Why no aquarium has a great white shark
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2016
- Many have tried to keep a white shark in captivity. Here's why that's so difficult.
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There are several aquariums around the world, including one in Georgia, that house whale sharks, the biggest fish in the sea. But not one has a great white shark on display.
Aquariums have made dozens of attempts since the 1970s to display a captive great white shark. Most of those attempts ended with dead sharks.
By the 2000s, the only group still trying was the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which spent a decade planning its white shark program. In 2004, it acquired a shark that became the first great white to survive in captivity for more than 16 days. In fact, it was on display for more than six months before it was released back into the ocean.
In the following years, the Monterey Bay Aquarium hosted five more juvenile white sharks for temporary stays before ending the program in 2011. It was an expensive effort and had come under criticism due to injuries that some of the sharks developed in the tank.
Responding to those critics, Jon Hoech, the aquarium's director of husbandry operations, said: "We believe strongly that putting people face to face with live animals like this is very significant in inspiring ocean conservation and connecting people to the ocean environment. We feel like white sharks face a significant threats out in the wild and our ability to bring awareness to that is significant in terms of encouraging people to become ocean stewards."
Check out the video above to learn why white sharks are so difficult to keep in captivity and how the Monterey Bay Aquarium designed a program that could keep them alive.
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Why can't we just leave them in the ocean?
$$$ (That's why.)
ILikeWaffles A lot _I feel like they shouldn't have to take them out of their habitat just to do that._
+try hard fan scientist shouldn't. Taking an animal out of its natural habitat to research it leads to weird behaviors that never would've happened in the wild
Odd seeing you here
Cause they kill you
"We'll need a bigger tank"
That tank is the ocean...
My thought exactly. Why aren't we doing more tagging of the larger creatures and building submarines that can take people to the environment. Imagine going from your currently life to being in a 2x6 cell 24 hours a day. You would probably die pretty quickly too.
+IamSandman It's called prison
A 2x6 cell is an overexaggeration. More like a 10x12 foot cell. Which I'd be fine with, because that's pretty close to the size of my room right now.
Amen.
IKR...like wth...why don't we see GW in aquariums..hmm..CUZ THEY DON'T BELONG IN THEM!! UGHH
None of these animals should be...wake up people!
so “large animals that have to swim long distances to survive won’t survive when held captive”….. makes a whole lot of sense
i live a few blocks away from the Monterey bay aquarium. i didn't know they stopped having great whotes
but why
we should let sea world know. i dont think they got that message.
and yes, i know sharks gill breathe and need flow, however.... i still stand by my point
Jjjijjjp
But aquariums have succeeded to display whale sharks which are bigger than great whites.
They also has issues with some of them ramming the tanks because they were so sensitive to electromagnetic signals which they use to hunt prey and geolocate.
Omg... Imagine the poor things, with all the electricity and whatnot we use now :(
@@kyrab7914 yeah. There are a lot of strong signals, most of which they don’t encounter. I would think their tendency to approach cages in open water might indicate the same issues. They’re just really sensitive
perhaps they could try putting strong magnets in the glass the would help deter the shark from bumping into the walls constantly.
Sharks are attracted to magnetic signals, but strong enough ones will make them run.
yes to them not having very good vision.
Chuck McGill
In the early 1963s The Bronx Zoo had a display labeled "The most dangerous Animal in the World" it was a just a mirror.
*applause*
So true!!
I mean, its true. We've completely dominated the planet and are THE apex predator.
😳😳 it’s true though!
False. Technically bacteria phages are the most deadly
I think aquariums are cool but I don't believe in captivity of migratory animals. I'd love to see a whale shark but I can't bring myself to pay to see such an amazing and majestic beast in what's essentially a prison.
Come tothe philipines theres a place in cebu where you can swim with them... Atleast thats what i heard of my uncle who lives there
go to the ocean then
Go to Broome in Western Australia to swim with the Whale shark.
+The Questionable your right I live in Philippines
whogavehimafork plus we all know 40% of the tank water is the tears of the whales and sharks and fish...
I can't even finish watching this. The very people who should most love and cherish these animals are proudly talking about the immense effort they went through just to torture one.
