The Tragic Muse

naturalprairie:

An Australian tour guide has switched over to a fish-free bait pioneering a new form of attractant for great white sharks, heavy metal music.

The tour guide has been taking people out on his boat for years to see and appreciate great whites in their natural habitat off the coast of Australia. For nearly all that time, he’s used thousands of gallons of chum made of dismembered fish parts. That’s all about to change. The guide recently discovered that playing music from heavy-metal bands like AC/DC could attract the sharks without fish chum or meat. The sharks even seem to like it.

The guide places underwater speakers in steel cages. Sharks quickly come to the speakers in a calm state and lovingly rub their noses on the cages. He theorizes that the low frequencies in metal tunes are soothing to the sharks and plans to test his theory by playing some non-metal bands like The White Stripes.

Why does it make so much sense that the world’s most badass animal would listen to metal? 

Oh…my…God. This is so badass.

(via whatareyoureallymyfriendlybeing)