Can a shark bite your leg off?

Answer 1

yes it will. when you see a shark circling underyou, your first thought is: holy $#!%. lets say your boat just capsized and your stranded in the ocean with only a floating peice of wood. you will be scared and you don't know what to do. lets say the shark is curious and DOES bite you in the leg what do you think your gonna feel? depending on how much adrenaline is going through your body, you will feel different amounts of pain.

Answer 2

First, you feel the extremely hard hit of the nose. Once hit by the nose the shark swims several feet away from its target. Once facing its target again, the shark swims full speed toward the prey, opens its mouth, and bites. Once it decides if it wants is prey or not, it swims off, unless it wants it. If you are unlucky enough to be wanted by the shark, the shark will then face you, and repeat the previous step, except with more strength. It then drags you underwater for several minutes, faces your head into its mouth, an bites. It keeps clamping until it knows you are dead. Then bites chunk after chunk of meat and swims off. There are three types of bites by a shark. Predatory, which means it is to get a meal, defense, which is in self defense, and test-biting, which is to see what an object is and if it is safe to eat. Shark bites on humans are three out of four times test-biting. Shark bites are generally rare on humans.

Answer 3

Probably not, at least not physical pain.

Sharks lack the key nociceptors required for the intense sensation of pain.

In addition, behaviour evidence has shown that sharks will continue regular feeding even after being eviscerated.

In other studies that provide evidence that fish do feel pain, sharks are typically excluded.

Answer 4

The only shark that does not bite is the whale shark, which feeds by filtering small animals out of the water. All other sharks will bite anything that seems to be food. Most shark attacks on humans are mistakes on the shark's part. Sharks really don't like the taste of human - if they did, then there would not be so many attacks where people get bitten and escape. Usually, the shark sees something move, and attacks. Sometimes a person floating on the water looks like a seal from underneath, and the shark attacks thinking it is going to have a seal dinner. Then it lets go when it tastes human.

Answer 5

Yes! it hurts. A shark can bite down more than about 30 pounds and That's just The Great White Shark

Answer 6

Yes of course it can! It could bite off anything.

Answer 7

It hurts.