Just Exploiters.
I felt same way. why couldn't they just let sharks go as it have lived over 100 million years but tried to torture them?
The “immense effort” wasn’t to torture. They were putting in a lot of effort to make the environment as hospitable for the shark as possible.
@@ezyryder11 and that immense effort added up to little more than a torturous experience for the sharks. For what? To sell more tickets? Garbage idea, garbage outcome. Shameful.
@@lukenelson1931 they didn’t know that at the beginning. Unless you think zoos and aquariums shouldn’t exist, there will be times when people do their best to try something and it doesn’t work out.
When you make a person who is terrified of sharks go "nooo... poor babies!! 😰" you not only failed as a marine biologist, but also as a human being
being scared of sharks =/= wanting them to suffer
@@Wagangga_Ed_Lingk person terrified of sharks going "noooo... poor babies" = has seen too much
Yes
“Hey this animals keeps dying every time we try to keep it in captivity, oh well let’s try again”
Pretty much sums up our humanitarian views on other species.
It sounds like occupations that have high rates of depression/death. Just recruit more.
That's what science does. If they never done that we would never have answer. Now there's an answer for this matter so we can't keep specific fishes on tank.
Animals in zoos are prisoners don’t go to zoos
@@ExiledProphecy pets are also prisoners. dont get pets
You Wasted Millions Just to Stare at a Fish ... And it Still Died...
Mohammed Islam yay sushi
uhh no sushi don't have shark meat on them
I Am The great actually I concur. I've had shark sushi before, it was cooked with a citrus smoke, much like eel. Super tasty!
oh then i learned something new. i just thought they just have soloman fish( what ever its called) on sushi
I Am The great yeah, that'd just a very popular fish to have :3 Eel is super good too!
I got to see one of the great whites at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. You could always tell where she was because the other fish were all in the other end of the tank.
I was able to see a couple of them since I live here. The other fish would scatter if it came near. It was pretty amazing to see how the great white moves through the water. It was like no other shark I’ve seen.
Shame on you both!
@@stevefletcher4349 riiiiight go away karen
@@stevefletcher4349 huh
@@stevefletcher4349 it’s not like they captured them lol they just saw them
The guy from the Monteray Bay Aquarium mentioned “our success”. What success? How is 6 months for a animal that should be living decades a success? The ocean and nature in general is a very complex system that we just can’t affectively replicate. Especially for animals who travel so many miles a day.
What’s preventing they sharks they kept from living for decades? Aside from the last of the six they had.
@@jasonpeacock9735 sharks naturally migrate and travel extremely long distances over the course of a year. Migration is critical for a lot of animals and when they cannot do that, it may take a toll of their body. Also it’s possible that their diet was not able to be replicated/varied enough to keep them healthy. They don’t have enough space in those tanks to reach their top speeds and really hunt the way they naturally do.
@@cherylcorbett5829 so, what’s preventing the sharks Monterey Bay Aquarium released from doing any of that?
The fact they died shortly after they were released due to long-term damage. It's very hard to live for decaded when you're dead.
@@Rachel-fi4sc when you say “fact”, do you have any evidence that the first five released great whites died “shortly after they were released”?
It’s almost like sharks weren’t meant to be in aquariums.
How weird
almost
ikr!! but it kind of makes sense , they don’t ever stop swimming so being in captivity sends them into a depression. so sad really that people don’t leave them alone
no shi
Why keep a goldfish? They are much happier in the ocean.
its simple why they run into walls... they are asleep and running into a wall every 5 minutes while asleep could rlly f*ck with your head and they possibly could be dying from lack of sleep...
Color X do sharks move while sleeping?
Drine Peci great whites must constantly have water (oxygen) flow through their gills so they must constantly be swimming including while they sleep
Color X all sharks are like that, not just great whites.
tdodge29 there are hundreds of species of sharks... many of them sit on the ocean floor...... breathing
Color X well they could put strong water jets that prevents the shark getting near the wall
Great White sharks cannot be caged or tamed. The Devil's Teeth : A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks by Susan Casey is a great book, I highly recommend it.
