Re:Coyotes Poised to Infiltrate South America
by dylan604 on Sunday January 26, 2020 @07:41PM
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> no one's ever run into a shark by accident.
What do you mean by that? I'm pretty sure that the swimmers/surfers that have been bitten by a shark were not actually looking for a shark. Swimming at the surface of the water unaware of exactly what's lurking in the water below them is the same thing to me as a hiker walking through the woods suddenly coming upon any wild animal.
Re:Coyotes Poised to Infiltrate South America
by prawn on Sunday January 26, 2020 @07:54PM
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Not sure it's a point worth making personally, but I suspect they mean that you encounter bees by leaving the house, something almost everybody does daily. Deer if you drive outside a city. But you will only encounter a shark if you specifically enter the ocean and almost only if you go deeper than a foot or so of water.
I live in Australia where almost everyone lives near the coast, and we regularly swim at beaches where sharks are sighted. Shark-spotting planes, helicopters and drones are a daily thing through summer.
Re:Coyotes Poised to Infiltrate South America
by raverbashing on Monday January 27, 2020 @03:13AM
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> only if you go deeper than a foot or so of water
So, basically what any adult does when they go on the sea?
Though it seems sharks are especially attracted to surfboards , making the surfers a notable target.
Sharks are an illustrative example. They're pretty dangerous if you encounter them. But doing that is fully optional; no one's ever run into a shark by accident. If you live near wolves, you can run into them even though you didn't want to.
Realistically, your risk from sharks is exactly zero unless you're going out of your way to inflate it. It's not honest to claim that sharks are more dangerous than coywolves -- and once you've realized that, you realize that you need to adjust risk estimates based on what you're exposed to.