Shark Week!

Hello friends! As all of you probably know, August 4th kicked off the beginning of SHARK WEEK! YAAAAAAAY! If you were not aware of this, please come out from under that rock from which you are currently living. ANYWAYS, I love Shark Week. It is my favorite week of the whole entire year. Why you might ask? Well, sharks are my favorite animals. Again, why you might ask?

Sharks are amazing, magnificent creatures. There are so many different types of sharks. Many people think all sharks are the same or that Great White Sharks are the only sharks that exist. Well my friends, these people are sadly mistaken. There are the Great Whites, but there are also Hammerheads, Bull, Nurse, Lemon, Tiger, Sand Tiger, Black Tip and so many more. My personal fav is the Greenland Shark. The Greenland shark looks so cute. It looks like its always smiling. Its skin also make it look like the shark is made out of stone. The Greenland shark can be found from Greenland all the way to the coast of the United States.

Everyone thinks sharks are animals who like to attack humans and that they're bad creatures. This statement in itself is false. Most of the time when sharks attack, they mistake humans for seals or other types of sea creatures. A shark actually has very bad eye sight. Some sharks, like the Greenland Shark, are blind. Sharks actually help the ocean life. Sharks eat bigger fish in the sea. Without sharks, there would be more bigger fish. With more bigger fish, there would be less smaller fish. Smaller fish eat the algae off the Coral Reef. Therefore, without sharks the Coral Reef would be hidden by algae and the ocean would not be as pretty. Plus, us humans venture into there homes and create disturbance. Some people hunt sharks for Shark Fin Soup. The amount of sharks killed by humans is so much bigger than the amount of humans killed by sharks. You are more likely to be killed by a strike of lightning or even a vending machine than you are to be killed by a shark. Just think about it.

Let's reflect for a second and think about the ocean. I don't know about you guys, but it's not everyday that I think about the species that live in the ocean. When I do though, I think that it's crazy to think about a whole other world under the surface of the water. Even if you do think about the life underneath the surface, the species that are right under the surface of the water is completely different from the species on the ocean floor. There are big creatures and small creatures, Gigantic and microscopic. It truly is amazing.

Like I mentioned earlier, many people all over the world are killing sharks for Shark Fin Soup. Millions of sharks are killed each year for their fins for this soup. Sometimes sharks are pulled aboard, get their fins cut off, and are thrown back into the ocean. That is animal cruelty. Many sharks, like the Whale Shark, are harmless creatures and for them to be tortured by humans for soup is wrong. If by some chance any of you reading this eat Shark Fin Soup or know someone who does, think about this. How would you like it if someone took you into a room, cut off your arms, and threw you back out onto the street. Sharks are an endangered species at the moment. Please don't be the reason the become extinct. Instead, try to help save them.

Well, I think that is the end of my Shark Week post. Have fun watching the rest of Shark Week on Discovery Channel! I know I will!