"Died shortly after being released" Because we took it out of its natural habitat for months and took vital survival instincts away from it. Zoos and aquariums are just prisons for our entertainment, and it saddens me.
They are pure evil.
Seriously these places are creepy. It’s like kidnapping someone and asking why they’re deteriorating. I swear humans are disturbing sometimes.
Exactly! Really disturbing...
Sometimes?
Sometimes? Really?
Yup
Most humans torture animals for fun
Just like kids
Or, you know, you could just leave the sharks alone and not interfere....
Here, have a cookie.
Nima Anjam not "imprisonment". Zoos and aquariums donate millions upon millions every year to conservation which in fact saves those species' in the wild. Without zoos, we wouldn't have the California condor, the golden lion tamarin, and many other wonderful creatures.
Vladimir is right
We could do the exact same thing, but replace traditional zoos that house perfectly healthy animals for literally no reason, with animal sanctuaries and breeding programs for animals in danger or impaired in a way that would leave them to die in the wild.
Lav Queso why is your profile pic of Donald Trump
“The Monterey Bay Aquarium proved that it was possible to keep white sharks for at least 6 months”
Wow they say it like that’s somehow a huge accomplishment
to add: great whites have a lifespan of up to 70 years.
Keeping one for six months and successfully releasing it back into the wild was a success, especially considering the previous record was 16 days
i adore all sharks and they've been my favourite animal for a very long time. i feel as though some sharks just arent fit for captivity- but this sentiment isnt just for sharks alone.
it should be said though, the effort taken that first time to keep them alive is nice. its very sad about how they continued to get injuries in captivity. i really hope everyone just stops trying to display big and fast sharks, they arent able to survive... its better if everyone focused on placing protections for sharks and not spread false negative information about them.
Its almost like these huge majestic creatures isnt meant to be in cages.
Carlson smh
Carlson aren't *
Carlson it's almost like u read the top comment lol 😂
Thank you. English is not my native language.
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It's almost like the Sharks don't belong in cages...
Yolo Lexi they don't belong in cages ^_^
You're right, as well as the rest of the animals we humans are caging :(
who the hell belong in cages anyway?
Harris Lam Criminals.
Only because law makes it so. And humans made the laws up.
i’ll never be convinced that zoos care about anything other than profit
Nothing wrong with that
What isn't?
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN there is when you’re injuring and killing animals in the process under the guise of “helping” them
I think you have to be really careful lumping all zoos together. I used to work at one, and everyone I worked with considered animal well being to be the number one priority, with the number two priority being conservation and all the efforts that are being done to increase wild populations.
This video was excellently made! Well done to all involved. Thank you for your research. 🦈
I like how people say that sharks are the most dangerous animal, but I don’t think that sharks can catch us and put us in tanks so we can be observed and suffer
Sharks aren't even dangerous to us. They'll only gonna eat you under VERY specific circumstances
Sharks don’t know it’s a human when they attack one, their vision isn’t that good and most of attacks are when they see their feet and think it’s a fish
they dont even eat humans, either. they only bite when they think we're something else.
Man is the most cruel and dangerous animal on this planet.
@@Storse there’s proven to be more deaths in a year from dogs than sharks.
“These sharks keep dying whenever we put them in the tanks!”
“Ok, so stop catching sharks”
“...yeah, but-”
@longstrongdong sharks are misunderstood. They usually only eat fish but when they see humans swimming they mistake them for fish. They do not like the taste of humans
longstrongdong i bet you are the type who abuses animals, one who would hit a dog that bit you.
@@rokukou If a dog bit me I would slap the sh- out of it.
longstrongdong they think we are different things.
tableswereinventedin1935 I don’t think that’s abusing them, just yell at them is was I believe though.
Project "Aware" foundation is one of the leading shark conservation groups. This video totally made me cry and we should definitely try to support some of these organizations to save our brothers and sisters in the ocean.
I feel so bad for these sharks, even if they are scary up close or interesting to look at , they didn't deserve death. This video was excellently made! Well done to all involved. Thank you for your research.
you just copy 2 another comments....
Interesting, but very sad for the sharks. They need their freedom to move about.
