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"
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/Dixout4H 12h ago
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"