Marine Biologist Answers Shark Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED
Marine Biologist Amani Webber-Schultz answers the internet's burning questions about sharks! Why do hammerhead sharks look the way they do? What are the most dangerous types of sharks? Why do sharks have so many teeth? What are baby sharks called? Amani answers all these questions and much more!
Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Constantine Economides
Editor: Ron Douglas
Expert: Amani Webber-Schultz
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Assistant Camera: Brittany Berger
Audio: Gabe Quiroga
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Came for the shark earrings, stayed for the really clear communication and fascinating info
Same, earrings (ear sharks?) are adorable!
Shark earrings AND shark shirt! She's the coolest!
Okay Mrs. Frizzle!
Uh cause that’s how God made them to be.
@@ctech14367 *How natural processes like evolution made them, you mean.
I can't get enough of experts speaking passionately about their area of expertise.
Then you’ll LOVE the Ologies podcast
Yeah, their eyes shine when they talk about topic in their expertise
I know me too. There's a handful of things about the time we live in that are quite alright
Worded it PERFECTLY
هتروع
Can we talk about her dedication to sharks-not only in how articulate and knowledgeable she is but also the fact that she’s wearing the most adorable shark-themed outfit and has a shark tattoo? 🥰
Where was the tattoo 😮 that’s awesome
@@enbykenz on her right hand
Ms Frizzle IRL in the best possible way
@enbykenz it's her inner right forearm, not hand
And shark earrings 😁🦈!
she's got shark tattoos, shark earrings, shark coat... yep she's a shark expert alright.
Cringe
@@TheRealist007 grow up
@@TheRealist007 consider giving up
Shes really good at explaining things about sharks. i'd like to learn more. whats her social media.
curly_biologist
Thank you for asking this, and thanks for the response
Agreed!!
she also co-hosts a podcast called sharkpedia!
Simp
The shark shirt I’m dying. Too cute, you can tell she loves what she does and is passionate about it. Awesome.
Yeah everything screams: “I’m a marine biologist”. Her passion is great to watch.
She is my inspiration too 🤩🤩
And the earring!
She's wearing super cute matching shark earrings, too! Oml I _need_ thooose!! 🦈 💙
@@berpfuluand the shark tattoo as well haha
Please bring her back again. Marine biology was my dream career but I ended up in another major. I would go back to school if I could to completely change fields but for now, more marine biologists please. If you can find someone who specializes in whale communication or penguins I would be so happy too. I didn't know there was an omnivorous shark. And I want to know more about that second tagging method she mentioned; the one where they ping their location with sound. So many interesting facts.
There's a large network across the ocean involving many scientists who upkeep receivers. Basically, any animal that has an acoustic tag (doesn't have to be just sharks) will show up. Think of it like radar. The tag is constantly sending out a signal, and whenever it gets close enough to a receiver, it'll get pinged and data will be recorded. Because marine animals are usually very migratory, they often go out of range and will reach receivers all over the world. Scientists will share this data with one another so you can track whatever animal it is you tagged. So you can tag a shark in Florida, and then layer be informed by someone in Australia that their receiver picked up the signal of the tag you out in that shark
I am returning to school for marine bio, specializing in pinnipeds 🙂 I worked in the Alaska sea life center for a while and loved it. I also raised seahorses in HS for my independent study (for behavior), and worked with many types of corals, and other salt water fish over the few years since graduating! Edit to add: currently writing stories for kids to help conservation
@@samiam6303 so huh what do sea horses do aside of having tons of babies? i heard theyre an endangered species now.
@@kinnoyu8448 came here to write almost exactly what you said. One quick addition is that satellite tagging is really useful, but can only give us information when the tag is above the water, which for some species is really rare. Acoustic tags however can give us data wherever there is a receiver in range, so can give us much higher quality data in regions with robust receiver networks. Acoustic tags also tend to last a LOT longer, both due to how they are deployed and the tags themselves
I’m telling you right now go live your dream of being a Marine Biologist you got one life so if that’s your dream go do it fr
The “most dangerous shark” question was actually referring to loan sharks & payday lenders. While payday lenders are extremely predatory I think the bigger issue is the culture that allows those lenders to exist in the first place.