***** Yes, I understand that. But sharks need to move constantly to breathe, hence the freedom of spacious waters. 😮
***** Not annoying at all, your heart's in the right place 💟 I'm pretty close to vegan 😊 How about you? 🐈
i say that they have to make a super big i mean like super big tank for the great white cause they dont like being in small places
Great White: "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Heidi I saw a great white in an Aquarium in the early 90s, this is a lie
As much as I would love to see a great white shark ,I would never threaten its life just to see it .
Go cage diving in South Africa. Little more effort and more expensive, but definitely something you'll remember the rest of your life.
Ya, maybe they just aren't meant to be in captivity so just let them do as they please in the wild.
Chris Conaway New Zealand is on my list of countries I still want to visit and I'll definitely make some dives when I eventually do, but I've had a great experience in South Africa with white sharks up close. I got recomended to go to Gansbaai, because there had been more sightings there in the past weeks, but I've heard people who were positive about Seal Island...
+AdenineMonkey
Appreciate that bit of info. :)
Google pictures ;)
This was heartbreaking. So much effort, skill and energy deployed for the only sake of torturing and killing innocent animals.
While I don't personally mind artificial animal habitats, seeing all the comments wildly opposed to the practice actually gives me hope for humanity.
Never stop empathising with our fellow animals.
Their echolocation needs to be in a limitless field.
I’d imagine the vibration they perceived was an ever increasing cacophony bouncing off the walls of the enclosure, akin to severe vertigo
Sharks don’t echolocate
"we are going to need a bigger tank"
ppl are so retarded
why would they trap these beautiful creatures?? for "education"??
bullshit
Like a KingTiger or an M1 Abrams huehuehue
+bdN ^^this
a very very big tank
for you
So let's not put them in tanks. Problem solved.
Genius
Brittany Reed great idea genius
Brittany Reed sharks have a right to freedom. and let's think of why sharks die in tanks: depression, boredom, lack of movement, lack of respect and a horrible diet. if sharks have a Moses I'm going to be really scared.
king ghidorah y
Moses freed the Jew's old-time imprisonment at the hand of the Egyptians.
Very informative video! Thanks a lot for sharing this.
I encourage you btw to use the metric system since you are a huge channel! Love!
Gotta love the shark rolling up to the sunfish for an exploratory nibble like “hello, may I eat you?”
“…no.”
“Ok…”
Great white: *gets captured*
I guess I'll just die instead
The samurai of the sea
Their noble bloodline is indeed honorable...
SEPUKU
cant be tamed
Evangeline Constance not funny.
How about leaving them where they belong, the ocean.
@Sir Auryn yo sharks are not pets
@Sir Auryn no they're not pets. A shark would eat you if he could, just like a lion would.
your right they should be free not catch them leave the animals alone jesus help us out plzzz
DiegoƵapaterTV sharks do not eat humans
THANK YOU
My family's numerous trips to Marine World/Africa USA are some of the fondest memories of my childhood. It developed my adoration of Orcas for one thing. Having said that, from the second minute of this clip, I kept on thinking..."umm...leave them alone already? Do you really need to create a 'customized' tank just to bring that beast over?" I can now seriously, more than every, be content with just some online clips with no prospects of ever seeing them "live", if this is what it takes.
and you saw sand tiger sharks.
“When there’s a will there’s a way” this wasn’t suppose to be taken literal 🤦🏽♂️
I'm not against zoos, as long as they're more like rescues.
But if it doesnt work out more than once, it's best to stop trying in instances like this.
I agree that zoos and aquariums can be vital for animal recovery and many have breeding programs to establish species in the wild. I also agree that there are instances where you just need to stop.
I like the balance in this comment.
@@stephaniemiller5034 Yea like the dolphin from Dolphin Tale movies.
@@Mo9kh thank you haha
@@stephaniemiller5034 The problem is is, most zoos and aquariums are not about conservation and animal recovery. No one can, or should, ever think the best place for breeding programmes to take place is in Europe or the Americas, potentially thousands of miles away from their natural habitats
*Living thing gets kidnapped and put in a small cage*
*Dies of stress, boredom, depression, lack of space, injuries and bad diet*
Humans: Gee I wonder why it died??
