I live about 20 - 30 minutes from this golf course and recently found out about this and it's pretty amazing. The gold coast up into southern Moreton bay is one huge interconnected and we'll sheltered estuary and river system, dotted with lots of islands that I think would be the perfect nursery for many species of shark, but the rivers are definitely dominated by bull sharks. Logan river is notorious for them and a well known bull shark fishing location. I've seen enough of them to say that as hot as it is right now I definitely wouldn't go swimming.
All that area is pretty much a sea in a decent flood. It wasn't bad enough with the snakes and spiders so we threw in a few Bull Sharks just for fun lol.
I’m Australian, I guarantee you that those sharks 🦈 got there during a flood. We have countless estuaries, lakes, rivers. During our last big flood. The Brisbane River which is huge and also home to many Bull Sharks, overflowed dramatically. Sharks were spotted in several different locations. Even swimming through flooded streets. There were even sadly 😢 as the floods were subsiding. Trapped Bull Sharks. With nowhere to go now. As you can imagine, attempting to save stranded Bull Sharks is no easy task. So in some cases. There was nothing that could be done. There were just too many. We do our upmost best in Australia to preserve and rescue our marine wildlife including sharks. You would be amazed at some of the water systems where they show up. Even freshwater man made lakes which actually have ( shark barriers) installed. Which are no easy task to get through. The rule here is. Don’t go swimming in freshwater lakes, rivers, or estuaries. Our Bull shark population is HUGE. Although attacks as always are rare.
Im from Florida ,we have sharks and gators ,I pursue snorkel and kayaking ,frequently here .With salty crocs I would not even approach a large mud puddle in Aussie and maybe not even a half full bath tub
Bull sharks and bonnethead sharks are my favorites. Both unique in their own way. Bull sharks being the only capable to thrive in fresh waters (I'm excluding the glyphis genus, cause the're almost extinct, sadly) and bonnetheads being the only omnivorous sharks out there. They're both so fascinating. Could you make a video on bonnetheads, please?
@@carolluscombe7499 well, aside from the genus glyphis, I don”t know any other species that could actually thrive in pure fresh waters. Could you tell me the other species?
@@carolluscombe7499 well, ok, they still are pretty rare. I really want to know the other species that could thrive in fresh waters. Cause I know that some of the requiem sharks, like the lemon sharks for instance, can tolerate low salinity water for some time, like in estuaries, but they don't actually live in fresh water.
@@joaomarcosjunqueira4965 Not completely fresh water but Smooth Hounds, can be found in the Thames at London. Great whites are known to swim up rivers too.
@@fluffyyoteYep we have lots of pet bull sharks on the Gold coast. Thats why we dont put chlorine in our swimming pools, .,.. so our pet sharks dont end up with thyroid problems!
I heard about this story a while ago. It always reminds me of the couple of reported sightings of bulls as far up the Mississippi as St. Louis, where I live. It makes me wonder how many really habitually hang out in the New Orleans delta that we don’t know about. The golf course story is so cool. It makes me angry that anyone would fish for those bull sharks. I hope they did get out with the more recent flooding.
I've already made my mind up that i wouldn't even get in a bathtub in Australia or Florida. It seems like for every "no way there's one in there" there's a documented case of one in fact being in there.
17 years. That's truly an amazing species. I knew they could live for months, but years in fresh water... In the US there were stories of bull sharks swimming from the Gulf of Mexico all the way up to the state of Mississippi.
I live on the Gold Coast in Australia 🇦🇺 and in the many residential areas with canals that have locks on them have bull sharks in them, and occasionally Sea World comes and removes or relocates them out to sea when residents start to complain about them
I live here on the Goldcoast where this story takes place. I can tell you almost every lake/canal has bull sharks, there are absolutely loads of them in almost every body of water around here! Also it isn’t farfetched to think that people catch and release them into strange systems. I’ve definitely heard of people doing this here for a laugh.
We have some family friends who live near Robina who had their daughters swimming in a canal a few years back. They were not smart to do so as there had been a bull stalking a dog that was briefly in the water not far from them but had got out of the water. They didn't even know the shark was near them until someone told them to walk on water and get out.
Attacks are extremely rare, and not often fatal. Also the Gold Coast has some of the best beaches on the planet, so not many people swin in fresh ponds and lakes as much as the ocean/river systems with sharks in them anyway. The Gold Coast is also a subtropical area, that inhabits almost every species of shark in Australia. Sharks are just another part of life here. @@Lily_of_the_Forest
@@Lily_of_the_Forest sort of. But nearly impossible to prove, it would be like proving you put a wolf somewhere, they go where they please and they are everywhere
@@Lily_of_the_Forest you don't go swimming in rivers, creeks and canals in oz. Well maybe in the mountains around nimbin but lowland floodplains, nope. There are other things besides sharks.
