![]() ![]() As to whether an eel can kill anyone, the answer is yes. Amongst all the crazy facts, they are air breathers. The electric eel isn’t actually an eel at all, it is actually a species of knifefish. Some hapless henchman get electrocuted to death by an electric eel sitting around in a tank. ![]() This information is from the fabulous Shark Foundation website. All animals possess electric fields in the form of muscle contractions and heart beats, although this is only useful over very short distances (this totes refers back to my day job □ ) In addition they have an exquisitely sensitive sense of touch and pressure sensors. More interesting though is there ability to sense electric fields. What we do know about sharks is that they have colour vision, have a really good sense of smell, taste and exceptionally good hearing. Although blood doesn’t necessarily cause the legendary feeding frenzies that the films have us believe. If there is food about, the shark is probably going to try and eat whatever is put in front of it like Leiter or Killifer. Humans aren’t nutritious enough to be worth the effort.” However, there doesn’t seem to be much scientific consensus on what actually causes a shark to attack. They don’t actively seek out human (unlike the evil revenge-mad shark from the Jaws movies). “Sharks don’t eat humans,” says shark expert Peter Kimley of the University of California, “They spit out humans. Great Whites mostly bite people out of nosiness. Filmmakers Ron and Valerie Taylor, diver/photographer George Askew, and Piet van der Walt found that the sharks tend to be scared of the divers, even though they had been exposed to blood and exposed flesh. But some divers have successfully filmed Great Whites and not suffered attacks. Film depictions of Great whites are somewhat unfair as apex predators they are used to being able to eat pretty much anything. The Great White is a notorious maneater, thanks – in part – to post-Jaws paranoia. The shark that people keep getting fed to is identified by Bond as being a Great White Shark. As an example, worldwide between 20 there were 807 recorded shark attacks worldwide, of which 66 were fatal. There are some lovely squishy statistics over here. Overall, unprovoked shark attacks and fatalities from shark attacks are pretty low. Revenge by feeding someone else to a shark. When Felix Leiter is partially fed to a shark, Bond goes out to seek revenge. Here at Schiensh, we try to find some Schiensh in Licence to Kill in a post subtitled Revenge is a dish best served dissolved in petrol and covered in shark. In the latest installment of The Incredible Suit’s monthly exercise in self-harm, Bond – like so many spies before him – Goes Rogue. ![]()
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