How can I prove to my brother that sharks cannot come on land?

Question

My little brother is five years old. He is convinced that sharks can come on land and walk around. No matter how many times I've told him this is not possible, he doesn't believe me. How can I prove to him that sharks only live in the ocean and cannot walk?

Answer 1

You don't need to if he really believe that sharks can come on land.

Answer 2

They have no feet.  They have no bones at all, let alone in their feet to support them on land.  They can ONLY breathe water with their gills, therefore, since they have no lungs they cannot breathe out of water.

  They do NOT go around attacking people like in the movies.  They are NOT very smart and can therefore not reason or seek revenge.  People are only attacked by accident.

Sharks are very necessary to the health of our oceans.

Answer 3

Take him to he beach, or a lake, or fishing. Or show him Jaws and ask him if the sharks on there attacked anyone on land... okay mebbe thats not the best method lol.

OR

Take him to an aquarium that has sharks or something along that line and have someone explain that to him there, or it may just dawn on him that they can't after being in awe looking through the glass at them.

Answer 4

cut urself or cover urself w/someone's blood, and swim in the water for a bit, then walk on land.

See what happens, the shark will either get u or u will convince ur brother

the issue will be resolved one way or the other for sure

N

Answer 5

Show him a picture and point out the lack of legs.  However, be prepared for him to cleverly mention snakes and worms.  Then you tell him: "That's true, but they're long and wriggly and that lets them move by wriggling.  Look at the shark.  It ain't like that in shape."

Answer 6

show him a picture and explain that sharks have no legs and therefore cannot walk on land.

Answer 7

Don't let him watch any more CARTOONS.

Answer 8

If I were you Id use it to my advantage and scare the c**p outta him.

Answer 9

Buy a goldfish, cheap.  Take it home and take it out of the water and see if walks on land or not..

Answer 10

I really like the goldfish idea. ;-p

The idea of taking him to an aquarium and having him talk to someone is a great idea as well.

Shark are fish. "Like other fish, sharks extract oxygen from seawater as it passes over their gills." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark

You said "...that sharks only live in the ocean..." Sorry, but The Bull shark has been known to travel up rivers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_sharks...

The only fish I know of that come onto land are Grunion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunion

Mudskippers are also fish that live on land. The use their fins to "walk" on land

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudskipper

Amphibious fish

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphibious_...

Landshark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landshark

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/saturd...

Epaulette shark

Epaulette sharks are best known for their ability to walk on their fins. The shark does not venture onto land; it walks on the ocean floor. (wiki/Landshark)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epaulette_s...

Answer 11

Sharks have NO BONES in their entire body and they have NO SHELL over their body. In order to walk on land something has to have either bones inside its legs like we do (sharks have NO LEGS) or a shell covering the outside of its legs to support its weight in air like insects to (sharks have NO LEGS). So if a shark is taken out of the water it has NO LEGS and it has NO BONES so its weight crushes itself like dumping a jar of jelly out on a plate. The water was holding it up before just like water holds him up in a pool except his bones weigh him down. Also, sharks have NO LUNGS to breath air so it dies from having no water to breathe just like he has no gills to breathe water so he would die from having no air to breathe. So if he had no bones in his feet he couldn't walk, and if he had no legs he could not walk, and since the shark has no bones AND no legs it REALLY can't walk on land.

Answer 12

give him the definition of a fin. Ask him if giraffes can swim or just let him grow up wrong. I remember getting soo mad at my younger brother for teasing me on the same issue and I learned to let it go. He changed. Go to a zoo