I did see a program onThe Weather Channel that included a story about these Sharks, so yes, I've heard of it, but your story is a little more in depth. I enjoyed this. Thank you!
There are small bull sharks in my local land locked creek. Yes we are near the Brisbane river and have had several big floods. A local lady had to rescue her dachshund from about 5 of them!
Another lovely video on a great subject! Bulls in freshwater is such a fun topic - hundreds of miles up the Mississippi, 2500 miles up the Amazon in PERU, Lake Nicaragua, the Zambezi, the Gold Coast...and the occasional golf course 😂.
A golf course with sharks in the lake? Sounds like somewhere a Bond villain would have meetings. He just orders his henchmen to throw anyone he doesn't like into the lake and moves onto the next hole.
Super video Kris, I never appreciated those Bulls lived there for 17 years. I remember the news breaking, it was pretty amazing at the time. Thanks #SharkBytes 🏴🦈
Most waterways around Brisbane and the two major areas just north (Sunshine Coast) and south (Gold Coast) are well known to have bull sharks in the inland waterways, rivers, creeks, canals, and many have man made waterways that are also home to them.
Bull sharks are very interesting indeed. I have heard than one bull shark was cited at Iquitos on the Amazon river... That makes 5000 kms from the atlantic ocean... Pretty impressive... Maybe we'll find some bull sharks in the Titicaca lake one day ? I have my doubts though...
I love bull sharks! And I of course love DNA but since I don't work in lab anymore, I hadn't heard of eDNA. That is fascinating and I'm searching research papers now. Thanks for another great episode.
This is the first I've heard of it myself as well, although my education is in computer science so I wouldn't have heard of it in the first place. Having not looked it up yet, I'm guessing it's based on animal waste and decomposition. It sounds both extremely precise and extremely expensive, but cool nonetheless
@@ronf-kd2qv I worked with genetics linking diseases to family lines. But it has been a minute. I developed Lupus and had to retire way early. All DNA was so expensive in my day.
eDNA is probably the most groundbreaking revolution in biology perhaps since we finished mapping the human genome. It opens up worlds of possibilities for understanding biology all the way to de-extinction of animals with well preserved genetics. It has completely flipped how we study life on its head (in a really good way!)
What a cool story. I hope Australian shark scientists had the opportunity to study what was basically a captive shark population. Speaking of, has anyone tried keeping bull sharks in an aquarium?
Hey sharkbytes! check out a spot called Flamingo, Florida. I just came back from a shark fishing trip there where we fished the fresh water esturies and river dumping into the Florida Bay and it was non stop sharks in brackish/fresh water. Absolutely insane. Its a wild place
Living in Central Florida we lived on a golf course. This was the 60's and there were 0 alligators. Now there is so many you can't count. We used to watch the guys dive in and retrieve the golf balls. I am happy for the conservation but as a native I don't go any closer than 40 feet from any waters edge. I have seen many monster size gators sunning themselves. I had friends that lived in Volusia County on a golf course in the 70's would tell me about sharks in the golf course water. Scary thought! No thank you.
@@freddy7304 ?? Huh wdym? That's what I'm asking? I was just wanting to know what tribe they were from and any interesting info? I know what native means lol...
@@jentaylor2494 that's so weird... Maybe it's because I'm not from the US but I've only ever heard people refer to native Americans as the indigenous population, not people who migrated to the US. Is this like a metric vs imperial thing where the US just has their own definition for things different to the rest of the world?
Such a lucky thing to be able to just occasionally see Bull sharks in your lake lol (I've never seen one irl and I half want to half don't--I would prefer to see them if I was not also in the water)
I remember hearing about this in the early 00's and was absolutely fascinated by it. Shame they aren't there anymore, but if it happend once it could happen again...
@@factchecker472 Yea he said if it’s Sharks it’s not Freshwater which is BS. Yes a lot of times it’s marshes etc with a mix of the two waters here in SoFLo where we’ll see them, but we have had them in strictly freshwater in couple of golf courses one of which is no where near the ocean which still doesn’t necessarily mean there isn’t traces of salt. I mean it’s Florida for cryn out loud but my old lady is a Marine Scientist also like Christian and she said they most definitely can survive in years of Fresh Water thanks to scientists knowing this story that Christian shared. Some Clown had to of caught them and threw them in the one pond here, but yep cool stories. Glad Christian made this. I like Hal and his channel but he does come across argumentative at times like a know it all haha but I’m also bustn balls. He’s taking on TH-cam in court what’s that tell ya? Haha good luck to him though. His channel next to Christian’s is my favorite.🤙🦈
@@shredhead4604 Well, each to their own I guess. Kristian's channel is scientific, so I'd always believe him over some rando. Bull sharks have been found way up the Amazon, Ganges, Tigris rivers and even Lake Nicaragua. I've even seen some footage of them swimming down streets after flooding.