Clearly more testing is needed.
Nice pfp
Dundee those answers came after your question smart one we only know this because it died in a tank 👌🏼 not before
The things you've said in bold came after your question, so now we know why they died, and I feel this is a very pointless comment.
Glad you aren't one?
This was deeply troubling to watch. Those animals deserved so much more
So I came to learn why we can’t keep shark in tanks and still on the end of the video I don’t know why good job👍
They damage themselves on the walls of the tank, they literally said that. It's death by attrition. It's also probably psychologically damaging to the animal to not be able to roam hundreds of miles through deep water of the open ocean.
''mmh, it seems like the sharks are dying if we catch them - LET'S TRY AGAIN!'
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results"- Albert Einstein
The definition of intelligence is trying once and never again.
-- Thomas Edison
Lets try it again so we can do it right this time
Sologuy 95 - Far Cry 3 - Vaas*
@Kate I agree with you, except for the first sentence. We learn from failure, but when it's a life in the game, the failure leading to death, I think is better to get all the information posibile before atempting.
Those poor sharks died because the people that captured them didn't know their needs, they didn't know all the information they could get about white sharks. If there are more persons that are trying to do the same thing, that can lead to the extintion of the species. This is a really serious problem.
Why can’t we just stick to documentaries and studying them from the ocean?
Most of us don’t even care after seeing them for like 5 minutes at most. Just leave them alone
There’s a thing called money
And people are willing to give it up to see some fish in a tank
ILLumi ._. Or they can spend money to study them in the ocean
some aquariums and zoos are actually for conservation and preservation of species.
its still going to mess with the environment
Arson Barn I don’t think it’ll work
Thank you for teaching me!
very well done video , a good source of learning!!!!!
It’s almost as ifff the sharks are supposed to be left in their habitats to survive
ifffffff
Memo Galva what you you mean if
😃😃👌😉
Borax Guy whoosh
Borax Guy The comment was meant to be sarcastic...
These animals simply are too active for captivity, its not like a reef fish that lives its entire life in a square mile, these things road trip across the seas.
Preach. Humans are sick sometimes
Danny debatable for some
Dr Suezz productions its not fair
Yeah, leave these sharks alone.
I wonder- someone mentioned thet sharks may have other senses. I wonder if the reason the keep dying isn't the lack of space, but rather the tank walls inhibiting or overwhelming those senses by distorting the signals, and if we could make different tank walls that didn't do that...
I think all you need is to have a giant aquarium, like the size of the Atlantic or Pacific oceans & they will be good.
End aquariums and zoos, transition to natural history museums. You’ll learn just as much about animals from taxidermy as you would from looking at an animal in a cage.
Sanctuaries for rescued animals that can never return to the wild are a different thing, and so is keeping endangered animals in captivity in the hopes of breeding for repopulation. But if you want to see some exotic wild animals just watch the BBC docs, they’re amazing.
Actually there's this one place where I know we could safely fit thousands of sharks! It's called the ocean! Crazy right??
melisa d not to sure about the safely part
Rip of failure safety for the sharks.
melisa d WHAAA REALLY No WAY
Killer whales? They eat sharks for breakfast. Lol. Not against you though, the ocean is better and safer but not completely safe ;)
Please stop. Also most zoos hold animals that can longer live in the wild, or else they'll die. As for aquariums, most if not all aquariums make it so that their tanks are similar to the great open sea the animals they'll hold are used to. They live comfortably. The sharks did not, of course, so this is why they stopped holding great whites.
"The audience increased by 30 %". If you were wondering why they kept trying over and over again.
for the shekels
i hate capitalism
@@polo-pr9ln its not capitalism, its people. Stop blaming an idea. Blame the evil people. The idea its just there, its not good or evil.
@@polo-pr9ln If you read a history book you would hate communism even more.
Vote with your feet
So they kept trying to make it work even though it was clearly proving to be a horrible idea? How about we just leave wildlife in the wild with the respect and care it deserves
I remember as s teen waiting anxiously for the shed aquarium to showcase their great white as they advertised they will have one soon. The advertisements continued for many years and i finally gave up waiting. Until this day as far as i know and i might be wrong they were never able to have one.
