Shark gives another Caesarean bite and saves babies
November 11th, 2009 - 3:35 am ICT by IANS
- Wellington, Nov 11 (DPA) A shark in a New Zealand aquarium bit the stomach of another one, effectively giving it a Caesarean operation and saving the lives of four babies, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Staff at Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World, in Auckland, were initially dubious when visitors came running to tell them that baby fish were spilling from a wound in a female shark’s stomach after it had been bitten by another shark, the New Zealand Herald reported.
The staff found the female with a large gaping stomach wound and four babies swimming in the tank.
Aquarist Fiona Davies said it was common for sharks to take chunks out of each other, even in the wild, but she had never heard of anything like the effective operation, which had probably saved the babies’ lives.
She said staff did not know the mother was pregnant and if she had given birth naturally, most likely at night, the babies would have been eaten by adult sharks and stingrays before they could be rescued.
Davies said the shark that helped had to bite a certain part of the stomach to release the babies without killing them or the mother.
The young sharks were removed to a nursery tank where visitors can view them before they are released into the wild.
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November 11th, 2009 at 10:00 am
a most remarkable story if interpreted correctly. complex social organisation of so-called lower species is being studied by scientists and has shown that all species have many complex behaviours related to survival. harlow’s notorious and famous monkey wire nipple mothering experiments had fantastic implications re the nature of mothering. at first he believed his findings that real mother monkeys could be replaced by hanging milk filled nipples from a wire mesh. it appeared as if the monkeys thrived and could grow to adulthood without real mothers. he was totally wrong and as a great flexible creative scientist he threw out all his earlier assumptions about mothering. he was shocked to find that these so-called normal adult chimps could not mount and have sexual relations. also he failed to see that the baby chimps played and nurtured eachother therefore bypassing marasmus and surviving without a mother’s love. a baby who is not touched by its mother will fail to thrive and die even if fed milk. if a mother dog does not lick ther genitals of its puppies they will also fail to thrive and die. well known by farmers in australia if a sheep mother bonding with her baby sheep occurs by too long a separation (it will most certainly die of starvation) the farmer will stuimulate the vulva of the mother sheep the hormone pitocin will be released and rebonding with the mother will occur. of course a shark doing a caesarian section in human terms is very fanciful but in shark terms this is an act of pikuach nefesh in hebraic terms a la the shark. all geneticists know that within every human being every specie from the crocodile to the lion to the mosquito over millions of years of evolution is who we are. a charles manson the lsd freak who degutted sharon tates and roman polanski,s baby is an example of a human crocodile. in siem reap cambodia the land of almost 2 million massacred men women and children by the khmer rouge of pol pot on the wall of a buddhist temple is a bas relief of as crocodile swallowing humans. all humans must realise that within all of us is the totality of “good and evil” and even today most of us have not learnt the lessons and actions of abraham aveinu and the lord siddharta gautama buddha. these 2 of the greatest of men were wealthy scions and princes who were not corrupted by riches and comfort and the worship of idols and human sacrifice. dr adam rosenblatt