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Kinda of a odd question to be asking but which species is typically more dangerous sharks or crocs

Reddit Animals

I'm asking this because yesterday while at the zoo a cousin kept saying sharks are more dangerous then crocodiles I assumed the opposite. Now it's a heated debated wanna here what you guys think. submitted by /u/Koolman46 [link] [comments]

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Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE

4 The Love Of Animals

They aren’t cute and cuddly, but sharks are still very important! Nat Geo Wild is airing an amazing show tonight called Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE! This two-hour special draws on leading experts to test common shark attack myths while swimming freely among them.

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The Horrors of Shark Finning

4 The Love Of Animals

The following is a guest post about the horrors of shark finning. Sharks are a regular feature on television channels like the Discovery Channel, with even entire weeks devoted to this majestic sea creature. Shark finning is the practice of removing fins from live sharks with sharp tools, and then tossing the shark back into the ocean.

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Finless Shark Found in the Phillipines

Critter News

The shark's fins had been cut and he was still alive when found, but sadly died. Ironically, this was just after a conference on saving sharks held in the Phillipines. Eleven of them signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) pledging to protect the whale sharks. Tags: wildlife crime poaching shark fins shark.

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The Ole’ Bucket List

10,000 Birds

I actually have many targets, in a way, a I want to see lots and lots, but there is one species that the reason that the trip is even happening, the animal that has been pretty much the top of my animal bucket list for well over a decade. It’s a species that has bedeviled and bewitched me over the years. Hammerhead shark.

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Swimming with dolphins

10,000 Birds

Dolphins are basically just smart sharks that breath air. Sure, you might say that sharks eat people and dolphins don’t, but most sharks don’t eat people, and we can’t rule out the possibility that dolphins are simply better at doing it without getting caught. Now don’t get me wrong, I like dolphins.

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Play the silly word game my spouse and I came up with: "The Lazy Naturalist"

Reddit Animals

"Jacob's Mamba", a name referring to a species of that clade, is derived from an eponymous Jacob, and though it fails to describe the kind of animal to which it refers, it at least succeeds in not suggesting something inaccurate. . +1 It is NOT a lion; is a fish.) - Whale shark, 1 point.

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