So putting a massive marine animal used to swimming up to hundreds of miles a day inside a tank to live doesn't work out? Who knew?
They put whales into an aquarium they are a massive marine animal and swims hundred miles a day basically those people thought that it would be the same but seeing what happened to them they stopped.
@@MkSupra you can‘t quite compare them to whales though. Whales will rise to the surface to breathe, sharks need movement ro do so.
FOR CONTENTS AND DEM BUCKS YOU SILLY
You didnt know before you watched this video
@@anon2916 But imagine the amount of research possibilities these companies have, they just dont want to deal with the confrontation of murdering those animals for our amusement
They need to stop trying. This is too sad. As terrifying as these sharks can be I also admire them for their wild, unbreakable spirit
You are very beautiful...
varun rathi why does every Indian man on earth try to pick up white women in the internet
@@dohk1105 they want to see bobs
@@inova- and vagene
I'm not sure unbreakable spirit is the right phrase considering most of them broke quite soon and refused to eat leading to their deaths
Such a cool and interesting video, thanks
I saw one of those juvenile great white sharks at Monterey Bay Aquarium. I’m glad they no longer try to bring them in. Given what we know of them - that they travel great distances in their lifetime - it makes sense that they can’t adapt to aquarium life. Not even in that vast Open Ocean exhibit at MBA.
Wow, it's almost like this animal shouldn't be in captivity! Who would've though!?!
let's keep trying to put it in captivity though!!
Yeah cmon guys let's go get a shark for my toilet's upper tank! ! I think I saw one in a van outside the walmart!!
Who would have thought until they tried it...? Duh, you have to try things before you make conclusions.
+applesauceiloveyou obviously, but the fact that they kept on doing it is what is wrong about it.
+Denilson 415 to be fair they needed to make sure it wasn't an issue like the shark was ill or some other issue happened
Okay, you need a large tank? I got an idea, HOW BOUT YOU LEAVE THEM IN THE OCEAN? WORLDS BIGGEST SHARK TANK!
Lol. You aren’t wrong, but they did have good intentions, you know. They were trying to see how to keep it in captivity to give it a healthier, longer life. Sadly, that just isn’t plausible for some animals. Many, many animals do amazingly in captivity because there are many less hazards, and because their habitats and diets are easier to recreate. Great White Sharks just don’t have a habitat that we can recreate in captivity. People are now, instead of keeping them in captivity and killing them, tracking them in the wild instead. This means we get to learn from the sharks, and they get to keep on living their lives.
@@someonewhoexists7350 In the end, Mother Nature will always win. Some animals thrive better in their own, natural environment. It's best we leave it that way
@@user-li8sx4yj4s 458 123 I agree, and I think that in the end they really were just trying to get more visitors because they had a great white shark. But the first shark was to see if they could take care of one. Because if they didn't try, they wouldn't know whether they were the types of animals that did good in captivity or not.
458 123 i think youre missing the over all point. Don’t you find it the least bit interesting that some species can be captivated while others like this can’t? Don’t you kinda wanna know why?
@@Demonanimator some can be bored
The longest one was in captivity was 6 months in the Monterrey bay aquarium the documentary on pbs was amazing
Thank god we got youtube and can view them in there natural environment. And in turn hopefully close down all aquariums and zoos.
"they have trouble with walls" I WONDER WHY
sharks have small brains
Epic Remarc He has a point
@@teth.small brain
@@terryprofitt6902 a wall is not a natural thing a shark comes across daily.
@@sara.rae08 and they have a small brain
Aquariums are disgustingly cruel on all species trapped there
i totaly agree you could say the same things about zoo´s.
Leave the animals in their home where they are comfortable, if you want to go see some sharks, go to their home.
+GeeBaby Concepts That sounds deadly
I don't care, they are fish
Lmao but killing chickens pigs and cows is fine
Plot twist: There are no great white sharks so that one doesn't smash the glass door like it did with Aquaman. You never know how many more Aqua people are out there
plot twist: build a absolutely gargantuant tank in the ocean
imprisoning living things for human entertainment is wrong on so many levels
Do you have a pet?