Great video as always, Kris. I remember reading years ago about bull sharks in Lake Nicaragua and also, the Ganges river too. Bull sharks are incredible.
@@SHARKBYTES ok 😊, sorry my English is not so perfekt because I am from Germany, I like your Videos so much and I also like sharks and I really like to exchange ideas on the topic of sharks and about your Videos 😊🙏
E - DNA is fascinating, esp scooping out water & being able to identify presence of marine species. Amazing! I have seen videos of bullsharks in fresh water - there's one of a lad jumping off a gate/railing into fresh water & his friend filming him then madly screaming "shark, get out!" Imagine that discovery! 😂
Yeah I have seen this golf course before on tv. I think it might of been on River Monsters with Jeremy Wade . I don’t know if it was the one about the Bull Sharks or the one about Glyphis Sharks . And he caught baby Bull Shark when he was trying to catch a Saw Fish if you haven’t seen them give them a watch . He only does cat catch and release it’s why I like watching him .
The edna suggestion is an interesting one, but I think most sequencing can't distinguish between dead and alive - just present/absent. So if there are dead sharks on the bottom of the lake, you'd still get a positive hit in such a small ecosystem.
This was an interesting topic Kris. 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈 I saw something about this years ago. I didn't know they were there for 17 years. If someones ball or club ended up in the lake, they're probably not getting that back. It'd be cool if there were sharks in the lake again after the most recent flood and it looks like this happy accident really had some major benefits to shark science. One question Kris, do you know what other golf course has sharks? Port Clovis's Golden Shores. From Man Eater. 🤣
I love my fahlo bracelets. We got 1 for our kids for Christmas. I cant wait for them to track their animals. Its so interesting the bull sharks were able to live in the lake. Such amazing sharks.
Hey, Kris! I recently watched a documentary about a golf course in Florida with a story just like that but more recent. i don't remember the details, but have you heard of it?
This is so intriguing to me. So i wonder, was the water brackish then, that's incredible that a salt-water ocean fish adapted for 17 years. Maybe it'd be like us adapting to living in a place where the gases were different strengths ie more methane less oxygen, etc. Nature's so cool and mysterious 😊😊
I'm an American who's visited Australia before and would love to go back. As someone who loves sharks and golf it just gives me a reason to go back! I'm also curious about the lifespan of bull sharks. Is 17 years close to their natural lifespan?
I was curious about that too, and am seeing *wildly* varying figures from different sources. Some say 12-18 years, while others say that's when they become reproductively active! What *is* generally agreed is that a captive bull shark was recorded as living to 32, but that perhaps being an outlier rather than the norm; Okinawa's aquarium also claims to have one that's reached over 40. Usually captive sharks live much shorter lives than wild ones, but it may be the other way around with bull sharks, if the conditions are right.
@@nickporter4279 I would think the average lifespan for captive sharks is longer than wild sharks because they are in environments that minimize natural hazards like predators, disease, water conditions, etc. I think living in a pond is probably sub optimal for a shark so I would think 17 years is pretty close to the expected lifespan. I'm not a shark biologist so I could be way off but that's my thought process
I’d never heard about this before, but I saw something similar in an episode of River Monsters several years ago. Jeremy Wade was investigating attacks in a river system in Australia, and there was a short segment where he talked to a guy whose racehorse was almost killed by a shark. The thing was, it was up river from a dam, so the shark in the river that went after the horse (or it’s parents) had to have been stranded up river of the dam by flooding a few decades before (I don’t remember exactly when, 70s I think, but it’s been years since I watched it so don’t quote me on that). I know that TV show was super overdramatic, but I double checked and there were news articles about the attack from March 2005
Probably wouldn't bother trying to retrieve any slices into the lake then. Super strange but very entertaining story. I've heard that occasionally bull sharks sometimes swim right up inland in rivers or lakes but wonder why. Do they get lost? I've seen rabbits, hares, deer, monkeys, snakes, mongooses, scorpions and monitor lizards on golf courses - even a wild boar on one outing but gators or crocs would really freak me out.
am interested to know what other possible species of shark could have attacked the guy upriver from the golf course? I wouldn't have thought there'd be any doubt it was a bull..?
How well studied are the lake nicaragua bull sharks? I know they have access to the Gulf, but does anyone know how long they stay within the lake and how frequently they travel back to the Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean sea? Seems like a big enough lake that it could support a population of permanent resident sharks.
Bull sharks in the river systems near Brisbane (famously the Brisbane River itself) are well known - the canals on the Gold Coast are also notorious for harbouring bull sharks
It's highly likely that the floods moved most of them along, they do tell us not go into flood water on the coast as sharks are one major risk. That all said, it's a shame in one sense but good in another sense if they were washed out. In one way, they are free and, in another way, the Australian factor has been taken with it. Most people I think embraced it as opposed to feared it.
