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Satellite tagging highlights the importance of productive Mozambican coastal waters to the ecology and conservation of whale sharks [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 The whale shark Rhincodon typus is an endangered, highly migratory species with a wide, albeit patchy, distribution through tropical oceans. Ten aerial survey flights along the southern Mozambican coast, conducted between 2004–2008, documented a ...
Christoph A. Rohner +8 more
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Whale sharks of the western Caribbean: an overview of current research and cnservation efforts and future needs for effective management of the species [PDF]
, 2007 Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are seasonal visitors to four sites in the Western Caribbean, 3 of which are encompassed by the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.
Graham, Rachel T.
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Fish Food in the Deep Sea: Revisiting the Role of Large Food-Falls [PDF]
, 2014 The carcasses of large pelagic vertebrates that sink to the seafloor represent a bounty of food to the deep-sea benthos, but natural food-falls have been rarely observed.
Gates, Andrew R. +11 more
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2010 A Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) was sighted on the water surface, three km offshore and 12 km north of Rushikulya river mouth on 22 February 2009. The length of the whale shark indicates that it is likely to be a juvenile.
S. John
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Recent whale shark ( Rhincodon typus) beach strandings in Australia [PDF]
Marine Biodiversity Records, 2009 We document two recent beach strandings of whale sharks on both the east and west coasts of Australia and compare them to strandings of other species of shark and cetaceans. Historically, whale shark stranding is an unusual phenomenon in Australia. Although the reasons for whale shark strandings are speculative, their low frequency suggests they are ...
Speed, C. +3 more
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Asymptotic Growth of Whale Sharks Suggests Sex-Specific Life-History Strategies
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 Age and growth data are central to management or conservation strategies for any species. Circumstantial evidence suggests that male whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) grow to asymptotic sizes much smaller than those predicted by age and growth studies and ...
Mark G. Meekan +10 more
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Spizaetus, 2023 Desa Botubarani merupakan desa wisata dengan daya tarik utamanya yakni wisata hiu paus (Rhincodon typus) atau whale shark. Kegiatan wisata yang berlangsung diharapkan dan diupayakan terus berkembang serta memberikan manfaat bagi masyarakat setempat ...
Triyana Sefya Saleh +2 more
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, 2014 Published as part of Carneiro, Miguel, Martins, Rogélia, Landi, Monica & Costa, Filipe O., 2014, Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf, pp. 1-73 in European Journal of Taxonomy 73 on page 10, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.73, http://zenodo.org/record ...
Carneiro, Miguel +3 more
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Movement patterns of juvenile whale sharks tagged at an aggregation site in the Red Sea. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Conservation efforts aimed at the whale shark, Rhincodon typus, remain limited by a lack of basic information on most aspects of its ecology, including global population structure, population sizes and movement patterns.
Michael L Berumen +4 more
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Highlighting when animals expend excessive energy for travel using dynamic body acceleration
iScience, 2022 Summary: Travel represents a major cost for many animals so there should be selection pressure for it to be efficient – at minimum cost. However, animals sometimes exceed minimum travel costs for reasons that must be correspondingly important.
Rory P. Wilson +7 more
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