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DavidSalmoni18 karma

My expectation is always the bigger animal wins, no matter the animal.

Horses don't like to fight in groups, neither do ducks. So the bigger animal always will win.

Chimpanzees are one of the best group fighters. Lions do the same. They're good at group fighting. But the rest of them don't do so well.

DavidSalmoni11 karma

I cry almost every sunday.

DavidSalmoni10 karma

My very favorite place to scuba dive is Fakarava. It is one of my favorite places in the world. If you go at the right time, you will be shoulder-to-shoulder with 600 sharks that are relaxed and calm.

If you get the opportunity to see a show called DEADLY ISLAND, that I host, it comes out probably in the springtime on Animal Planet, watch for an episode called SHARK ISLAND because that was where I found this place, And it was the most incredible place to dive ever.

There's another place that's close to that island called Rangaroa. And the two of these places - if you're going to do one, you might as well do both.

it's AMAZING.

DavidSalmoni9 karma

That's good! Hopefully a few of my brain cells are still going. We have to deal with all our animal's problems as intelligently as we can, otherwise we get bit.

DavidSalmoni7 karma

WELL, it actually isn't that complicated of an answer.

What we know about soft-shelled turtles are that they are the deep divers, typically. So as you get deeper, there is more pressure on your shell - so the ones that are less rigid have less opportunity to be broken. If you were a very ridged turtle, the pressure would just break your shell - whereas these guys can go much much deeper and have more access to a variety of food because they can handle the pressure.

And for freshwater- the evolution of it's come from seawater to freshwater, but I would say typically when you see that, it could more of their habits in how they decide to forage or even in the more northern areas, how they decide to bury themselves.