• ComradeSalad
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    6 months ago

    Ooo, those are very good choices! I’ve always loved the Greenland shark! The Cookie Cutter is also a very good comrade for laying waste to the US nuclear submarine fleet in the 50’s and 60’s.

    I do have to say that Lemon sharks are quite loveable though. The puppies of the ocean, as they also evolved group cohesion brain structures, and by extension commonly become quite friendly and attached to humans.

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      6 months ago

      Holy shit I did not know that fun fact about cookie cutter sharks. I just think they’re cute.

      Lemon sharks are certainly in my type 5 but they can get possessive and I don’t like being tied down

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        Yeah, cookie cutter sharks were attracted to sonar arrays used on early US nuclear subs since the material mimicked the blubber of dolphins and whales they usually eat, and they kept taking large chunks off of the soft rubber sonar cone which ruined its effectiveness.

        It caused millions of dollars of damages, and the US navy thought the Soviets were using frogmen or some unknown weapon to mess with them. They only figured it out when they caught a cookie cutter in the act and changed the designed.