Secular Café: Cindy the Friendly Shark - Hoax

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Cindy the Friendly Shark - Hoax Jun 4th 2012, 23:14 This is from a few years back, but someone recently mentioned it on Facebook. Cindy the friendly shark - a great internet hoax - Digital Journal snopes.com: Shark's Love - Arnold Pointer Shark's Love for Man Hoax From Digital Journal: Quote: "Arnold Pointer a professional fisherman from south of Australia set free from a certain death a big female White Shark that was caught in his fishing nets. Now the fisherman has a problem: He says: "It's been two years and she doesn't leave me alone. She follows me everywhere I go and her presence scares all the fishes. I don't know what to do anymore..." It is hard to get rid of an almost 17 feet long shark since the White Sharks are protected by the wildlife conservation, but a mutual affection established between Arnold and "Cindy", the story continues. Arnold is quoted as saying: "Once I stop the boat she comes to me, she turns on her back and let me pet her belly and neck, she grunts, turn her eyes, and move her fins up and down hitting the water happilly..." That's a hoax. The pictures are real and were taken by shark researchers. Sharks can get sort-of-hypnotized when their snouts are touched, and the researchers sometimes do this to sharks for the amusement of tourists. I think that it's an adaptation for avoiding running into large objects, like a reef or a whale.

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