Sharks can be formidable predators, but it is worthy of them, because many species fall into a state similar to a state of paralysis. Livescience.com information portal speakWhy sharks are susceptible to paralysis.
In the process of paralysis, sharks become less reactive to external stimuli, and its vascular decline and blood pressure. The animal is also relieved – reducing sensitivity to pain. Among species that are susceptible to paralysis, such as white sharks, lemon sharks and sand sharks, this condition can be caused by changing animals or applying stimulation into dullness, where there is a lot of receptors.
The paralysis helps scientists studying sharks safely, without causing them to be excessive. But they are not able to develop this evolutionary mechanism for everyone – what is its goal?
There are some theories that explain the nature and purpose of paralysis. Scientific works in 2023, published in the Journal of Environmental Biology of Fish, believes that numbness can be a tool to protect themselves, marital rituals or protect against sensory overload. As other animals can pretend to die: for example, the children of dragonfly and herbal frogs thus avoid mating with partners.
But not all experts believe that paralysis is an effective protection method for sharks, because most of the predators hunt them without paying attention to the ability to move or motion of prey. Even in some cases, paralysis put sharks at risk. It is not useless when assassin whales learned how to turn sharks with force to enjoy their liver.
Sharks also come to Tony during the mating process. Therefore, the males of sand sharks turn female, but this does not explain why the phenomenon occurs, because the males are also susceptible to paralysis.
Research in 2025, published in fishing and fishery biology assessments, offered that numbness of tonic has no goals-nothing more than evolutionaryism. Some types of sharks and slopes over time, regardless of each other, loss of paralysis. And many species have lost this feature that probably lost it for important reasons. Typically, small coral sharks spend a lot of time in shallow water and looking for food in a narrow space where you can easily get stuck. If you are numb somewhere in the wild area of the coral, the animal may die.
