Amity 🦎🐳

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Amity 🦎🐳

@delphindae

My heart belongs to Particularly Large Lizards Cetacean Enthusiast, Dinosaur Enjoyer and Amateur Animal Photographer

South East Queensland เข้าร่วม Eylül 2020

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·3h

@TylerGreenfieId Also people exaggerating or misconstruing the effect Jaws has doesn't mean it never had an effect in the first place. That is no different from people trying to combat the popular image of Sharks as bloodthirsty killing machines by painting them as totally harmless sea puppies.

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·3h

@TylerGreenfieId You are arguing with a strawman. I have never once said - or even implied - that Jaws was the first or only piece of media that made people hate sharks. All I am saying is considering how ubiquitous Jaws is, it's a bit silly to pretend it wasn't a sizable piece of that puzzle.

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Tyler Greenfield@TylerGreenfieId·13h

Well the "Jaws effect" isn't real, for starters. Jaws was part of a larger, older social phenomenon responsible for the public's increased interest in/fear of sharks. The outcome would've been the same even if Jaws had never been made.

Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae

Maybe a hot take but I think a lot of people learned about the effect Jaws had on Sharks and attempted to over-correct by going to far in the opposite direction. A modern creature feature horror is never going to have the impact Jaws did.

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·9h

@tim_couillard Like everything about nature, the idea of The Jaws Effect has been massively over simplified. People hear "Jaws had a negative effect on Sharks" and automatically think "Jaws is the reason everyone hates Sharks." Jaws was a major contributing factor, but not the sole cause.

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Uncle Tim@tim_couillard·10h

@delphindae Also, claims about the “Jaws effect” were mostly bullshit anyway.

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·20h

@cetaology The general public is obsessed with over correcting when it comes to wildlife. They understand that a perception of a species is wrong, so decide to "fix" it by swinging wildly in the opposite direction. Pandas and Dolphins are actually bad, Sharks and Wolves are actually good.

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◜ Daily Ceta ◞ 🫍@cetaology·20h

@delphindae I think also people need to realize that woobifying is also going to cause a lot of harm to

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·21h

@cetaology Also Korokoro the Hector's Dolphin!

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·21h

@cetaology There's a lot of interesting individuals from the Bottlenose populations at Port River, Tangalooma and Monkey Mia here in Australia. In particular Billie from Port River has maybe one of the coolest stories and legacies of any wild dolphin.

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◜ Daily Ceta ◞ 🫍@cetaology·2d

Im also gonna try and do more wild indivuals to!! If u have and recommendations lmk

◜ Daily Ceta ◞ 🫍@cetaology

Next week is my last week of school b4 summer starts! I’ll be able to properly post again hopefully!!! Expect daily ceta haitus to slowly end

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·21h

@8_bit_theorist Thanks for your input, random film student on Twitter. But when it comes to the effect Jaws had on Sharks I think I'm going to put my trust in the countless Marine Biologists who have, combined, spent longer studying Sharks then you've spent being alive👍

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Bowline@8_bit_theorist·22h

@delphindae Because Jaws never had that effect to the proportion people say. Sharks were always hated, especially after 1916. Always being killed, slaughtered for fun and trophies. Jaws did more good. It highlighted them as animals that are scary yet fascinating.

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·1d

@MajorGalah It happens every time a new creature feature horror movie comes out. There's some brief outrage on social media about "demonisation" and then the movie comes out and it has no lasting impact. Rinse and repeat for each new release.

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MajorGalah@MajorGalah·1d

@delphindae It's weird because even in the trailer it's shown as not trying to go after the diver at all, a squid pulls him in, i don't get why people are so upset over it.

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·1d

@anthro_andrew Like. I think there should be some level of care taken to not overly demonise an animal if you're making a creature feature horror movie. But the idea that it just flat out cannot be done at all without catastrophic effects on the animal it features is just absurd.

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Master Of Weird Little Guys 🐬@anthro_andrew·1d

@delphindae THANK YOU

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·1d

@MajorGalah Exactly. Not to mention that from my understanding of Whalefall (granted the novel, not the film) the Whale itself isn't the antagonist. The antagonist is the environment, which just so happens to be its stomach. Versus Jaws where the Shark is an actively malicious antagonist.

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MajorGalah@MajorGalah·1d

@delphindae The thing with jaws is it heavily exaggerated something that does actually happen, people aren't seeing cachalots eating people in the news like they are with sharks.

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·1d

People should be focusing this concern on social media. These days viral Tiktoks and big creators can (and do) cause more damage to the public perception of species than movies do. The modern demonisation of orcas and dolphins was pushed entirely by social media, not movies.

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·1d

Jaws was about a genuinely dangerous animal which it portrayed as almost cartoonishly evil. It predated social media in a time when people knew next to nothing about nature, and it became the highest grossing film of all time. The Jaws Effect simply cannot be replicated today.

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·1d

This one's getting a lot of attention from Paleo people. I figure most of you aren't in the Brisbane area, so if you want to see more here's a really good walkthrough of the museum, with the Dinosaurs Unearthed exhibit from 9:20 to 26:30 youtube.com/watch?v=iv-FVx…

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·1d

I think one of my favourite parts of Dinosaurs Unearthed at Queensland Museum is this little display of four undescribed species from the Paleogene. It's just such a fun and creative way to display fossil material alongside a life reconstruction in a way that feels cohesive.

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EDGE Central@NatSciChannel·2d

🚨NEW STUDY DROP🚨 New toothed whale named, Pterocetus diamantinae, based on partial skull from a massive active multi-million-year-old whale fall necropolis on the bottom of the Indian ocean. ~500 fossil whales, 5 extant communities. 🎨: @JoschuaKnuppe (P. benguelae pictured)

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·1d

Probably not helped by the fact that this big Saltie skull isn't too far from her. I can definitely see how a bunch of 10 year olds made that connection, both being generally triangular shaped and flat with big pointy teeth.

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·1d

And on the topic of Cetaceans. It's my second time seeing this big girl and she was no less awe-inspiring. It can be easy for me to forget how unrecognisable Ceta skulls are to the average person, but one of the groups of school kids there today were adamant she was a crocodile.

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Amity 🦎🐳@delphindae·1d

Made sure to get a side-on photo of the Blainville's Beaked Whale bull at Queensland Museum Kurilpa because I love how the harsh lighting they used casts a perfect shadow of him on the wall.

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