Every kid in the 90s wanted to be a Marine Biologist... She actually did it.
Yes! I was about to comment that, every kid in school wanted to be a Marine Biologist I remember, good for her following through :)
Facts. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was a kid. lol.
I minored in Fishery Biology
“They do not have 20/20 vision. Neither do I, as you can see” 😅🤣 I love her
As a person who adores sharks, it's very nice to see that people understand them as actual beings instead of eating machines. Sharks have a life, too. And it shouldn't be disrespected just because it's not a human being. 🦈💙
Fr, sharks don't even want to eat people
Fortunately I think the majority of people understand that nowadays.
@@maddieb.4282 my father is not one of those people sadly lol
So do "farm" animals yet people exploit them😗
@@dudedelrey because they're bred to be eaten. Sharks aren't really food.
I appreciate how she's turning the Twitter jokes into actual questions, like the #loanshark one haha!
10:17 I'm sorry, what??? She just glossed over that so casually. 250 to 500 years is an *insane* amount of time for an animal. I need more info about this!
Unfortunately there isn't a whole lot more! Somniosidae, or "sleeper sharks" have very little known about them. They live in very deep, very cold water. This makes them difficult to study and difficult to find. We can certainly infer a lot by having specimens, but knowing things like behavior can be very difficult.
I believe the oldest greenland shark ever recorded was estimated to be around 600 years old
Sharks are older than trees
they're the longest-living vertebrates we know of! like she said, animals in very cold environments have slower metabolism rates (at least if they're cold-blooded), resulting in longer life spans. there are deep-sea sponges that can live for thousands of years, one individual has been found to be 11 thousand years old!
If you think that's crazy... look into jellyfish. And some types of sea sponges. Now THOSE live a long time!!!
She's committed. Shirt, earrings, tattoo. Love it!
This is so fascinating. I never knew sharks had scales!
I never knew they have existed on the Earth longer than dinosaurs.
@@commanderiosifstalin4938 they even existed before trees existed
That’s crazy to think about
I didn't know they didn't have bones
Count yourself lucky lol, I found that fact out manually
I had no idea about the three methods of reproduction. I love seeing experts light up when explaining their knowledge ✨️
It's oviparous (egg laying), viviparous (live birth), and ovoviviparous (eggs develop and hatch inside the mother)
I've been a diver for many years. The sharks that I have dove with seem really curious about people. Oceanic white tips have been very "aggressive". Meaning they are willing to approach pretty closely. I have a picture of me pushing a white tip away. I don't like touching sea life but this guy was just invading my space.
aggresively curious
I think you’ll find you were invading his. You can leave the ocean.
I love this marine biologist so much. I could listen to her talk about sharks all day.
You can tell she loves her job. She is so knowledgeable!
I mean these are pretty basic stuff for a marine biologist who spent her entire life learning about these animals...
11:29 That’s an understatement. A few aquariums have tried to keep Great Whites, they all either die quickly or are eventually released. Aquariums world wide have essentially given up on the idea because it always ends so badly. Creatures like this belong in the ocean.
Wired must have some of the top people in the world to find the best experts for their content
Not just that, but super enthusiastic, charismatic ones, too!
I just imagine it's the CEO going "i want SHARKS this week, FIND ME THE EXPERT!!!" and sending their assistant on a DnD journey with a sword and shield into some kind of expert dungeon
@ 11:46 “How long have sharks been swimming in the ocean?“. Her answer of 450 million years is mind-boggling in and of itself. But my favorite analogy is the fact that sharks have been around longer than trees. I almost can’t get my head wrapped around that
Well here’s another mind blower… in all that time, they practically haven’t really changed. Do you know how perfect you have to be at your job for evolution to be like “welp no need”. Well look out our species for example and how much we have changed just in the last like 10million years and that is a freakishly long time…
Please bring her back again. I love the way she explains the answers to every question. Very informative. Thank you gurll...