So, technically they could just move to rivers and spread around the globe. :D I'm imagining Danube having sharks. We have some big fish in these waters, but not sure if the temperature would be okay for them during winter times.
Thats just up the road from me and it was during a flood that they washed in there. We have all known about it for years. As for how they survived the golfers fed the things. As far as I know they are still there and you do not go in after your golf balls.
Another Awesome video. I wish I had played a couple of rounds there and seen them If Tiger Woods played that course, fell in and was eaten by one would that make it a tiger shark 🤔 Or If it ate Lucas Glover would it be Carcharhinus Lucas???
I was interested to hear that there would not be enough nutrition from chicken and pork to sustain a shark. Is that due to the spadoric feeding, or the different fatty acids (or another reason)?
I grew up 15 minutes away from this golf course and knew about the sharks. The recent flooding and flooding were some of the biggest floods we have had and I’d put money on them being bulls back in the lake
I live in Florida so we have alligators, pythons, boas, iguanas, birds, sharks, morons in planes, meth heads...just being meth heads. There was a golf course in Ft.Luaderdale or Miami I believe that had sharks around the gold course, but it was near a saltwater bay, not fresh water. However, with the floding we get here sometimes with hurricanes a d just storms in general, it wouldn't shock me. The gators and them could fight, but the meth heads woukd probably attack both species.
I live about 20 - 30 minutes from this golf course and recently found out about this and it's pretty amazing. The gold coast up into southern Moreton bay is one huge interconnected and we'll sheltered estuary and river system, dotted with lots of islands that I think would be the perfect nursery for many species of shark, but the rivers are definitely dominated by bull sharks. Logan river is notorious for them and a well known bull shark fishing location. I've seen enough of them to say that as hot as it is right now I definitely wouldn't go swimming.
All that area is pretty much a sea in a decent flood. It wasn't bad enough with the snakes and spiders so we threw in a few Bull Sharks just for fun lol.
Killer sharks in the water hazard of an Australian golf course is the least surprising thing I've ever heard.
Funniest thing I read today.
It truly brings that sense of "hazard"
It's pretty cool they can live in an environment like that for 17 years and seemed to be decently healthy for most of it. Good job sharks!
700 million years can do that for species.
Bullsharks in a golf course lake might be the most Australian thing I have ever heared of
just thought "ofcourse its fukin australia"
I'm surprised the SyFy channel didn't make a movie out of this with sharks attacking golfers during a tournament!
I've seen a movie called Shark Lake, starring Dolph Lundgren. I don't know if it was made by SyFy, but the movie already exists haha
Happy Gills, more thrills
I’m Australian, I guarantee you that those sharks 🦈 got there during a flood. We have countless estuaries, lakes, rivers. During our last big flood. The Brisbane River which is huge and also home to many Bull Sharks, overflowed dramatically. Sharks were spotted in several different locations. Even swimming through flooded streets. There were even sadly 😢 as the floods were subsiding. Trapped Bull Sharks. With nowhere to go now. As you can imagine, attempting to save stranded Bull Sharks is no easy task. So in some cases. There was nothing that could be done. There were just too many. We do our upmost best in Australia to preserve and rescue our marine wildlife including sharks. You would be amazed at some of the water systems where they show up. Even freshwater man made lakes which actually have ( shark barriers) installed. Which are no easy task to get through. The rule here is. Don’t go swimming in freshwater lakes, rivers, or estuaries. Our Bull shark population is HUGE. Although attacks as always are rare.
Im from Florida ,we have sharks and gators ,I pursue snorkel and kayaking ,frequently here .With salty crocs I would not even approach a large mud puddle in Aussie and maybe not even a half full bath tub
@@edstringer1138yeah gators are way more chill then a salty
Like something out of jumanji 😅
Bull sharks and bonnethead sharks are my favorites. Both unique in their own way. Bull sharks being the only capable to thrive in fresh waters (I'm excluding the glyphis genus, cause the're almost extinct, sadly) and bonnetheads being the only omnivorous sharks out there. They're both so fascinating. Could you make a video on bonnetheads, please?
Bull sharks aren't the only shark to tolerate / live in fresh water
@@carolluscombe7499 well, aside from the genus glyphis, I don”t know any other species that could actually thrive in pure fresh waters. Could you tell me the other species?
@@joaomarcosjunqueira4965 not all glyphis genus sharks are critically endangered.
Speartooth sharks are 'vulnerable'
@@carolluscombe7499 well, ok, they still are pretty rare. I really want to know the other species that could thrive in fresh waters. Cause I know that some of the requiem sharks, like the lemon sharks for instance, can tolerate low salinity water for some time, like in estuaries, but they don't actually live in fresh water.
