'Oh, to be a shark in love': Aquarium visitors panic after witnessing a leopard shark biting another shark's fin, until staff reveals that it's actually romantic

Haven't you ever heard of a love bite?

Like most little boys, we were obsessed with sharks until the age of 9. The sleek, yet powerful body, the ferocity, and being an apex predator that survived for millions of years without much evolutionary change… what young boy wouldn't choose them as their favorite animal? We vividly remember having a nightmare about being trapped in a shark tank around that age, which instilled a fear of sharks that wasn't present before, and we have been slightly afraid of swimming in the ocean ever since. Until now.

After seeing the video below, you will see sharks in a completely different light. One aquarium visitor captured a would-be horror video of a leopard shark chomping down on the fin of another shark in its tank, where everyone erupted in alarm. That is, until the staff alerted them that it wasn't aggressive at all.

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If this is how sharks flirt with each other, we must have some shark DNA in our ancestry. Everyone knows what a “love bite” is, right? It's when you get so overwhelmed with love that it activates your cuteness aggression and you must chomp down on your partner/boyfriend/girlfriend/situationship's nearest limb. Well, it turns out that sharks originated the love bite, and us humans have merely adopted it.
This kind of biting is not the same as predatory biting, just like you wouldn't love bite your person's arm the same way you would bite into a nice, juicy cheezburger. See what we did there?
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Why the bite, though? Well, if you didn't notice before, sharks don't have hands, and have you ever tried to position yourself in a specific way while floating in water? Yeah, it's not the easiest task. This bite allows the male shark to properly align itself before doing the deed. You know the one we're talking about. The ocean boogie. The seaweed sway. The thump-thump-thump in the coral reef. We could go on, but you get the idea.
While the concept may be foreign to us, sharks have been around since before the dinosaurs and it has been working for them for a long time, so who are we to judge?
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