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I respect sharks so I guess that does mean I fear them. I just don't have that overwhelming fear of them where I'm always watching my back.
I think sharks are the coolest animals ever. When all the young kids liked dinosaurs, I liked sharks. I still can't understand why so many kids like dinosaurs. They didn't even survive!
The thing I fear about ticks is lyme disease. Those things can attack you without you knowing it and months later, you can wind up with permanent joint pain and neurological damage. My brother had lyme disease and it basically ruined his life. Couldn't play football anymore, his true passion. He got better thank God but still, that must have been hell for him.
The thing about snakes is once you're tagged, there is nothing really you can do to get rid of the venom. You can suck the wound but that only gets rid of any excess venom and you can put constrictive band on but that cuts the blood off. Once you are tagged, your only real hope is getting anti-venom. I guess I fear spiders and scorpions and the platypus but I don't run into the last two often. And spiders don't bite unless provoked. Snakes though. Man, they bother me.
Jaws is a GREAT movie. It's one of my favorites. I don't care for the fear it instilled in people afterwards. People were all out to kill any sharks. Saw videos of divers going around Austrailia with bang sticks killing nurse sharks. Nurse sharks can be dangerous if tempted but usually they just stick to themselves. Sharks are a marvel of nature. Even Peter Benchley said if he knew the outcome would be the destruction of sharks, he would have had doubts about making it.
They are beautiful animals. Even the white sharks which I think are the ugliest of the sharks with their torn up gums, fat belly, and scars from seal fins have a certain beauty to them. My favorites to look at are either the blue sharks for their color, or the makos for their speed but all of them have beauty to them.
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