She's the person I wished I'd grow up to be when I was maybe 8 years old. Much respect ❤️
She hit the nail on the head in the opening statement…”we are putting ourselves in their environment” We wouldn’t go wondering into a lion enclosure, or go on an unsupervised safari tour bc we know the dangers. Play silly games win silly prizes
She reminds me of how my mom is with space. Its cute to see people talk about something they’re really passionate about lol
Just imagine she had a passion for helping people and didn't study animals that don't want anything to do with you.
I have a crazy story about a shark encounter I had a few weeks ago! My family crab in western Maryland and Delaware, where the water is brackish but shallow. We were putting out 100 ft trotlines with chicken necks every foot in water about chest deep, and we would wade along them with our nets to scoop up any crabs we found. My sister and I were taking the lead as she would pick the line up out of the water for me to catch the crabs. We feel a sharp tug and see a large dark mass in the water a few feet before us. My dumbass was like, " BIG FISH!" so I attempted to scoop it with my net. NOPE, it was a 5ft bull shark feeding on a chicken neck. It must have been young because it was pretty small, but as I saw its fins and face, I sort of malfunctioned and bopped it in the face with my net. It must have really been startled because it kinda thrashed around and then swam away. My sister and I were absolutely TERRIFIED once our brains caught up to what on earth had just happened. We were so shocked neither of us got bit, but I can guarantee we didn't stay in that water long after that! It was crazy. I have never in my life seen a shark that far up the river before, let alone a bull shark! I will be telling my grandkids this story when I'm 92 stg.
Omg that poor shark lol. Imagine you're innocently eating and suddenly a weird being you probably have never seen in your life whacks you in the face with another weird object. I would've been terrified and ran away as well, so I'm not surprised that it didn't bite you. Their brain most likely is more focused on how to escape than on fighting the threat, as happens with most animals anyway.
Bull sharks lay their eggs at the mouth of rivers and the babies hang out in the river or in the brackish waters until they’re big enough to go out to the open ocean to find a mate. So that’s exactly the kind of area I’d expect to see juvenile bull sharks. I live along a shallow estuary and I like to go bird watching there. If you watch the water, it’s not uncommon to see the dorsal fin or just the silhouette of a bull shark.
@@Annie_Annie__ little baby dorsal fins?
Lol, that's hilarious. Reminds me of a KZhead video, I think it's called 'Man and Bear Scare Eachother.'
Glad you and your sis were not hurt. Same with the shark. A little scare, but no real harm either way. I survived a great white attack when i was a kid. We live in aus so beach culture is pretty strong. There is this beach that at about waste high, it drops off into like 4 stories of water. Sorry just trying to explain the sudden depth. I was swimming way wayy wayyy out. My sister and mum were small blurs to me on the shore. It is also extremely populate with sea life, including seals and penguines. I seen my sister and mother bouncing up and down all crazy like. Then a dorsal fin goes right past my face and then the dread when the tail also comes by. I was hoping it was just a dolphin. It then smashes into me multiple times. I was left battered with i think broken ribs and welts all over my torso. I never got medical attention remember a good 2 months of healing. The only thing that saved me was a bottle nose dolphin and her young. They got in between the great white and were swimming around me while nudging me back to shore. I dont know if they survived. I really hope they did. I knew enough to stay clam and slowly swim back, even though inside i was screaming. Was about 15 feet or so. Scariest 20 mins of my life. My heart fell out my butt when i seen that tail and then looked down at it.
How are we not all talking about this fit? 🔥 🦈
Update: okay her science knowledge even outranks this amazing outfit
Listening to someone talk in their expertise is so calming. I notice when someone is an expert, the less judgemental they are about people who don't know.
You really learn something new everyday. She's so passionate about sharing her knowledge and it made me want to hear more. Awesome segment as always.
