Can shark week focus on more than great whites and megaladon?

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I know it's entertaining, but shark week seems to focus on 2 things: great whites that jump out of the water off the coast of south africa, and megaladon - a prehistoric / extinct fish thats been gone for over 2 million years. These are 2 very cool, interesting facets of sharks, but there are over 300+ different species of sharks, each with unique characteristics that are also fascinating and hundreds of facts that will captivate audiences. Megaladon is cool and all, but it's extinct, yet fake pictures and grainy footage (just like ufo's, lock ness, and bigfoot) are really what they're calling shark week now? I just watched an episode where they built a gigantic fake sperm whale lure and chumed 10 miles of ocean to try to lure in a megaladon - I mean are they serious? Also, does anyone else think that nearshore feeding (such as huge chum slicks like this and charters that feed to please sightseers) are a bad idea - then they wonder why someone on the beach gets bitten nearby? Isn't this common bad sense? How about jabbing sharks with things like ice picks to hook a monitor into their flesh - you think that might be outlawed anytime soon? Let me know your thoughts, thanks. My motto is humans are the biggest threat to sharks, leave them alone and they'll do just fine.

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It should be illegal for anyone to attach foreing substances (such as any tracking device) on any animal - this is beyond animal cruelity and I'm not even close to a PETA-type person!

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Are you asking a question, or did you just want to talk about Shark Week and maybe vent a little bit?

Yeah, I personally think "Shark Week" has run its course. The Discovery Channel had great success with the concept, but I think we've come to the point where we've covered all the bases. They've shown us most of the available material. We still expect more, so they tried to top themselves this year with an unreliable megaladon documentary, which is kind of what we want to see, but not if it's complete B.S.

They show us megaladon and great whites because they're the biggest, the deadliest, and the most photogenic. Most other sharks don't look nearly as beautiful as great whites. Other sharks are flatter and seem to be more mucus-y, but great whites are full-bodied.

As for your assertion that tracking devices are too cruel...   some sharks carry lampreys on their body their entire lives. They could not give a damn. It doesn't obstruct the shark, it doesn't impede the shark. Scientists use these tracking devices to gain valuable information about each animal. If you think animal scientists want to do anything to harm animals... well you would just be wrong.

The biggest threat to sharks is the Asian food market.

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Can shark week focus on more than great whites and megaladon?

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