@@joaomarcosjunqueira4965 Not completely fresh water but Smooth Hounds, can be found in the Thames at London. Great whites are known to swim up rivers too.
My son will be delighted when I tell him there is a new bull shark video from Shark Bytes
Bull sharks are awesome!
Oh my gosh, I’m tired so I first read this as “my shark will be delighted” and I laughed out loud. 😂
@@fluffyyote 🤣
@@SHARKBYTES did you know sharks have been around longer than the rings of Saturn
@@fluffyyoteYep we have lots of pet bull sharks on the Gold coast.
Thats why we dont put chlorine in our swimming pools, .,.. so our pet sharks dont end up with thyroid problems!
I heard about this story a while ago. It always reminds me of the couple of reported sightings of bulls as far up the Mississippi as St. Louis, where I live. It makes me wonder how many really habitually hang out in the New Orleans delta that we don’t know about. The golf course story is so cool. It makes me angry that anyone would fish for those bull sharks. I hope they did get out with the more recent flooding.
I've already made my mind up that i wouldn't even get in a bathtub in Australia or Florida.
It seems like for every "no way there's one in there" there's a documented case of one in fact being in there.
17 years. That's truly an amazing species.
I knew they could live for months, but years in fresh water...
In the US there were stories of bull sharks swimming from the Gulf of Mexico all the way up to the state of Mississippi.
I live on the Gold Coast in Australia 🇦🇺 and in the many residential areas with canals that have locks on them have bull sharks in them, and occasionally Sea World comes and removes or relocates them out to sea when residents start to complain about them
I live here on the Goldcoast where this story takes place. I can tell you almost every lake/canal has bull sharks, there are absolutely loads of them in almost every body of water around here!
Also it isn’t farfetched to think that people catch and release them into strange systems. I’ve definitely heard of people doing this here for a laugh.
We have some family friends who live near Robina who had their daughters swimming in a canal a few years back. They were not smart to do so as there had been a bull stalking a dog that was briefly in the water not far from them but had got out of the water. They didn't even know the shark was near them until someone told them to walk on water and get out.
Releasing them in unexpected areas where people might swim is murder!
Attacks are extremely rare, and not often fatal. Also the Gold Coast has some of the best beaches on the planet, so not many people swin in fresh ponds and lakes as much as the ocean/river systems with sharks in them anyway. The Gold Coast is also a subtropical area, that inhabits almost every species of shark in Australia. Sharks are just another part of life here. @@Lily_of_the_Forest
@@Lily_of_the_Forest sort of. But nearly impossible to prove, it would be like proving you put a wolf somewhere, they go where they please and they are everywhere
@@Lily_of_the_Forest you don't go swimming in rivers, creeks and canals in oz. Well maybe in the mountains around nimbin but lowland floodplains, nope. There are other things besides sharks.
You should really be on Shark Week you would be awesome and we could actually learn something!!!
I did see a program onThe Weather Channel that included a story about these Sharks, so yes, I've heard of it, but your story is a little more in depth. I enjoyed this. Thank you!
There are small bull sharks in my local land locked creek. Yes we are near the Brisbane river and have had several big floods. A local lady had to rescue her dachshund from about 5 of them!
Great story! Love your content, my friend! Thank you very much!
A vudeo about the bull sharks of Lake Nicaragua would be very cool.
Another lovely video on a great subject! Bulls in freshwater is such a fun topic - hundreds of miles up the Mississippi, 2500 miles up the Amazon in PERU, Lake Nicaragua, the Zambezi, the Gold Coast...and the occasional golf course 😂.
A golf course with sharks in the lake? Sounds like somewhere a Bond villain would have meetings. He just orders his henchmen to throw anyone he doesn't like into the lake and moves onto the next hole.
Thanks for covering this. I was so curious as to how they would manage in a lake. Didn't know they disappeared. Great vid!
Super video Kris, I never appreciated those Bulls lived there for 17 years. I remember the news breaking, it was pretty amazing at the time. Thanks #SharkBytes 🏴🦈
Most waterways around Brisbane and the two major areas just north (Sunshine Coast) and south (Gold Coast) are well known to have bull sharks in the inland waterways, rivers, creeks, canals, and many have man made waterways that are also home to them.
Been many attacks in the Gold coast
Thanks for covering this. I’d heard about this story, but not in so much detail. Very interesting, and the water DNA testing info was is so cool!
Hi! I love your content about the sharks. It helps me fall asleep to listen to your voice and informations about the animals ❤
Gives "water hazard" a whole new meaning
Bull sharks are very interesting indeed. I have heard than one bull shark was cited at Iquitos on the Amazon river... That makes 5000 kms from the atlantic ocean... Pretty impressive... Maybe we'll find some bull sharks in the Titicaca lake one day ? I have my doubts though...