@snackhydra Just because we can doesn't mean we should. Ever seen Jurassic Park...
It’s for education not entertainment
Caleb Regi it’s for human entertainment not education. We can learn everywhere about them without taking them out of their natural habitat.
@@sori4ever No it's for education, We may mix entertainment values when teaching others, but I'll learn more from being entertained then simply being bored and waiting, we can learn limited info when they are in the wild as it would take resources to continue tracking an animal for study. Hence aquariums and zoos, plus it makes it easier for the public to learn about them
Humans: kidnapping and keeping animals captive
Also humans: WhY aRe ThEy DyInG ??
You do realize zoos do that?
We keep animals captive lol?
IlFrostIl absolutely and I think it is just as cruel...
@@sarahlegay7067 you're doing the same thing to your household pets then.
@Adam l. Harper well this is a point lost I don't even remember posting this.
@@user-ko3te7oy6d yup
I remember seeing this great white at the Monterey aquarium and I remember it being huge! Lol I was only 9-10 years old atm
“The shark died shortly after being released, they don’t know why” 😂😂😂
So basically great white sharks are claustrophobic
...indeed...seems they are... :-(
Nawid Bosty they're afraid of Santa Claus?
can't they see from above
*LOL*
Scientists: Do not put great whites in aquariums.
Sea World: Bet
Scientists: SEAWORLD
Sea World: Come See Our New Great White Display
*dies an hour later*
The next day
News: There was a shooting in sea world animals where fine but employees weren't
Me: HAHAHAH THATS WHAT YOU GET LEAVE THEM ALONE
Bob Robert That's just like saying sharks lives are more valuable than humans and just because they had a great white shark, you get to laugh at them if they get shot..
Scientists: oh wow so cool!
Sea world: uh yah
Sharks: breaks tank and eats sea world employees
LMAOOO
Quartz Jaws meets Jurassic World
Take THAT , captivation!
This makes my heart hurt. 😓
Been obsessed w/ sharks since I was a kid.
honestly this sounds horrible for sharks... they're already dying due to the affects of our actions, so we should just leave them alone
i read this with Steven voice xD
It would be better for us to understand how great white sharks live for us to save them. The best way to do so is to leanr how to keep them in captivity.
And we have learned far more from these attempts then we have from any other research of great white sharks. And currently, we still dont know how they breed, where they breed, what their patterns are, and so on.
zCeras Only a dozen or so humans are ATTACKED, not killed, by sharks every year. The total fatalities are a couple.
shut up and don't eat fish so
If we leave them alone we can't continue research on keeping them alive, their habits and all in all how to stop us from killing them you idiot
If I was in captivity I'd lose the will to live too.
I know that this has nothing to do with the video but look up hilltop church on google and watch some of their videos
If I was trapped in an aquarium I'd loose the will to live too.. Cus I can't breathe underwater
+Balzsack mcdouchwad hahahaha gold 😂😂
+fakeaccount8888 Well sharks arent fish are they?
+Titus Hickman yes, they are
i learnt so much
I feel ya, I have the same problem w gold fish.
never noticed they didn't have white sharks in aquariums, i didn't really acknowledge it, now that this video randomly shows up in my recommendations, im suddenly interested...
the world works in mysterious ways.
a very strange world indeed
T Mursp ikr
T Mursp sameeee
I always thought the Georgia aquarium also had white sharks
Mackenney Mackall you live in Georgia?
me and sharks have an agreement they stay out of my home I stay out of theirs it's been working so far lol
jimmy climer you copied that from the bug video
jimmy climer true lol
jimmy climer true
That's right Jimmy... step in my home you finna get lit up fam
jimmy climer same.
They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
Impossible bc physiologically they can’t withstand it- vs the fact that they just shouldn’t *be caged bc it’s morally wrong and depressing for them😒. Love it.
I don't need to see them. Let them live in their oceans.
@xo Lynn Do you ever heard the word "Ecosystem" ???
