries I did not name 108 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:29,320 earlier. But like I said, the numbers do 109 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:33,640 tend to sway pretty much everywhere now they go. 110 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,880 Efforts go so far that there is currently a group known as the 111 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,680 Angel Shark Conservation Network that works with countries to get 112 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:43,840 set up different protective measures for Angel sharks in 113 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:46,120 particular. And sometimes that does involve 114 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,520 protecting the prey that they hunt and sometimes the predators 115 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,920 that would hunt them. It's a saves one part of the 116 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:53,480 ecosystem. You can save a lot of the 117 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,720 ecosystem as well. There are five different species 118 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:00,400 of Angel shark, including the Australian Angel shark, Pacific 119 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,120 Angel sharks, sand devil or the Atlantic like Angel shark, 120 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:05,880 Japanese Angel shark and the monkfish. 121 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,320 Now they vary in size and build, but they are all beautiful in 122 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:10,960 their own ways, which is really neat. 123 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:15,040 Beginning in 1977, these sharks were haunted initially to be 124 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,480 crab bait, which is kind of lame. 125 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,440 I mean, I am from Baltimore and we do love our Blue Crabs very 126 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:25,920 much, but I mean, you, you can use a catfish, you can use a 127 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,360 crawfish, you can use so many different things. 128 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,560 You can use a chicken neck. There's so many things you can 129 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:36,000 use besides a shark. But anyway, so they weren't 130 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,840 really haunted that often at first, but then there was a 131 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:42,320 commercial fisherman and there was one person in particular who 132 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:45,880 was named, but I'm not going to name them as I, they don't even 133 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:47,960 have like a Wikipedia page or anything like that. 134 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,200 So I didn't want to randomly throw some person under the bus 135 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,440 if I can't actually prove it, but whatever. 136 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,720 But they were the ones that helped to create a vast market 137 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:59,840 for these sharks, which then estimated killed about 90,000 of 138 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:02,200 the species, which is absolutely horrible. 139 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:06,200 In 1991, gill Nets were officially banned in California 140 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,160 to help protect many animals that fell victim to bycatch. 141 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,880 And in 2008 the UK granted Angel shark full protections. 142 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,120 So the neat thing is that these sharks are getting protected. 143 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,800 The bad news is that in some countries it is still really 144 00:07:19,800 --> 00:07:23,680 hard to find them and really hard to protect them, but at 145 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,920 least there are some services that are looking to do that and 146 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,360 hopefully it will continue into the future. 147 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,120 That is what I have for the Angel Shark. 148 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,520 If there's anything that you guys would like to add or 149 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,480 anything that you want me to go talk about further, please send 150 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:41,520 it over to the Instagram or Twitter, or you can even ask it 151 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:44,520 and chat on the Twitch. And I will be more than happy to 152 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:46,680 add it to the correction corner in the next episode. 153 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:50,680 But going into shark safety this week, we have how to help an 154 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:54,040 injured or beached shark, which this information I got from 155 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:58,280 masslive.com. MASS as in Massachusetts. 156 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,920 I will say that when I tried Googling how to help an injured 157 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:07,240 shark, because many of you had asked about that before, Google 158 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,680 was like, yeah, of course you're trying to figure out how to help 159 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:11,280 someone that's been injured by a shark. 160 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,880 Yes, here's information on that. And I was like, no, no, no help 161 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,280 injured shark is is. Then when I tried breaking it 162 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:19,440 down, I tried searching so many different things and it kept 163 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:21,040 being like, here's how you make a tourniquet. 164 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,480 You need to control the bleed. And I'm like, no, this is not 165 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,000 for the shark. This is, this is for the human. 166 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,640 I'm like, how do we help a shark that's hurt? 167 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:29,560 And they're like, don't. I'm like, OK, great. 168 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,520 But I could not find too much. This is what I found on that. 169 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:34,000 I'm going to keep trying to look into that. 170 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,559 So we'll probably get more updates on that later. 171 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:40,400 But I do feel like I start many of my safety segments with, I've 172 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,400 talked about this before, but I definitely know I've mentioned 173 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,440 some tips about this and we're going to look a bit deeper into 174 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:48,600 it. I know previously I've mentioned 175 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:52,000 like where to push the shark from and try to do this versus 176 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,200 that. But this one, we're going to go 177 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,200 a little bit on a different route. 178 00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:59,560 So the Masslive article got input from John Chisholm, who is 179 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,400 a shark expert that gave a talk at Shark Con, which is very 180 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,440 neat. He talked about tagging white 181 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:06,960 sharks up in New England as he works with the New England 182 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,920 Aquarium, which is really cool, and it was a really neat speech 183 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:11,520 to hear. So definitely recommend doing 184 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,440 that, either meeting him, listening to him, or something 185 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,560 like that. But when finding any beached 186 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:19,440 animal, your safety has to come first. 