Human infested cities. Cat infested cafés. Cattle infested farms.

I'm taking this far too seriously for a meme, but I already looked it up out of curiosity so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/infest

Interestingly (at least to me) it looks like it's related to "manifest'.

Actually marinas like the one pictured or "canal estates" often create environments that become "infested" with pests and predators. Some of which for example contain bull sharks in plague proportions. Yes sharks live in the ocean but anyone living next to a canal teaming with them would conclude that there is an "investation".

Bull sharks are unique in that they can somehow retain salt from ocean / salt / brackish water which allows them to operate in fresh water. They're also more aggressive than other species, or perhaps just more likely to grab at movement in murky river water.

I remember watching a documentary suggesting that bull shark attacks might have been the inspiration for the Jaws series, after a spate of attacks in estuaries in the US in the years prior.

Jeremy Wade on River Monsters TV series also had an episode about them.

We also kill millions of sharks per year, while they're responsible for maybe 10 human deaths per year (worldwide).

This is why festivals are called that all teeming with wretched humans and their various parasites

Eh, we see lots of people infested places and they can also live there. The two things can both be true. (Granted the number of sharks needed for this title is a bit low).

Isn't that usually how infestations work though?

then what does ever infest anything

On a related note, the “Cities” episode of Planet Earth is an interesting one. Human cities are the fastest growing ecosystem on Earth, so why wouldn’t our fellow planetary inhabitants want to take our shit when we’ve been taking theirs?

infest verb in·​fest in-ˈfest infested; infesting; infests Synonyms of infest transitive verb

1 : to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner shark-infested waters

2 : to live in or on as a parasite

Bro, the way I'm infesting my pants right now...

Not like this Palestinian infested west bank!

Shark housing waters.
En-sharked waters.
Shark-able waters.
Bity waters.

To be fair, humans infest the land.

I will upvote sailing content in all its forms! That's a Sunfish btw

I mean... that applies pretty much any type of infestation.

The bed bugs live there too, for generations.

If a particular section of water has a much higher density of sharks than usual, that fits the definition of "infested"

God damn right!