this could be the old bull’s last chance at domination and to leave a dynasty but a new arrival is bigger challenge accepted the pair are evenly matched but the old bull has experience the rival concedes his blood will run in the next generation and build on the rising number of bison native to this land [Music]
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yep that’s me and you’re probably thinking what’s going through my head at that exact moment i know what it looks like the man stuck in the cage and a hungry great white shark is ready to eviscerate him this was not an act of aggression this was a wild animal testing an alien object in its environment with the only tool it has its mouth trust me they can ramp up their ferocity when they want to luckily for me humans are not on the menu our perception of these animals really does shape the way we treat them and unfortunately humans have been killing their species for decades and more often than not it’s to the detriment of ...
[Music] we all know moms are amazing but whale sharks take it to the next level did you know they can carry around 300 babies at once it makes me tired just thinking about it scientists studied a pregnant whale shark in taiwan and found and this is the wild part the babies can be in different fetal stages inside the whale’s uterus at the same time that means there are unhatched eggs and tiny baby whale embryos that hatched alongside their egg siblings when the pumps are born they can be up to two feet long and weigh just a few pounds but can grow to be the size of a bus wow
shark attacks are not new in fact they go way back an early example from recorded history dates to the greco-persian wars around 492 bc when persians first invaded greece things were going well for military commander mardonius until his fleet was caught in a terrible storm causing almost 300 ships to sink that’s when the sharks came in greek historian herodotus describes the story in his opus the histories the sea monsters moved in to seize and devour many of the tens of thousands of sailors in the water yikes [Music]
there are a lot of shark gods but fiji has one of the coolest taekwondo is an ancient god of the fiji islands half shark half man he watched over everyone entering the sea age old stories say he could shape-shift into anything but he is often depicted in the form of a muscular fijian man with the upper torso of a shark highly respected he helped fishermen stay safe protected them from sea monsters and he even made sure they caught ample fish [Music]
i was photographing a shark down around 20 meters depth and i could just feel something watching me i looked over my shoulder and thought that was weird maybe i imagined it i send it to the surface for some much needed air it’s only when i reviewed the behind the scenes footage did i realize that a critically endangered oceanic white tip had circled back around and into my blind spot passed right by my head and i hadn’t even noticed [Music]