#unless in a controlled area in which I'd be ecstatic

[hyperfixation-tangentopia]

Random thing I keep hearing (and honestly I agree): sharks are better than dolphins

May I ask what are your thoughts about it, if u don't mind?

ALRIGHT, full disclosure most of my knowledge about sharks and dolphins alike have been lost to memory issues, BUT. I can explain my personal thing.

Dolphins. Are. Menaces.

Sharks are chill :3

Uhhhh, is basically what it comes down to. And don't get me wrong, I love dolphins! I love a lot of menaces to the animal world (look at honey badgers). But sharks get such a bad rap in comparison. Which, I know is me repeating old news at this point.

I would go on a rant about this but uh, aforementioned memory issues. So instead, I'm going to rant about why I love sharks.

SHARKS! MY CARTILAGE CONTAINER OF A FISH!

First off, they don't have bones. Which isn't terribly relevant but I think it's neat :3

Sharks have always held a special (albeit terrifying) place in my heart because my Papa had a picture of a Hammerhead swimming with fish as his lock screen. And me, being 4, saw this as reason enough to develop a liking toward them. Plus, I thought the Hammerheads looked SUPER COOL (and I was right for the record).

I was a pretty nature-obsessed kid and for a while I was homeschooled (like, less than a year), and so I'd watch Nature Documentaries for science (pain to my 6-year-old ADHD brain, but whatever). I discovered Whale Sharks were a thing (amazing, wonderful, joys to the Earth) and how they ate krill and plankton and watched the swimmers swim with them and touch them and 6-year-old me fell in love.

Fast forward a few years and I see one of those National Geographic books about sharks. I go "oo, okay", read it, and trigger a new hyperfixation for myself where I dodged every picture of sharks (excluding Whale Sharks) because their eyes still creeped me out.

I unfortunately don't have most of the knowledge I did then, but I remember specifically thinking Mako, Nursery, and Tiger Sharks were the coolest things ever. (Also discovering baby sharks ate each other in the womb, which was fucking awesome to 2ndish Grade me). And thinking Tiger Sharks eating anything was really cool.

By the way, Whale Sharks are amazing and probably was one of my favorite sharks at one point. In - in case I haven't clarified that.

I've as of today rediscovered Thrasher Sharks are a thing, which stun a few fish then go in and gobble them up instead of the feeding frenzy approach. It's also really interesting to me how some sharks can't stop moving.

I remember loving Nursery Sharks, but I don't remember why. I think they were ones I wanted to go see in real life, but again, memory go brr. Anyway, as of right now my favorites are Makos because they go speed.