Graphic video shows man paying price after getting too close to beached shark: ‘That was completely avoidable’

If you were to put yourself in the shoes of a lemon shark that had been pulled from your habitat, would you grin or bite it to take a photo with its captor?

A lemon shark in Florida found itself in such a situation and, according to it, ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea), “bitten by a shark.”

They shared images The incident took place on TikTok.

Startled and lacking autonomy in a catch-and-release situation, the lemon shark twisted from the grasp of two men posing for the photo and bit one of them forcefully on the leg. One ABC News (@ABCNews) YouTube video The bitten man says: “You know, you don’t know what a wild animal will do, right? I mean, it happens. We’re in its territory.”

Interestingly, he was only able to make this observation after he was attacked. If he had thought that wild animals like sharks had an instinct to protect themselves, he might have avoided the injury to his leg and the hospital bill.

When faced with a compromising situation, all animals are likely to fight. Bisons may attack people in their personal space when they feel threatened. Bears will also attack when approached.

Lemon sharks are no different. At their core, animals care about one thing: survival. If anyone gets in the way, the person may be injured or killed.

Unfortunately, when animals attack, they are sometimes euthanized. The lemon shark in question has not been subdued, but the shark and its community are under fire.

According to the Save Our Seas Foundation, lemon sharks are social and yellow-brown in color. almost threatened Due to overfishing and habitat loss.

Sharks, their apex predators, maintain balance and biodiversity in their ecosystems, and to do this they need to eat. But fishing could disrupt this balance, displacing apex predators as “top dog” and leaving less food for sharks.

Sharks and their prey are overfished, creating an imbalance in the ecosystem that extends to humans. We rely on healthy ecosystems to support our eating habits, but when we get too much, we end up hurting ourselves.

As ordinary creatures who share this planet with so many other creatures, we humans should leave wildlife alone.

Commenting on the TikTok video were Team Shark.

“Sharks are not toys,” someone said. “I hope the shark is okay.”

Another commented: “As if this was completely inevitable.”

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