Not in Lake Titicaca, it doesn't have a connection to the ocean, but they live in Lake Nicaragua.
@@eljanrimsa5843 Indeed 😉
I honestly didn’t know bull sharks could survive in freshwater. Nice video.
This is the first time I ever heard about these golf course sharks. It’s fascinating. Thanks for telling us 😊
Chef Ramsey Must Love your Bloody Shark Bytes. Its Bloody Funny. Have a good day old chap
I read the title of the video and automatically knew it was Australia. I swear bull sharks are everywhere here 😂
Your continent is the absolute worst 😂
I love bull sharks! And I of course love DNA but since I don't work in lab anymore, I hadn't heard of eDNA. That is fascinating and I'm searching research papers now. Thanks for another great episode.
This is the first I've heard of it myself as well, although my education is in computer science so I wouldn't have heard of it in the first place. Having not looked it up yet, I'm guessing it's based on animal waste and decomposition. It sounds both extremely precise and extremely expensive, but cool nonetheless
@@ronf-kd2qv I worked with genetics linking diseases to family lines. But it has been a minute. I developed Lupus and had to retire way early. All DNA was so expensive in my day.
It’s growing massively in the marine biology research industry!
eDNA is probably the most groundbreaking revolution in biology perhaps since we finished mapping the human genome. It opens up worlds of possibilities for understanding biology all the way to de-extinction of animals with well preserved genetics. It has completely flipped how we study life on its head (in a really good way!)
Shark attack fatal in Bahamas today, paddle boarder. That’s crazy
What a cool story. I hope Australian shark scientists had the opportunity to study what was basically a captive shark population. Speaking of, has anyone tried keeping bull sharks in an aquarium?
Great information. I can’t remember any background information on how they arrived or left.
Hey sharkbytes! check out a spot called Flamingo, Florida. I just came back from a shark fishing trip there where we fished the fresh water esturies and river dumping into the Florida Bay and it was non stop sharks in brackish/fresh water. Absolutely insane. Its a wild place
I’ll look into this 😁
Living in Central Florida we lived on a golf course. This was the 60's and there were 0 alligators. Now there is so many you can't count. We used to watch the guys dive in and retrieve the golf balls. I am happy for the conservation but as a native I don't go any closer than 40 feet from any waters edge. I have seen many monster size gators sunning themselves. I had friends that lived in Volusia County on a golf course in the 70's would tell me about sharks in the golf course water. Scary thought! No thank you.
oh nice, you're native? What tribe are you from? Do you know any stories involving alligators? or not so much about alligators?
@@kezia8027 If you're born somewhere, you are native to that place.
@@freddy7304 ?? Huh wdym? That's what I'm asking? I was just wanting to know what tribe they were from and any interesting info? I know what native means lol...
@@kezia8027native as in native to the area, not native as in from a native tribe. The word has two meanings
@@jentaylor2494 that's so weird... Maybe it's because I'm not from the US but I've only ever heard people refer to native Americans as the indigenous population, not people who migrated to the US.
Is this like a metric vs imperial thing where the US just has their own definition for things different to the rest of the world?
Wow! EDNA is an amazing advancement to understanding animals in the environment.
Fascinating, great work, thanks!
The original 'JAWS' movie is based on what was believed to be a bull shark attack miles inland on the East Coast of the USA.
Such a lucky thing to be able to just occasionally see Bull sharks in your lake lol (I've never seen one irl and I half want to half don't--I would prefer to see them if I was not also in the water)
I grew up near this golf course. At school there were alot of legends about it.
Really amazing and very interesting. Thanks
I remember hearing about this in the early 00's and was absolutely fascinated by it. Shame they aren't there anymore, but if it happend once it could happen again...
You're so cool man, thanks for sharing information and stories about these beautiful animals
Thanks for watching!!
@@SHARKBYTES my pleasure
My theory. After waiting 17 years for a golfer to fall in the lake, they ran out of patience and headed to the ocean to go gnaw on some surfers. ☠️
Too cool you made this Christian, was just talkn about this with Hal ha!🤘🦈🤘
That guy's a grifter - certainly no authority on sharks or attacks
@@factchecker472 Yea he said if it’s Sharks it’s not Freshwater which is BS. Yes a lot of times it’s marshes etc with a mix of the two waters here in SoFLo where we’ll see them, but we have had them in strictly freshwater in couple of golf courses one of which is no where near the ocean which still doesn’t necessarily mean there isn’t traces of salt. I mean it’s Florida for cryn out loud but my old lady is a Marine Scientist also like Christian and she said they most definitely can survive in years of Fresh Water thanks to scientists knowing this story that Christian shared. Some Clown had to of caught them and threw them in the one pond here, but yep cool stories. Glad Christian made this. I like Hal and his channel but he does come across argumentative at times like a know it all haha but I’m also bustn balls. He’s taking on TH-cam in court what’s that tell ya? Haha good luck to him though. His channel next to Christian’s is my favorite.🤙🦈
@@shredhead4604 Well, each to their own I guess. Kristian's channel is scientific, so I'd always believe him over some rando. Bull sharks have been found way up the Amazon, Ganges, Tigris rivers and even Lake Nicaragua. I've even seen some footage of them swimming down streets after flooding.