I dissected a small shark in my zoology class, and those livers are no joke, the species I dissected had 3 lobes of liver that completely covered all the other organs, so we had to cut out the super oily livers to even be able to see the rest of it's organs, so many paper towels..... and the lab smelled horrible (even with fume hoods and open doors)
I might be a shark lol 🤔😅
Fun fact. Orcas have been known to hunt down Great Whites just to eat their livers. They remove it very precisely, actually, and leave the carcass. Pretty insane.
No wonder orcas find them so yummy, killing great whites and just sucking their livers out leaving them otherwise intact
Oh no!! You cut open one of my little brothers?? Maybe I should tell my buddies to start opening up you humans... Of course I'm joking
I’d love to see octopus support!
"They don't have 20/20 vision, neither do I" 💀💀💀💀
More quality info in 15 minutes than 20 years of Shark Week lmao
currently in undergrad for marine science and really struggling, this video definitely helped me realize what I can do/become if I can just keep going!!
How is it going now? 😇
This is one of the best tech support vids I've seen. She was so good and had some interesting answers. 10/10
I am so glad to see a fellow Sistah who loves Marine Biology and is a Marine Biologist! I used to want to get into it and I took a couple of classes but I can't and I'm not getting in that ocean so I stick to aquariums, lol.
there are many benefits to being a marine biologist indeed
This was so awesome! Please have her come back and answer more questions!
0:30 Shark: "I'll give it a little nom to try it out" The little nom: **rips limb off human**
I didn’t know people actually became marine biologists. Most of my class wanted to be in marine biology and I can’t name a single one that actually became one
My best friend in hs wants to be a marine biologist, I hope he can fulfill that dream.
Im a marine biologist :)
Yay😄 ive been waiting for you guys to upload another animal expert video theyre my favorite hands down i love hearing and learning about what they have to say, wish i knew where to get more content like this
My biggest interest in life has always been aquatic life, but for some reason I've never found sharks to be very interesting. Thanks for giving me a much deeper appreciation of them.
The more you learn about them the more you are like “wtf designed this thing ????” They running literal hacks
I never knew bull sharks could go between seawater and saltwater. How fascinating.
Isn’t it seawater and fresh water?
Also salinated water!
Their nurseries are often estuaries. It's beneficial since the water there is murky and it's harder for larger ocean animals to see and live in the brackish water
There are a number of freshwater sharks, however! All of them are very endangered, but bull sharks are not the only sharks that can survive in freshwater
Same!!
My favorite series on KZhead! I can’t get enough of these 💯
ohhh i've been following her on twitter for quite some time now! i'm so happy you guys got her
You can't just drop the "Sharks don't have bones, they're made entirely out of cartilage" bomb on us and not elaborate
8:33 loooove the "hunger games"...so convenient and smart
"Sharks don't have 20/20 vision... Neither do I, as you can see. " 🤣🤣
I can see that she is very passionate about what she is doing yet she is pretty cool while explaining it to us so! Glad she's having screen time on this channel, loved the content
I can’t get enough of these interviews! They’re fascinating. 🎉
I learned more in this video than I did in all my middle and high school years of biology. Thank you and love the shark earrings 🤩
you're amazing! it's fascinating the way you explain things I can tell how passionated you are about sharks and it's really inspiring
I love that the photo used at 5:12 is credited to the host of the video. It's genuinely awesome that she can just show up on the internet and present her research for people to see.
this was absolutely FASCINATING! we need more of Amani - part 2 please!
First question: this was something my dad taught me when I was little too. He stressed that sharks almost never attack unprovoked, and that their detective instincts were to bite and head-butt (I guess he meant hit with nose). Love and miss you pops.
She’s who I wanted to be junior high. Wish I stuck to it. Bring her back. She’s phenomenal
This video is so amazing. I love how her explanations are simple and clear to understand. Bring her back!! :)
I really enjoyed this! Thank you, I hope she can come to the channel again. I would like to know more about sharks and their environment. She did a really great job T-T
I enjoyed how concise many of the answers were for these questions; it let her get a lot of QandAs in. Love sharks. Love them even more.
