They’re normally docile, unless you get caught up in them while they’re feeding
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dwemthy@lemdro.id 2 months agoNurse sharks are friendly? The things I remember about them from my childhood book on sharks are: they sleep in big piles on the ocean floor, their eggs are like weird sacks, and they latch on after biting and will not let go
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ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 2 months ago
They’re little sea puppies that are perfectly happy to cruise around while you swim with them. At least that’s the grey nurse sharks we get in aus
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was able to pet a bunch of them and huge stingrays off of Belize while snorkeling. The boat I was on tossed a bunch of chum and then five minutes later we jumped in. They were all so chill with full bellies.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Grey Nurse Shark in Australia is a Sand-Tiger in the rest of the world.