tbh from a human pov it's kinda true. Dolphins do fucked up stuff but are generally friendly towards humans. While sharks can easily mistake swimming people to seals and attack them.
Also it depends on the species but some sharks are definitely not "imma do a swim" but "fuck up everything in a 2 mile radius around me"
Great Whites, despite being the poster children of the shark family, are generally fairly chill as long as you don't look like a seal. Some species like nurse sharks are outright harmless and very cute.
Bull and tiger sharks are massive assholes whose sole purpose in life is to make everyone in their general vicinity as miserable as possible for no clear benefit.
In defense of the bullsharks we are literally building on top of their breeding ground. Of course the hormonal sharks that can't get their freak on are gonna be testy.
There's a place (I think in South America) where Bottlenose herd fish towards a small bay, where fishermen are waiting with nets to catch them. The fishermen then give whatever they don't use to the Bottlenoses. In an act of cooperation. I'll have to find my source on that though.
I always love it when animals and humans work together
Like that one bird in Africa (I think) that loves honey, so he sings until humans show up and then he shows the humans where the honey is because he can't get it himself. Then the humans get the honey, share some with the bird and take the rest for themselves
I would say the whole "mistake them for food" is overestimate
The average on lethal shark attacks per years is less than 5 people and all of them are from tourists who have 0 ideia how to behave around open wildlife locations
I agree it doesn't happen often but it still happens, also shark attacks are more common than that it's 5 per year that is lethal. There are about 60-70 resulting in injury and thousands ending with no injuries.
On the other hand dolphins attack people so rarely that there is no official statistics about it at all.
I think thats because there is only one confirmed human fatality caused by a dolphin in the same way there is one confirmed human fatality caused by a leopard seal yet both are treated as much more dangerous than sharks, three species of which have confirmed human fatalities in the double digits.
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u/This-Clue-5014 resident moth 12h ago
Someone bring up the dolphins and sharks in media image or is that too obscure