187 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,120 Many of these animals will weigh hundreds if not thousands of 188 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,560 pounds, which can be very hard to move. 189 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:30,040 I do cardio, but if I came up to a 600 LB great white, I'm not 190 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:31,480 going to be able to move that on my own. 191 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,280 As much as I like to think I'd be able to. 192 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,360 It's just not going to happen. If you have people around you 193 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:38,880 that are able to help, that could be give you a better 194 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:41,760 chance. But also if you can't move it, 195 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,520 please do not hurt yourself, throw out your back, anything 196 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,400 like that trying to move this animal. 197 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:51,040 It also does depend on where the animal is in relation to the 198 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:52,880 water. So if they're in a couple inches 199 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:56,320 of water, that typically will help to get them moving a little 200 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,720 bit more. But if they got caught in a tide 201 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:00,920 change, they accidentally beached themselves when it was 202 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:04,480 high tide and now it's low tide and they're good couple feet 203 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,520 from the water on sand. You're not going to move them a 204 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:11,680 whole lot because that Sam loves to give way and you're going to 205 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:14,040 be running. It's like when tires are in mud 206 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:16,040 or snow, they're just going to be spinning and you're not going 207 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,160 to be moving. So you want to be careful there. 208 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,720 Don't hurt yourself with that, especially if these animals are 209 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,320 very, very heavy. And of course, one thing to 210 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:27,080 check as well is if the animals even still alive. 211 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:29,840 Just because you find the beached animal doesn't mean it's 212 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,000 guaranteed that it's going to still be alive. 213 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,800 So one thing to do is kind of toss water on it, see if it 214 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:39,120 moves or if there's like any sort of motion with it. 215 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:42,800 Don't go kick it, poke it, stick your hand in its mouth, nothing 216 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,800 like that. That's just not the right move. 217 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,320 Just try to throw some water at it because usually that will 218 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,880 have some sort of reaction like, oh, yay, relief. 219 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:55,320 You also want to try to contact a lifeguard, local authorities, 220 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,560 local aquariums or animal rescues to come help the animal. 221 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:03,000 Now one thing to mention is we did just have hurricane Helene 222 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:08,280 come through and as a Marylander that was down here for this is 223 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:10,440 probably the closest storm that's come to me so far. 224 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:12,280 I don't know how y'all keep doing this. 225 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:15,720 This was wild for me. I was I was in a tropical storm 226 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:20,320 warning and still was like holy crap that's crazy and I looked 227 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,640 across the street and people were in my apartment complex 228 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:25,960 gym. So I, we lived, we're good. 229 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,840 But one thing that I did like was before the storm hit, there 230 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,640 was a lot of pages that were putting out different phone 231 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:35,320 numbers to contact if you find animals in places that they 232 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:36,920 shouldn't be. Because of course with all the 233 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,200 flooding, you're going to have animals that are over in the 234 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,160 Gulf that then discover they've got new territory unlocked. 235 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,080 Manatees especially are ones that love to try to explore new 236 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:48,840 areas, which is really cool, except for when that water goes 237 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:53,280 back down and now you've got that big rock just sitting in 238 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:55,720 the middle of the road. So instead of trying to roll a 239 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,040 manatee down the road or anything like that because that 240 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,680 might hurt it, there's different numbers you can contact. 1 241 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:04,360 specifically for the Tampa Bay area is going to be the 242 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:07,840 Clearwater Marine Aquarium. They are a rescue only aquarium 243 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,400 so all of their animals and they're either being 244 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:15,080 rehabilitated to be released again or they're unable to be 245 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:17,680 released and that is why they will stay there forever. 246 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,680 They have a nurse shark that was someone's pet at one point. 247 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:24,720 So they have a lot of cool things but they are they've 248 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,400 traveled really far before. I think I've seen them travel 4 249 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,120 hours up the coast at some point to help different animals. 250 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:32,520 So they're a really good resource to contact. 251 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:34,280 Definitely go with your local aquariums. 252 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:38,120 I know the Baltimore Aquarium has been one that has traveled 253 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:42,120 to Ocean City to help with different animal rescues, seal 254 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:45,240 releases, things like that. They've also helped many cold 255 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:47,680 stunned turtles. So there's lots of ways that 256 00:12:47,680 --> 00:12:50,360 aquarium that may not even be too close to you or that you 257 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,320 think is that close to you will still be able to help even if 258 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,800 you call an aquarium that you know, and I'm not suggesting 259 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,680 that if you're in Tampa, you call the Baltimore aquarium 260 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,640 you've you've got 2 right near you Clearwater or Tampa, the 261 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,040 Florida Aquarium, sorry. So you can call them and even if 262 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:10,480 you don't know and say like you call the the aquarium over in 263 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:14,640 Fort Lauderdale, they'll still be able to get in contact with 264 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,080 the aquariums over here or they'll be able to give you 265 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:20,360 information to contact them yourself. 