If you watched the news(any news) in the last two days, you are aware of the death of a 66 yr old retired veternarian do to a shark (Great White) attack. He was swimming, as he and a dozen others did three times a week, while in training for a triatholon in the murky waters of Southern California. The attack was typical of a Great White going after it's "normal" food source, the seal. It attacks from dark depths below and is usually done with enough speed and violence to propel both the shark, all est 1500 lbs of him, and the victim into the air. In the very rare case of a mistaken identity, which unfortunately for the victim still doesn't bode well, the shark usually abandons the mistaken prey and swims off, as it did in this case. But, the single strike from a evolutionary biologically perfected killer, is all that is really needed. Now, I have mentioned in several posts that humans (mostly Chinese for shark fin soup or used in some ritual) kill over 100 MILLION sharks per year! The even more horrible fact is that most are rounded up in a massive kills(hunts) that begins with crop dusters chumming an area of the ocean up two 2 miles! Sharks can detect one drop of blood in over a billion gallons of water, so you can imagine the area sharks are drawn from. They are pulled aboard giant industrial fishing ships, their fins are cut off, and while still alive, thrown back in the sea to drown (sharks must move to breath) or become a last supper for other unsuspecting sharks. World wide on the average there are approx 7-10 attacks per year resulting in an average of 5 deaths! With billions of humans entering their backyard, I would say we are pretty lucky. I don't so feel bad when they get one of us. What type of revenge would humans extract on sharks if 100 million people were killed. The fate of this one lone Great White, if able to be caught, will be a sure death. They will also probably kill a few innocent ones in the process. Before finding the "guilty" one. Guilty of what?Because in it's normal course of trying eat, in a world that has all ready made it more difficult by reducing it's natural food, it made a mistake and took a bite out of one of us, it's only known threat! The irony lies in the fact that this man devouted his life to saving and healing animals. Just as with the accidental death of Steve Erwin from a stab in the heart from a sting ray. The animals are not "out to get us" we are out to get them. We have caused the extinction of more species in the last 100 yrs than of all extictions since the creation of life on Earth! Everyday we lose a hundred more totaling over 35,000 a year, due to our lack of understanding, greed and negligence. THATS 35 THOUSAND LIFE FORMS A YEAR THAT WILL NEVER EXSIST AGAIN!. Everyday we slaughter millions and millions of live stock to feed our over popoulated planet. We put to sleep millions of unwanted or stray pets. They breed, because we don't prevent them from breeding, as they are our responsibility. We hunt and kill another million or so every year so we can hang their severed heads on our wall or use their limbs for "fancy" table legs or coat racks. We "exterminate" millions of "pests" each day because we classify them as unhealthy or harmfull to the our world. I for one would classify humans as unhealthy or harmfull to the our world(and theirs) good thing the "other" animals on this planet don't see it my way, they still out number us a billion to one. Isn't it nice to know they don't hold a grudge and are willing to forgive and forget..... Those are examples of intentional killings. Then you have those animals that just get in our way. Like bugs on your windsheild must number in the billions and those animals we run over or hit with our cars, boats and planes. Let that great creature that has graced this planet for millions of years, before we came along, go on it's way. It is smart enough not to make the same mistake twice. Thankfully, Sharks don't like the way we taste. I think we probably taste toxic. No wonder, they say you are what you eat! from that single interaction the shark has learned....I wish we could learn too, not to make the same mistakes over and over....