In-water observations highlight the effects of provisioning on whale shark behaviour at the world's largest whale shark tourism destination [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 The whale shark is the world's largest fish that forms predictable aggregations across its range, many of which support tourism industries. The largest non-captive provisioned whale shark destination globally is at Oslob, Philippines, where more than 500
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Does bathymetry drive coastal whale shark (Rhincodon typus) aggregations? [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is known to aggregate in a number of coastal locations globally, however what causes these aggregations to form where they do is largely unknown.
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Illegal Trade in Protected Sharks: The Case of Artisanal Whale Shark Meat Fisheries in Java, Indonesia [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, including that of sharks, poses a significant threat to marine ecosystems and individual species. I use data from the media, tourists, and artisan fishermen to gain insight into the trade in the world’s ...
Vincent Nijman
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The European Zoological Journal, 2021 Whale sharks are known to aggregate in coastal areas. In the South Ari Marine Protected Area (Maldives) a aggregation, mostly represented by young males with a high level of residency, has been described in the literature.
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Pieces in a global puzzle: Population genetics at two whale shark aggregations in the western Indian Ocean [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 The whale shark Rhincodon typus is found throughout the world's tropical and warm‐temperate ocean basins. Despite their broad physical distribution, research on the species has been concentrated at a few aggregation sites.
Royale S. Hardenstine +14 more
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Armored eyes of the whale shark. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 This report elaborates on adaptations of the eyes of the whale shark Rhincodon typus (Elasmobranchii, Rhincodontidae), including the discovery that they are covered with dermal denticles, which is a novel mechanism of eye protection in vertebrates.
Taketeru Tomita +6 more
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Flow-driven patterns of whale shark movement in the Red Sea [PDF]
Scientific ReportsDynamic ocean features (e.g., currents, eddies) can drive large-scale transport of water masses and nutrients, facilitating localized plankton blooms and affecting the migration patterns of higher trophic levels.
Raquel L. Ostrovski +9 more
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Nutrient availability drives local seasonal movements of an endangered marine megafauna species [PDF]
Scientific ReportsUnderstanding drivers of animal movement is key to predicting species distributions and guiding conservation. Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are an endangered species known for broad seasonal migrations across oceans influenced by factors like ...
Daire Carroll +3 more
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Draft sequencing and assembly of the genome of the world’s largest fish, the whale shark: Rhincodon typus Smith 1828 [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2017 Background The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) has by far the largest body size of any elasmobranch (shark or ray) species. Therefore, it is also the largest extant species of the paraphyletic assemblage commonly referred to as fishes. As both a phenotypic
Timothy D. Read +11 more
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A global image-based data repository of killer whale interactions with elasmobranchs [PDF]
Scientific DataKiller whales (Orcinus orca) are cosmopolitan apex predators that interact with numerous species, including sharks, skates, and rays (subclass Elasmobranchii).
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