Speaking of sharks, Spielberg made Jaws, the most successful commercial film of 1975 and the first film in the history of world cinema to gross more than $100 million at the box office.
The terrifying image of the great white shark in the plot makes people extremely deep!
Today (July 15), a frightening message spread on the Internet: on a video platform, a million-fan female Internet celebrity, coordinates Nanchong, Sichuan, made a shark into a delicacy, shared with people and "disc action".
Some popular science netizens and research experts quickly uncovered this video and testified that the shark eaten by female Internet celebrities is a man-eating shark, also known as a great white shark.
The news quickly rushed to the hot search on the Internet, causing an uproar.
Orange Persimmon Interactive noted that on the video platform, the video works of the female influencers have been hidden or removed from the shelves.
However, in the account of another suspected female Internet celebrity, there are still some food videos, all of which are some animal big guys, such as golden baby fish, which are specifically stated to be artificially farmed.
Some netizens commented, "When the live broadcast said that she was bought through formal channels, said that someone in order to hype, now broadcast, do not fear life and nature, ignorant and ignorant vulgar Internet celebrities, cool it." ”
Breaking news netizens told Orange Persimmon Interactive:
This is a great white shark (man-eating shark)!
Orange Persimmon Interactive learned that the first person to see through the truth of the video and break the news was a netizen in Shanghai.
He reported that "the video sent by a friend today, a certain anchor on Douyin eats a man-eating shark (great white shark), suspected of illegally purchasing and eating a national second-level protected animal."
Judging from the shark's developed tail stalk lateral protrusion and crescent-shaped tail fin in the video, the individual is a mackerel shark species, which has only three distributions in Chinese waters, and the dark gray body color of the shark in the video can exclude the barramundi shark and the longfin mackerel shark, so it can be determined that the shark in the video is a man-eating shark larvae
As for the video that says that the individual comes from artificial breeding, this statement is even more untrustworthy, large predatory sharks can not achieve commercial breeding in artificial environments due to factors such as space and prey, and only small sharks such as striped bamboo sharks have been tried in China, but in the end they have been shelved because of the high cost of breeding
In any case, the Internet is not an extralegal place. ”
Orange Persimmon Interactive contacted the netizen who was engaged in aquatic research in Shanghai.
He told reporters, "Mackerel shark species, there are three distributions in mainland waters, barramundi shark, longfin mackerel shark, man-eating shark."
Close to the coastline are mainly barramundi sharks and man-eating sharks, with albacore mackerel sharks off the coast. ”
According to other netizens, after the incident, the female Internet celebrity opened a live broadcast to clarify that the shark was artificially raised.
And responded in a media interview that the shark is a sharp tooth shark and has hired a lawyer.
For the statement of female Internet celebrities, netizens did not agree, "The genus of sharp tooth sharks does exist, the Latin name is Chaenogaleus, the Taiwan translation is generally called the sharp tooth shark, and the translation name used in the mainland is Qiangnuosha strip shark."
Chaenogaleus macrostoma – the large-hole sharp-toothed shark, known on the mainland as the great-hole sand bar shark, is widely distributed in the subtropical and tropical waters of the Indian Ocean-Western Pacific Ocean, and has been recorded in the South China Sea and southeastern Taiwan.
We found a real picture of this species from Fishbase, and after looking at the morphological description of this species, we made this comparison chart that even people with no ichthyological foundation can understand. ”
He provided the drawings to the orange persimmon interaction, and the graphic detailed the difference between the great white shark and the sharp tooth shark -
In addition, this great white shark is the same species as Spielberg's film Jaws.
Netizens who broke the news said, "There is no need to demonize wild animals too much, the movie plot is just a movie plot, there are exaggerated elements."
As the largest surviving predatory fish in the world, the great white shark has long been regarded as synonymous with sharks.
Among them, the image in the movie "Jaws" is the most famous, but humans are not regular prey of great white sharks. ”
Aquarium Aquatic Experts:
The success rate of captive rearing great white sharks is zero
"The shark in the video, judging from the analysis of various biological characteristics, should be a man-eating shark (great white shark)."
The statement of the netizens who broke the news was also recognized by the aquatic experts of Zhejiang Ningbo Ocean World.
The expert told Orange Persimmon Interactive that the success rate of artificial breeding of great white sharks is almost zero!
"The great white shark cannot be raised, and the water area it needs to move is too wide, and the general artificial breeding is simply not up to the living conditions of the great white shark."
Great white sharks are too fierce to be raised in captivity, and the point is that the law does not allow individual breeding.
As industry insiders, as we know, domestic aquariums do not have artificial breeding of great white sharks, because the chances of survival are too difficult. ”
According to professional popular science information, the weight of the great white shark can grow to 2268 kilograms, which is equivalent to the weight of two cars, or the sum of 37 ordinary adults.
Its body length can reach 6.4 meters, equivalent to 45% of the length of a bus.
Swimming at a maximum speed of 56KM/h has a bite force of 1814 kg, far exceeding the 771 kg that can crush human bones.
And the great white shark is very long-lived, its age can reach 70 years old, similar to humans.
The skin of the great white shark is rougher than sandpaper, and it is rubbed to ensure that it is covered in blood.
In fact, compared with the harm caused by the great white shark to humans, the hunting of the great white shark has pushed this species to the brink of extinction, and the great white shark is currently at the vulnerable level on the Red List of Endangered Species.
Nanchong police responded to Orange Persimmon Interaction:
The incident is under investigation!
Since the 1950s, aquariums around the world have made dozens of attempts to show the public the great white sharks that were caught, none of them successful.
The first known attempt at captive sharks was in the mid-1950s at Pacific Ocean World in California, USA, and the subject of that attempt (the great white shark) survived less than a day.
The most recent attempt to keep great white sharks in captivity was in 2016.
An aquarium in Okinawa, Japan, exhibited a 3.35-meter-long great white shark that was captured, but the great white shark survived only three days in the aquarium, and since then the aquarium has also issued an official statement that they will end the great white shark exhibition program from then on.
Orange Persimmon Interactive Discovery: Xi'an Qujiang Ocean Polar Park has introduced great white sharks in the official article to promote shark amusement projects in the park.
The reporter called the park, and the staff said that the shark project was suspended, and the previous shark species were lemon sharks, whitetip sharks, blacktip sharks, and no great white sharks.
This incident also attracted the attention of Zhou Zhuocheng, chairman of the Professional Committee on Native Aquatic Organisms and Water Ecology of the China Fisheries Association.
He believes that the shark in the video is indeed a man-eating shark, also known as the great white shark, which is a national second-level protected animal. According to the law, whether dead or alive after fishing, it needs to be thrown into the sea, landing, selling, buying are illegal, and the man-eating shark is not artificially farmed.
He said, "In fact, (female Internet celebrities) originally honestly said that the staff procurement was not informed, according to the new regulations, that is, fines to criticize education."
But claiming 'sharp tooth shark', well, this needs to provide proof of legal source. If she can't get it, it means that the fishmonger who sold her was even a fisherman who illegally came ashore. ”
Orange Persimmon Interactive contacted the female influencer in the video, but as of press time, the other party did not respond.
This morning, Orange Persimmon Interactive contacted the Public Security Bureau of Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, and the police replied, "This incident is under investigation." ”
Nanchong Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau told reporters, "At present, we have noticed the information on the Internet, the Nanchong police are investigating, according to the follow-up of the police investigation, we will decide to conduct a joint investigation, and the results of the investigation will be published online." ”