Oh you don’t want to see them let’s put them all back🥺
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@@ermaltheball9604 oh someone wants to see them let's make them suffer in a tank for your 5 minutes of awe 🥺🥺🥺
@@ermaltheball9604 if you really think looking at a shark for 2½ minutes before not caring anymore is worth killing these animals you are soulless
The general public doesn’t need to see a live great white
@Lovely Wahu ever
Wht not?
I think they do need to see one. It would probably help it's image, not to be seen as monster anymore, but as the fascinating animal they are.
Though since they don't do well in captivity I'm glad they didn't keep trying.
Tiger this ^
Tiger no animal should be in captivity not just sharks . Only animals that are near extinction and need human help get the pass
Its funny how they try to make it out like they had some major award winning breakthrough
Dang some delicate sharks man
I can’t help but think this whole process is an absolute nightmare for the sharks
All the creatures in captivity
@@samantharosepillay3962 Have you met a dog? Or any domesticated species for that matter?
I am sorry for my bad English it's not my first language.
@@Amy_the_Lizard There's obviously a world of difference between dogs and white sharks though.
Domesticated animals have gone through literally thousands of years of human-controlled selective breeding to make them better suited to being domesticated, making them friendlier and often smaller, more docile and easier to tame.
Even less intensely breed creatures that we have as pets like various lizards and birds are smaller and easier to take care of, yet a lot can go wrong with them too.
In fact essentially all domesticated creatures can still massively suffer mental and physical issues from improper care. The only exception probably being like, insects.
So imagine trying to adapt a great white shark, even a relatively small or young one, to living in captivity in a small environment, after being corralled and transported which is often a hugely stressful thing for them.
The whole process is an absolute nightmare for those sharks, they're massive, incredibly powerful creatures, it would take centuries of breeding to get them anywhere near naturally ready to live in such small, controlled environment, by then they'd have to be much dumber and docile, it really isn't worth it.
@@goten339 I wasn't saying that it wasn't horrible for the sharks, nor was I denying that animal abuse happens - obviously the animals being abused or improperly cared for are miserable. I was simply pointing out that plenty of domestic and captive bred animals are in fact perfectly happy, because it makes me mad when people act like ALL the animals in captivity are miserable because it simply isn't true.
i think we should just leave them in the ocean...
Ya think?
And stop killing them.
And stop poisoning the ocean.
He's onto something with that one
#leavesharksalone2k16
This is beyond the occam's razor, Solving a problem that should not even exsist. I wonder if there is a term for this?
Wow this was very informative and professionally done. But I still can’t leave a “like” because, you know...it’s “vox”
1:00 i thought the video ended who else thought that
I did 😂
Me too. lol
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hahaha meee
Being in quarantine really makes me feel for animals kept in cages and tanks
Yeah they be lucky lil feckers I'm having the time of my life I don't got to go anywhere
@@coughodemon8592 your grammar sounds like you're a 9 years old. Or less. Go to CZcams Kids, lil bud.
@@umar7632 that was unneeded
@@roryhalliday8254 sorry 😔👁️👄👁️
Sasha same. This is so sad
Kudos to Blathers to be able to keep a Great White Shark in his museum’s aquarium.
The only time I've been to an aquarium was in grade school.
It was kind of cool.
We don't need bring these animals to us, we need to go them; create an underwater observatory directly in their natural habitat so that we can observe them without obstructing their lives.
That seems like a good idea. They could even drop food down there sometimes to gather more creatures in busy hours.
Easier said than done, as mentioned in the video these species love to aimlessly roam around miles of ocean at high speed and never stay in one location for long.
So a single location wouldn't see much most of the time, and most people wouldn't be willing to sit in one location staring at boring, unchanging, usually murky open ocean for hours at a time.
Best we can hope for is scuba diving under strict supervision and guidance.
It exists already
yes!!+
That's a good idea
How about a human tank where sharks can come and see people
Ashish Mathew that would be dope
they already do this on that show shark tank
Exactly! What if animals and humans switch places? We wouldn't want to be treated like that, now do we? But of course, humans wouldn't think about that because we're "superior" and "have more power to do what we want". What in the world does sympathy even mean anymore...
maybe have a snack as well. and I'm only *half* joking.
Love this idea
Fascinating, really.
Got to see one at the monterey bay aquarium