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Post by CoolJohnson on Feb 8, 2023 22:49:31 GMT
@ajay Hardcastle The bigger surprise is that they should have figured out that they were practically in an estuary, specifically a place where brackish water meets the ocean. Bullsharks give birth in rivermouths and estuaries. So there is a good chance a passing adult female attacked the girl. If anything, it would be a greater surprise if an adult bullshark attacked deep inland. Search up bullshark caught in freshwater, and it is mostly juveniles and neonates. Also, did dorado delete his own account? Are those videos real? No the sharks are paid actors. |
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Post by CoolJohnson on Feb 15, 2023 0:05:19 GMT
@ling Hardcastle @ajay Hey. Here is a good source that lists all the locations of bullsharks around the world. It gives the locations of bullsharks in the Australian rivers. I was also surprised that they live as far north as Okinawa Prefecture. They also not a juvenile caught in Kruger National Park. The best part is that they are not found in the West Coast of the US since the waters are too cold for these warm water species. Gausmann, Peter. "Synopsis of global fresh and brackish water occurrences of the bull shark Carcharhinus leucas Valenciennes, 1839 (Pisces: Carcharhinidae), with comments on distribution and habitat use." Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History 4, no. 1 (2021): 55-213. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2023 14:11:25 GMT
@ling Hardcastle @ajay Hey. Here is a good source that lists all the locations of bullsharks around the world. It gives the locations of bullsharks in the Australian rivers. I was also surprised that they live as far north as Okinawa Prefecture. They also not a juvenile caught in Kruger National Park. The best part is that they are not found in the West Coast of the US since the waters are too cold for these warm water species. Gausmann, Peter. "Synopsis of global fresh and brackish water occurrences of the bull shark Carcharhinus leucas Valenciennes, 1839 (Pisces: Carcharhinidae), with comments on distribution and habitat use." Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History 4, no. 1 (2021): 55-213. That's a boss of an article. The Hunter River runs through my town and flows into the ocean at Newcastle. In 2014 a bullshark was spotted in Hinton, which is 40km downriver from the ocean at Newcastle. So basically it went from Newcastle all the way inland to Raymond Terrace, then kept going almost to Maitland. That's a longgg way inland. Another one was spotted down a tributary of the Richmond River 115km from the ocean at WYRALLAH??? I never imagined some of the sleepy inland town rivers I've swum in could theoretically have bullshark in them. |
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Post by CoolJohnson on Feb 15, 2023 18:53:33 GMT
@ling Hardcastle @ajay Hey. Here is a good source that lists all the locations of bullsharks around the world. It gives the locations of bullsharks in the Australian rivers. I was also surprised that they live as far north as Okinawa Prefecture. They also not a juvenile caught in Kruger National Park. The best part is that they are not found in the West Coast of the US since the waters are too cold for these warm water species. Gausmann, Peter. "Synopsis of global fresh and brackish water occurrences of the bull shark Carcharhinus leucas Valenciennes, 1839 (Pisces: Carcharhinidae), with comments on distribution and habitat use." Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History 4, no. 1 (2021): 55-213. That's a boss of an article. The Hunter River runs through my town and flows into the ocean at Newcastle. In 2014 a bullshark was spotted in Hinton, which is 40km downriver from the ocean at Newcastle. So basically it went from Newcastle all the way inland to Raymond Terrace, then kept going almost to Maitland. That's a longgg way inland. Another one was spotted down a tributary of the Richmond River 115km from the ocean at WYRALLAH??? I never imagined some of the sleepy inland town rivers I've swum in could theoretically have bullshark in them. Do you recollect anything about the recorded size and ages of these sharks? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2023 19:06:32 GMT
That's a boss of an article. The Hunter River runs through my town and flows into the ocean at Newcastle. In 2014 a bullshark was spotted in Hinton, which is 40km downriver from the ocean at Newcastle. So basically it went from Newcastle all the way inland to Raymond Terrace, then kept going almost to Maitland. That's a longgg way inland. Another one was spotted down a tributary of the Richmond River 115km from the ocean at WYRALLAH??? I never imagined some of the sleepy inland town rivers I've swum in could theoretically have bullshark in them. Do you recollect anything about the recorded size and ages of these sharks? No description of anything for the Hunter River shark, but this is the quote from the Richmond River shark that went 115km downriver: "A 2 m TL specimen was reported as far as 115 km from the ocean at Wyrallah (White 2015)" "TL"? 2 m/6.5 feet is still bigger than me! |
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Post by CoolJohnson on Feb 15, 2023 19:33:57 GMT
Do you recollect anything about the recorded size and ages of these sharks? No description of anything for the Hunter River shark, but this is the quote from the Richmond River shark that went 115km downriver: "A 2 m TL specimen was reported as far as 115 km from the ocean at Wyrallah (White 2015)" "TL"? 2 m/6.5 feet is still bigger than me! Is this the Shark? www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/lismore/teen-reels-in-two-metre-bull-shark-well-inland-from-ocean/news-story/d2fea1efbfecd0d30b5519bbe8e4f033Anyway, here was a shark that was captured at the mouth of Tchefuncte River, right by Lake Pontchartrain , a big estuary in Louisiana (USA). fr-fr.facebook.com/186503955099929/photos/a.190737924676532/383272265423096/?type=3Although Gausmann(2021) did give detailed reports on all the recorded locations of bullsharks, he seemed to have indulged in the hype of some of the bullshark caught in freshwater. For example, most of the adult bullshark were caught in rivermouths rather than bodies of water that were very inland. The Tchefuncte/ Pontchartrain shark that he included in his report might also have an exaggerated size due to the odd perspective of that picture. I would wager that 70-90% of the bullsharks in freshwater are juveniles. The adults might be transients who occasionally enter freshwater, and the sharks that seem to be pseudo-residents are Breede River bullsharks. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2023 19:36:34 GMT
CoolJohnson I was wondering whether a bullshark would be more or less likely to attack humans the further upriver it goes. It's obviously chasing prey by going upriver, but that prey should be getting smaller and smaller. Then they see a human or even child in the water and it's like "CALORIES!!!"
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Post by CoolJohnson on Feb 15, 2023 22:42:07 GMT
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To be frank I have no idea.
It is possible that could happen since there was a case of a juvenile white shark killing people in the tidal Matawan Creek back in 1916. Search up '1916 Jersey Shore attacks'.
The bullsharks that tend to reside in rivers like the Breede River do not attack people since they are more interested in the fishermens' catches. At least this was theorized by Jeremy Wade in River Monsters.
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