Why do sharks basically never eat people after giving them a test bite?
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When I was in Africa, one of the guides told me that lions don’t hunt humans because lions don’t know how good we taste. If a lion attacks a human they always have to put it down because the lion will go, “damn those fat omnivores taste good and that wasn’t very difficult.”
This is definitely a better answer for lions than for sharks, since we don't usually have the ability to remove individual sharks that nom on humans from the gene pool
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As for sharks,
it seems like there are enough humans in the water year round that humans would be a reliable source of food. It might simply come down to size. Humans “look” rather big. But sharks also eat seals I believe. Dammit. -
Sharks are thought to eschew humans as food because our meat is too lean. We aren’t fat *enough*, in a way they’re used to.
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