266 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,840 So that way you'll still be able to help them, which is really 267 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,080 cool because I do love that aquariums will work that way 268 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,400 instead of just being like, that's not our territory, get 269 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,400 away from me. So they'll do something like 270 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,000 that. But you shouldn't put yourself 271 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,480 near animal's head or mouth. You do also want to watch for 272 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,240 their tail as well, especially when it comes to sharks. 273 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:40,800 They have a lot of powerful muscles in their tail, which is 274 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,320 why great whites can breach so far out of the water. 275 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,920 Same issue with whale sharks is that they have all those 276 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:50,400 muscles, so getting smacked with it could hurt quite a bit. 277 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:52,640 So you want to be careful if you're trying to rescue them 278 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:56,080 because if the shark starts thrashing, that tail can hit you 279 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:58,440 and that can do some damage. The animals not going to 280 00:13:58,440 --> 00:13:59,800 understand that you're there to help. 281 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:01,880 They just know that there's somewhere they haven't been 282 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:04,360 before and now some weird alien is touching them, which would 283 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,400 freak you out too if you're in that situation. 284 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,560 The animal has unfortunately passed at this point. 285 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,360 You still want to alert local authorities so that way they can 286 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,320 dispose the animal properly. Don't try to get rid of it 287 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,920 yourself or start chopping it up or anything like that. 288 00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:22,360 You guys may have heard the story of Exploded Whale Beach. 289 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,120 I forget what state that was in. I believe it was in the New 290 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,160 England area. But there was a beach whale 291 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:29,840 many, many years ago and they did contact authorities. 292 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:31,960 But at the time, authorities sought to be really cool and 293 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,680 really funny to see if they can just dynamite explode this whale 294 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:39,280 back into the water. But the person that was in 295 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:41,520 charge of setting all that up didn't do it right. 296 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,280 So they announced that they were going to do it and got a crowd 297 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:49,920 of people to come watch and then proceeded to explode a whale and 298 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,840 the trunk slated on people. So it's it's if you have 299 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:58,280 dynamite, don't blow up a whale or a shark or a manatee or or 300 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:02,120 any I don't even know why you need TNT or anything like that. 301 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:05,400 Just don't do it. That's all I got to say about 302 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:08,320 that. But with this another thing to 303 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,120 consider is that if you try moving the animal on your own 304 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,520 you could injure the animal. So anyone who is crowd served 305 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:16,680 has found a random bruise on themselves that they didn't 306 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:18,920 realize they had as people push them across the crowd. 307 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,160 You don't want to unintentionally push against the 308 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:25,040 manatees liver and hurt them. That being said I also have no 309 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,160 idea what the anatomy of a manatee is. 310 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:31,440 Besides they look like a potato on the outside so I have no idea 311 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,080 of pushing their liver is even possible. 312 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:35,800 But I don't think that also rolling them down the hot 313 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,720 asphalt would be comfortable for them either. 314 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,000 So This is why you want to alert authorities. 315 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,800 In many areas, it's also illegal to touch wildlife for any 316 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:46,760 reason, which could get you into trouble. 317 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:49,160 So knowing if helping this animal is acceptable in your 318 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:52,840 area would be beneficial. Now some places will kind of 319 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,400 push that rule under the rug if you're trying to get an animal 320 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,520 back in the water. But I also know that others, 321 00:15:57,520 --> 00:15:59,880 when people have posted videos of them, get an animal back in 322 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:03,720 the water, then still find the people for touching the animal 323 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:07,000 at all, which is crazy to me. But of course, they also don't 324 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,760 want people going out of their way trying to hurt themselves to 325 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,080 help an animal. So this is kind of priority 326 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,560 number one. So to recap, you want to keep 327 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:17,800 the animal in some kind of water if possible and try to get water 328 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:19,920 moving over their gills, unless they're an animal that breathes 329 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,760 air, such as a manatee. Then you just want to try to get 330 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:26,240 water on them so that way they don't dry out kind of neat. 331 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:29,880 But that there's what I have for the safety portion. 332 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,480 I will try to look more into it in case you find an injured 333 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:36,200 shark out in the water. See if I can find anything for 334 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,400 coming up future episodes. But we're going to go on to the 335 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,160 news. So we have two different stories 336 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:44,120 once again. The first one comes from New 337 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:46,360 Zealand and the title is New Zealand scientist. 338 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:49,520 Discover new spookfish living deep in the Pacific. 