That fella's an ignorant so-and-so if ever there was one
@@Footielad560 Agree - a very silly channel that one
Excellent, brother - hope they got out of the lake ok
I prefer bull sharks over any other animals ona gold course. At least they can't attack you on land. Thank you for the video.
Could end up being expensive for golfers that aren't so good, not going to risk retrieving balls haha.
As always, your videos are incredibly informative and engaging! 🦈
Just a question. Is there no research on lake Nicaragua and the bill sharks there??
Wow, this is awesome that Bulls could live 17 yrs in lake waters. Scary too!
This video was so fascinating! 😮
Okay, that was super awesome!! Really cool to see the resilience of these animals!
Great video as always, Kris. I remember reading years ago about bull sharks in Lake Nicaragua and also, the Ganges river too. Bull sharks are incredible.
In Africa they are often called Zambesi Sharks - yet another river.
Thanks a lot of for the new Video 🦈 about bull sharks 🦈🙏👍
They are a real elite tier shark
@@SHARKBYTES ok 😊, sorry my English is not so perfekt because I am from Germany, I like your Videos so much and I also like sharks and I really like to exchange ideas on the topic of sharks and about your Videos 😊🙏
E - DNA is fascinating, esp scooping out water & being able to identify presence of marine species. Amazing! I have seen videos of bullsharks in fresh water - there's one of a lad jumping off a gate/railing into fresh water & his friend filming him then madly screaming "shark, get out!" Imagine that discovery! 😂
Yeah I have seen this golf course before on tv.
I think it might of been on River Monsters with Jeremy Wade .
I don’t know if it was the one about the Bull Sharks or the one about Glyphis Sharks .
And he caught baby Bull Shark when he was trying to catch a Saw Fish if you haven’t seen them give them a watch .
He only does cat catch and release it’s why I like watching him .
In another episode they caught 2 Bull Sharks in an African River (well up it) that were 13' long!
The edna suggestion is an interesting one, but I think most sequencing can't distinguish between dead and alive - just present/absent. So if there are dead sharks on the bottom of the lake, you'd still get a positive hit in such a small ecosystem.
12:00 Now I'm getting flashbacks to my final VCE bio exam earlier this year lmao
This was an interesting topic Kris. 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈
I saw something about this years ago. I didn't know they were there for 17 years. If someones ball or club ended up in the lake, they're probably not getting that back. It'd be cool if there were sharks in the lake again after the most recent flood and it looks like this happy accident really had some major benefits to shark science. One question Kris, do you know what other golf course has sharks?
Port Clovis's Golden Shores. From Man Eater. 🤣
Hahahah I’ve gotta play that some More!
Pretty cool, even with them gone they have provided the course with a good story.
I love my fahlo bracelets. We got 1 for our kids for Christmas. I cant wait for them to track their animals. Its so interesting the bull sharks were able to live in the lake. Such amazing sharks.
I'll be driving on through the outskirts of Brisbane in the next couple of days.
Happy to send you a water sample!
Well done!
Greetings from Colorado. Your brother turned us on to your channel. New Sub.
Hey, Kris! I recently watched a documentary about a golf course in Florida with a story just like that but more recent. i don't remember the details, but have you heard of it?
EDNA , what an incredible bit of science. Science is the best thing that humanity has.
This is so intriguing to me. So i wonder, was the water brackish then, that's incredible that a salt-water ocean fish adapted for 17 years. Maybe it'd be like us adapting to living in a place where the gases were different strengths ie more methane less oxygen, etc. Nature's so cool and mysterious 😊😊
I'm an American who's visited Australia before and would love to go back. As someone who loves sharks and golf it just gives me a reason to go back! I'm also curious about the lifespan of bull sharks. Is 17 years close to their natural lifespan?
I was curious about that too, and am seeing *wildly* varying figures from different sources. Some say 12-18 years, while others say that's when they become reproductively active!
What *is* generally agreed is that a captive bull shark was recorded as living to 32, but that perhaps being an outlier rather than the norm; Okinawa's aquarium also claims to have one that's reached over 40. Usually captive sharks live much shorter lives than wild ones, but it may be the other way around with bull sharks, if the conditions are right.