She was great and fascinating to listen to. I would have liked more than a split second between questions, however. The editing frankly felt stress-inducing.
i agree
I completely agree.
Omg her knowledge and personality is so infectious. I learned so much.
Thank you. A lot of great information is presented clearly at top speed. (I am very impatient)
Very knowledgeable! Thank you
I have an “unreasonable” phobia of sharks and I had difficulties even watching the video (because I was afraid that would pop up some photos of them 😂) but it was amazing and it made me feel less scared because she explains everything clearly and you can feel she’s very passionate. I love that, thank you!
I really enjoy the Tech Support videos, but I think this one was my favorite! Please do more!
I love people who have found their passion. You can just tell she loves what she does 🥹
Pretty hard to be a scientist if you dont love what you do. It takes a whole lot of dedication
shes really good at explaining different topics and her enthusiasm is really refreshing ^^
I loved this entire video, and hey! My favorite shark is the bonnethead too! They're just adorable, and I encounter them all the time here. Usually while fishing but sometimes when just kayaking or at the beach.
This put a smile on my face, love her!
I can’t believe I was intrigued by this.. I literally sat through the whole video and listened😂 I’m fascinated now!
This is one of m favourite tech support videos!
this was so enjoyable to watch. bring her back!
Hammer sharks - have 360 degree vision Also Hammer shark in the video: bonks his head against the cage 😂
this was amazing! I learnt so much! Love sharks
Amazing. I never really think about sharks, but the way she spoke about them was fascinating. Thank you, ma'am!!
She is so freaking cool and I love hearing her talk about sharks. I'm obsessed.
It’s actually pretty much impossible to keep a great white shark in captivity, at one point an aquarium in Japan attempted to keep a great white in captivity and it died in a matter of days. The Monterey Bay aquarium technically succeeded in keeping a great white shark for a long period of time but it was a young small one and they released it before it got too big.
This is my favorite one so far!!
Amazing vid thx for the info
Dang, I’m such a shark nerd and have watched so many hours of shark docs that I could of answered most of these! 🦈
This expert is SO cool. such passion!
more please!! so good!
You did an excellent job with the presentation. Hope to see more in the future; sharks are fascinating creatures.
Can I just say, I love that she pulled out the exact toy my 4 yo has! it even came with a book about the different sharks.
Fascinating! She was so chill! Loved her attitude and presentation style!
I'm really digging this series of asking experts! ❤
Your knowledge of sharks is awesome and amazing!
Isn't the Gympie shark also a freshwater shark and hard to find ?? I remember an episode of river monsters he caught on in a river in Australia.
She is so cool and smart! Love this series. 😊
Thank You Miss , very informative and interesting. I thought I knew a lot about sharks , boy was I wrong ! But I do know more now .
Fantastic - more like this please.
I could listen to her all day. Interesting topic and she explains everything very well. Love the enthusiasm!
my goal in life is being as well spoken as this lady right here… she even made me like sharks quite a bit.
dang this video really was just absolutely educational and incredibly entertaining. i know so much about sharks now, this is great
i’ve always had a fascination with sharks and this video was great. her shark earrings as well are so cute
Shark: (approaches surfer) Surfer: (screams) Shark: I have questions
It's funny that we always use vending machines and coconuts falling on your head as examples of "ways you are more likely to die", because I literally get a little anxious around vending machines and coconut trees thinking something might fall on me. Less so with the vending machines, but you definitely won't catch me walking under any coconut trees.
Coconut trees are the real killers
Unfortunately these sorts of statistics are very misleading, particularly when there is such a huge difference between the sample sizes. There are 8 billion people who could potentially fall victim to a falling coconut, but only a few hundred thousand people who could become the victim of a shark attack. I'll take my chances with the coconuts, they are far easier to deal with than sharks.
Finally! A video about my special good boys! Thank you for this blessing
Wonderful insight, thanks!