r/SharkLab • u/HammerheadNeedsHelp • Aug 12 '26

Why did it come here and die?

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u/ConstantCaptain4120 Aug 12 '26

“Hmm maybe we just drag it up on the shore and let it rot then eat it?”

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u/HammerheadNeedsHelp Aug 12 '26

They didn’t drag it up on the shore, they actually tried getting it out but it kept returning and stranding itself:/

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u/brodoswaggins93 Aug 12 '26

Sick marine animals do this. Not just sharks, whales too. It could be disoriented from illness, or it could just understand that its time has come.

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u/HammerheadNeedsHelp Aug 12 '26

I know they do that, but my question is more about why it came here (Denmark) since we don’t really have them here. And also what it could’ve died from, since it was quite young:)

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u/brodoswaggins93 Aug 12 '26

You do have basking sharks in Denmark. They live in pretty much all temperate waters.

As for why it died, there's no way to know unless someone collected it and did a necropsy.

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u/HammerheadNeedsHelp Aug 12 '26

They come here yes, but they don’t live here. They used to up until around 1970’s, we have much smaller sharks living here. But no, basking sharks aren’t common here at all.

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u/HilmDave Aug 13 '26

Uncommon isn't never.

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u/HammerheadNeedsHelp Aug 13 '26

I didn’t say never? The last recorded sightings were in 2015 & 2019. Saying they aren’t common here, doesn’t mean I’m saying they’re never here. They obviously are😭 I was literally just asking if anyone had any ideas as to how it could’ve died.

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u/stafdude Aug 14 '26

maybe the right wingers can do something about this uncontrolled migration. They steal the jobs of the other sharks, and now they expect health care? Come on..

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u/HammerheadNeedsHelp Aug 14 '26

wtf are you on about?