tonic immobility of the shark!

Tiger shark

Mike was really awesome!! He communicated with sharks by stroking their snouts. The idea was to test the tonic immobility on sharks. I remembered when I stroke my cat's head she would keep still and asked for more. That's what he did to the lemon, reef, tiger and great white sharks. It's incredible the way those sharks would go limp and relax while he patted them.

Reef shark

He would stroke a reef shark and it suddenly went quiet. When he released his hand it quickly moved away from him. The interesting part was that it wanted his touch again. He patted the shark one more time until he could positioned the sharks vertically and it was very still until he let go of the shark.

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Great white shark

Obviously, not all sharks would go in a trance state like that. The female is more responsive than the male. The lemon and reef shark are easier to response than the tiger and great white shark. The great white sharks are more in control than the others since it allowed Mike to swim with it.

lemon shark

Overall, tonic immobility is also another way to understand the shark behavior. It proves that sharks weren’t as vicious as we thought they usually are but there’s a docile side of them too. Hopefully, I could get close to them as well. I can't help it, they're such a fascinating creature!!

Burn Quran??

I personally disagree and dislike with Terry Jone's announcement when he stated that they wanted to have a "Burn Quran Day" as a commemoration with 9/11 incident. That's an absurd way and it can upset the world peace.

9/11 is the day for others to remember the victims of the collapse WTC. Even some of the family members victims disagree with the plan. We as a muslim, we love Jesus Christ too. We believe that he is a man born from his virgin mother, Mary and he is sent to his people to tell them to worship the one and only God. God neither give birth nor being born.

Sometimes, we believe news that we hear and news that we see without searching the depth of its truth. Until now, there is no evidence that the 9/11 was caused by muslim. You can find it in websites yourself to search for the truth. After all, televisions and newspapers aren't our only source of news since a lot of it are just rumours.

Wether we are Muslim, Christian, Buddha or Hindhu; each religion teach us to be good to others. Some of the basic things like you need to respect your parents, love the young ones and help the poor should be applied in our daily life no matter what religion a person is. Some may be atheist yet they still respect their elders.

We can't rely much on the media to help us understand one another religion as almost all of it focus on entertainment. Thus, I personally went to a talk on "Friendly Comparative Religion" (FCR) that discussed about other religions. I hope that I'll be able to know them better when I want to interact with them.

Overall, the issue of burn Quran is not the best way to solve the core problem which is the building of mosque at Ground Zero. It can disrupt the peace that our forefathers had built. We should understand one another in a peaceful way so that we can find the best possible solution to this problem. InsyaAllah.