They’re normally docile, unless you get caught up in them while they’re feeding
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dwemthy@lemdro.id 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
Grey Nurse Shark in Australia is a Sand-Tiger in the rest of the world.