Sharks Seen Swimming Down Australian Streets

[YosemiteSam]

Excellent! :laugh2:

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TWO bull sharks have been spotted swimming past the McDonald’s restaurant in Goodna.

Goodna butcher Steve Bateman saw one of the sharks swimming through the flooded waters of Williams Street near his bucher’s shop in the St Ives shopping centre yesterday.

There were several reports of another shark spotted in Queen Street, the main street through Goodna.

Bull sharks have been spotted in the Goodna sections of the Bremer River previously, with fishermen regularly catching them from the Goodna boat ramp.

Ipswich councillor for the Goodna region Paul Tully said while it may sound almost too bizarre to be real, the shark sighting was valid.

“It would have swam several kilometres in from the river, across Evan Marginson Park and the motorway,” Cr Tully said.

“It’s definitely a first for Goodna, to have a shark in the main street.

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[BrAinPaiNt]

I have heard stories of bull sharks being spotted in rivers in different countries...and pretty far up river.

But man alive that would be kind of scary seeing one swim by mcdonalds.

I guess if the streets/roads are flooded you would not have to worry about sitting at a mcdonalds and seeing it, but still pretty crazy.

 

[Faerluna]

They were hoping the Drive Thru was open.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

They were hoping the Drive Thru was open.

Filet-o-fish?

 

[Doomsday101]

Not this again. I remember in the 70's having to deal with Landsharks. Candy Gram

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Not this again. I remember in the 70's having to deal with Landsharks. Candy Gram

Those skits were so dumb, yet so funny.

 

[Doomsday101]

Those skits were so dumb, yet so funny.

The original show was classic and cutting edge for its time

 

[Yeagermeister]

What a shark can't get some Mc Nuggets up in this *****? :laugh2:

http://img.***BLOCKED***/albums/v316/Yeagermeister/jaws.jpg

 

[big dog cowboy]

Not this again. I remember in the 70's having to deal with Landsharks. Candy Gram

:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

 

[TheDallasDon]

Fun fact of the day : Bull Sharks have the more testosterone then any other animal in the world and have been found over 2000 miles up a fresh water river

 

[Doomsday101]

Fun fact of the day : Bull Sharks have the more testosterone then any other animal in the world and have been found over 2000 miles up a fresh water river

And more people are attacked by Bull Sharks than any other species of shark

 

[TheDallasDon]

And more people are attacked by Bull Sharks than any other species of shark

That's because of the testosterone a very territorial animal

 

[Doomsday101]

That's because of the testosterone a very territorial animal

That an unlike other sharks they can be found in fresh water where some attacks have taken place.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

This is actually my turf, when it comes to behavioral biology and specifically, behavioral biology of elasmobranchs.

Bull sharks are some bad fish. I've been underwater, swimming, with around a dozen species of sharks including Tigers. There are a few I wouldn't think about getting in the water with, and Bull is in the top 5 of that list.

They've got an amazing ability to biologically and chemically change the pathways that allow for osmoregulation. It seems to be linked to their ampullae di lorenzini. This is older research, and may have been proven wrong, but as those ampullae start to uptake water, the shark's body chemistry changes. It takes a few hours for it to get mostly done, then it tapers off for a long time.

In essence, the bull shark can swim up into freshwater, stay there for a while, and then head back down to saltwater and the ability to osmoregulate effectively stays preserved.

Lake Nicaragua, which is cut off from saltwater, used to be full of bull sharks. There are several common names of sharks that are all the bull shark proper. I want to say the Ganges River Shark is the most notorious, and it's a bull shark.

They are also very aggressive in feeding, it has nothing to do with territoriality. Pelagic species exhibit almost no territoriality at all, and my personal research in neonatal behavior of the Blacktip shark showed the same. About the only "territoriality" you'll see in sharks is temporal distribution based on pupping periods, i.e. pregnant females in shallow back bays when giving birth, and then they swim out.

Dr. Sonny Gruber's work in Bimini showed no territoriality. They have tagged tens of thousands of sharks, tracked them, and then lost them. Subsequent tagging efforts whereas you check for previously implanted PIT tags showed less than one half of one percent recapture rates.

No such thing as territoriality in sharks. Well, I take that back. White tipped reef and black nosed Caribbean do, to a small extent, show some site attachment to isolated reef formations. Then again, those sharks hunt in small groups as well.

 

[kmp77]

This thread is useless without video!!!!

 

[danielofthesaints]

Another interesting fact: The McDonalds Filet-o-Fish or the McNuggets that the sharks came for are actually made of Alaskan Pollock. Caught in the Bering Strait (colder waters contain higher amounts of dissolved oxygen since the lower the temperature the higher solubility level of the oxygenated gas, which can support a larger amount of fish), packaged in ice blocks in china, distributed to the Mcdonalds of the world. At high temperatures the pollocks bland taste and appearance is made into a paste and cooled in to the Filet-o-Fish and the McNuggets.

 

[theogt]

I'd be more worried about flooding to the point that a shark could swim that far inland rather than the shark.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

I'd be more worried about flooding to the point that a shark could swim that far inland rather than the shark.

Looks like Goodna is on the west/southwest side of Brisbane. Mountains to the west probably provided a lot of runoff. You know you're getting a lot of water when it can't run off into the ocean fast enough.

 

[big dog cowboy]

I'd be more worried about flooding to the point that a shark could swim that far inland rather than the shark.

If you are high ground then yes.

 

[Hostile]

This thread is useless without video!!!!

http://www.dump.com/2011/01/18/canoeing-through-brisbane-mcdonalds-after-2011-flood-disaster-video/