Testing if Sharks Can Smell a Drop of Blood

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Health & Science Unreal Animals science oceanpredators sharks bloodthirsty

Scientific proof Pixar sits on a throne of lies.

Also, thanks to Discovery for putting my life in danger.

Links for the build instructions: https://www.dropbox.com/s/iqn14ydzqaf...

Sean's Hodgin's channel who did most of the heavy lifting for making the boxes:

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Pump animation made by the talented Jared Owens:

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Connor was the beast feeding the sharks underwater. He has some amazing footage for licensing and his own YouTube channel.
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More info that was promised-
What is likely happening is that the sharks can smell the blood but it's just not in a quantity that is interesting to them especially since they don't love human blood that much (btw, I spoke with a marine biologist and mammal blood is all the same from a chemical marker stand point so cow blood is a suitable substitute for human blood). If I did the experiment again, I would want to test human blood vs. fish blood.

This is the most definitive study done to date in a control lab environment on what is least and most interesting to them: The Biology of Sharks and Rays Peter A. Klimley and Steven Oerding; ISBN-13: 9780226442495. Particularly pages 134-140. Figure 6.7; Table 6.2

Thanks to these folks for providing some of the music in the video:

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Andrew Applepie -

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Summary: I've always wanted to test if sharks can really smell a single drop of blood in the water from 1 mile away. So I went to the Bahamas in shark infested waters and set up an experiment to get to the bottom of things.

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