@@nickporter4279 I would think the average lifespan for captive sharks is longer than wild sharks because they are in environments that minimize natural hazards like predators, disease, water conditions, etc.
I think living in a pond is probably sub optimal for a shark so I would think 17 years is pretty close to the expected lifespan.
I'm not a shark biologist so I could be way off but that's my thought process
I’d never heard about this before, but I saw something similar in an episode of River Monsters several years ago. Jeremy Wade was investigating attacks in a river system in Australia, and there was a short segment where he talked to a guy whose racehorse was almost killed by a shark. The thing was, it was up river from a dam, so the shark in the river that went after the horse (or it’s parents) had to have been stranded up river of the dam by flooding a few decades before (I don’t remember exactly when, 70s I think, but it’s been years since I watched it so don’t quote me on that). I know that TV show was super overdramatic, but I double checked and there were news articles about the attack from March 2005
Probably wouldn't bother trying to retrieve any slices into the lake then. Super strange but very entertaining story. I've heard that occasionally bull sharks sometimes swim right up inland in rivers or lakes but wonder why. Do they get lost?
I've seen rabbits, hares, deer, monkeys, snakes, mongooses, scorpions and monitor lizards on golf courses - even a wild boar on one outing but gators or crocs would really freak me out.
From JoJo and Cora: Merry Christmas, Kristian! We agree new sharks will appear! If they did it then they could do it again. 🦈🎄🎅🤶🧑🎄🌲❤😊
am interested to know what other possible species of shark could have attacked the guy upriver from the golf course? I wouldn't have thought there'd be any doubt it was a bull..?
Q..w the EDNA testing I assume it only picks up recent species dna? How long can dna last in the lake of a species?
Always interesting
How well studied are the lake nicaragua bull sharks? I know they have access to the Gulf, but does anyone know how long they stay within the lake and how frequently they travel back to the Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean sea? Seems like a big enough lake that it could support a population of permanent resident sharks.
I don't think they've been seen there for years
Amazing stuff!
Bull sharks in the river systems near Brisbane (famously the Brisbane River itself) are well known - the canals on the Gold Coast are also notorious for harbouring bull sharks
It's highly likely that the floods moved most of them along, they do tell us not go into flood water on the coast as sharks are one major risk. That all said, it's a shame in one sense but good in another sense if they were washed out. In one way, they are free and, in another way, the Australian factor has been taken with it. Most people I think embraced it as opposed to feared it.
what about lake nicaragua sharks?
I live in australia maybe I should check the golf course out lol
So, technically they could just move to rivers and spread around the globe. :D I'm imagining Danube having sharks. We have some big fish in these waters, but not sure if the temperature would be okay for them during winter times.
Thats just up the road from me and it was during a flood that they washed in there. We have all known about it for years. As for how they survived the golfers fed the things. As far as I know they are still there and you do not go in after your golf balls.
Such a cute boy at 2. Oh the video was great btw 😊
Just putting it out there that I can get a friend to go get the water sample. Do we know how much the testing would cost?
Hello. Good Morning Kris. 🦈🦈
I'm sure I saw on the news some years ago a golf club in Florida had a Bull Shark for the same reasons 😮😮
Another Awesome video. I wish I had played a couple of rounds there and seen them
If Tiger Woods played that course, fell in and was eaten by one would that make it a tiger shark 🤔
Or
If it ate Lucas Glover would it be Carcharhinus Lucas???
I still wouldn't go near the place! Those people standing along that bank, so close to each other and so close to the edge ...........no thanks!
I was interested to hear that there would not be enough nutrition from chicken and pork to sustain a shark. Is that due to the spadoric feeding, or the different fatty acids (or another reason)?
Omg what in the Discovery Channel is going in at hole 3 with the giraffe 🦒
I so hope we find more / new sharks in that lake!@
I grew up 15 minutes away from this golf course and knew about the sharks. The recent flooding and flooding were some of the biggest floods we have had and I’d put money on them being bulls back in the lake
0:14 is that a giraffes head on the ground or a golf bag looks like it could be either
3:32;they are there because an Ox bow lake effect flooded when these nippers were mere whipper snappers!😳
I’m sad if they’re really gone. It was a great opportunity for people to see and increase interest in this amazing species.
Aw sad that they're gone but it's better for them, hopefully at least one made it back out to the river/sea.
I live in Florida so we have alligators, pythons, boas, iguanas, birds, sharks, morons in planes, meth heads...just being meth heads. There was a golf course in Ft.Luaderdale or Miami I believe that had sharks around the gold course, but it was near a saltwater bay, not fresh water. However, with the floding we get here sometimes with hurricanes a d just storms in general, it wouldn't shock me. The gators and them could fight, but the meth heads woukd probably attack both species.
i was in brisbane in 2012 wish i had of checked it out
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