339 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,960 This is from NBC News. Now, this is conveniently in 340 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,720 time for Halloween. A little bit early, but we got a 341 00:16:55,720 --> 00:17:00,760 new spooky shark. So the Australasian narrow nose 342 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:04,119 spookfish was discovered to inhabit waters of Australia and 343 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:10,520 New Zealand about 2600 meters deep to 8530 meters deep. 344 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,520 Now this is a species of ghost shark. 345 00:17:13,599 --> 00:17:16,400 So it's a new species of ghost shark, which is so exciting. 346 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:18,839 I do love ghost sharks. They're also known as shamaras 347 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:20,560 and I have done an episode on them. 348 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,520 You can check that out as well. But not much is known about them 349 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:27,560 because they live so far into the depths and it's very hard to 350 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,720 get down to them. They do not know a lot about the 351 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:34,560 species lifespan, population size, or how they interact with 352 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,000 the ecosystem. But researchers are hoping to be 353 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,160 able to learn more about the species and the world around it 354 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:43,200 as we don't know a whole lot about the deep ocean as a whole, 355 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,840 which is why it took us so long to get here and find this new 356 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,360 shark. But researching this newly 357 00:17:49,360 --> 00:17:52,000 discovered species will also help to learn more about the 358 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:55,480 ecosystem around it and also help to find ways to protect it 359 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,000 if it is endangered. Although currently they do not 360 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:02,440 have any sort of classification on it because they found a 361 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:06,160 couple species of it or a couple specimens, I should say. 362 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:09,800 And in this case, they're looking into more of it, hoping 363 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:11,440 to find out about the world around it. 364 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:15,840 And I mean, we recently found out about new types of octopi. 365 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:18,960 I was said octopuses. That's wrong, I think octopi 366 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:23,520 anyway, new species of octopi and also squid, as well as what 367 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:27,640 was the other one, jellyfish. There was a really neat video of 368 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,440 a jellyfish that researchers recently discovered in the deep 369 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:31,960 ocean. So they are getting down there 370 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:36,440 more frequently. Also with the new uncovering of 371 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:40,840 the Titan submersible, which that's a whole nother rant for a 372 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:45,640 different podcast, but anyway. But researching that too has 373 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,840 made it so that way they can look at some of the wildlife 374 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:51,240 around it. Recently, there's a video of 375 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:54,840 them pulling the wreckage out a bit and fish were swimming 376 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:56,200 around it like, oh, what you got here? 377 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,360 So they were able to kind of study the fish behavior as well, 378 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:01,560 which is neat. Now, I'm not saying go sink 379 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:08,320 another submarine of some kind to get a cool shot of fish. 380 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:11,280 But I mean, you know, fish like shipwrecks. 381 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:16,240 But the other story that we have is another new shark. 382 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:20,480 New shark species found but marks a tragic discovery. 383 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:24,440 And this is by Newsweek. SO2 new species in one week is 384 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,720 incredible and I for one feel completely spoiled. 385 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,720 We also have a new species of hammerhead shark, which is known 386 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,840 as the shovelbill shark as previously believed to be a 387 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:38,040 species of bonnet head. But DNA samples in 2017 show 388 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,160 genetic differences between the sharks that would classify them 389 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,280 as a different species. This process took time, as we 390 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,600 are only now just announcing that it is a new species, and 391 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,120 the researchers needed to work with local fishers to collect 392 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:52,160 tissue samples to have conclusive evidence. 393 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,360 Science is very fun but also demands a lot of respect. 394 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,400 The shove bill can be found from Belize to Brazil. 395 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,160 So right now, that's kind of the area that it's in currently 396 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,840 believed to be endangered despite just being found. 397 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:05,840 That's unfortunately the tragedy of it. 398 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,840 Now, because of uncapped fishing practices in Brazil, these 399 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,760 sharks can be caught and used for almost any purpose, such as 400 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:15,280 crab bait. Thankfully, the researchers are 401 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:17,800 currently working with Belize to create protections for this 402 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:21,080 shark and similar fish so that more species do not become 403 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,600 extinct. Which did bring up and really 404 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,720 interesting point in my brain. If we only just discovered this 405 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:28,320 shark and it's already endangered. 406 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:31,080 There has to have been many species that scientists hadn't 407 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:33,560 discovered that went extinct before they were found or could 408 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:34,760 be studied. Now. 409 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,360 Unfortunately, we won't really know unless we find fossil 410 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:40,280 evidence or we get a neat little stat sheet at the end of our 411 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:43,000 life of all the things that occurred while we were on Earth. 412 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,400 Which would be neat in my opinion, as I would love to know 413 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,640 how many breaths I took or how many wild sharks I was near, or 414 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,360 how many sharks fact I told in the lifetime. 415 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:54,640 Maybe for at least a couple billion, but you know, here we 416 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,600 are. This helps the numbers, but that 417 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,120 is what I have for this week's episode. 418 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:02,080 I want to thank you all for listening. 419 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:04,840 Thank you all for sharing. 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