What is a whale shark?

Whale shark is the largest fish in the sea, and from its size one would assume the deadliest. However, whale sharks are generally not interested in biting divers, although the intervention from their tail could hurt divers. They are huge, relatively passive animals that diet on plankton and krill. It was also known that they are relatively ineffective swimmers.

Whale shark can be found in the waters surrounding Thailand, Australia, the Red Sea and around South Africa. Sometimes they are in a smaller number around Baja California and Puerto Rico. The whale shark is usually lonely and little is known about their breeding and reproductive habits.

, however, scientists have sometimes found groups of sharks living in close proximity to each other. This suggests that only some of the whales are lonely. Younger sharks may be a school for better protection.

ichthyologists estimate that the whale sharks can reach a diameter of sixty years and a maximum size of about sixty feet (18.28 m) in length. Their mouths are huge and tooththe. Sometimes they are called heating sharks because they were observed on the bottom of the ocean with the mouth of the wide open filtering of small fish through their 600 teeth.

Although it would be difficult to confuse the whale shark for anything else because of its size, their marking and coloring is still interesting to observe. On the upper body are gray, blue or brown and resist fashion by having horizontal and vertical stripes and cream polka dots on their middle body. This patterning is assumed that the Whale Shark helps from predators.

Whale shark has predators, unfortunately most people who hunted a shark. Many areas now prohibit chasing or capturing a whale shark that help restore the population. The other May sharks feed on young or whale shark young. For example, it has been found that the captured blue sharks spend young whales.

Allocates are fascinating. Their mouth acts as vacuum, water suction and filtering in small fish species. They were also observed that coughing water, suggesting that they can regurgit excess water in this way. The teeth of the whale shark are numerous, but very small, so they do not tear and tear, just like other large sharks like large white.

At present, there are several aquariums that have been able to successfully accommodate a whale shark. Two aquariums in Japan have Whale sharks. Aquarium in Georgia, Atlanta, has four whales, two men and two women. They hope that they will be able to study the breeding and reproductive habits of a whale shark, as well as gender interaction to increase knowledge of this fascinating type of fish.