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Whale shark residency and small-scale movements around oil and gas platforms in Qatar

Frontiers in Marine Science
Whale sharks seasonally aggregate near oil and gas platforms in Qatar to feed on fish spawn, creating one of the world’s largest aggregations of the species.
Steffen S. Bach, David P. Robinson, David P. Robinson, Mohammed Y. Al Jaidah, Simon J. Pierce, Simon J. Pierce, Prasad Thoppil, Christoph A. Rohner   +7 more
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First Evidence of Neonatal Whale Sharks (Rhincodon typus) in Saleh Bay, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Diversity
The reproductive biology of the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), the world’s largest fish, remains poorly understood, in large part due to the rarity of observations of neonates and of breeding behaviours.
Ismail Syakurachman, Yasman Yasman, Mochamad Iqbal Herwata Putra, Mark Erdmann, Mufti Petala Patria, Edy Setyawan   +5 more
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Benefit sharing from whale shark tourism in Botubarani, Gorontalo and Labuhan Jambu, Teluk Saleh

, 2021
A Djunaidi, Jamaluddin Jompa, N Nadiarti, Ahmad Bahar, Sukirman DJ. Tilahunga   +4 more
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Continuity in morphological disparity in tropical reef fishes across evolutionary scales

Communications Biology
Tropical reef fishes exhibit a large disparity of organismal morphologies contributing to their astonishing biodiversity. Morphological disparity, scaling from differences among individuals within populations to differences among species, is governed by ...
Giulia Francesca Azzurra Donati, Camille Albouy, Thomas Claverie, David Mouillot, Rodney Govinden, Oskar Hagen, Shameel Ibrahim, Julius Pagu, Irthisham Zareer, Fabien Leprieur, Loïc Pellissier   +10 more
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Whale Sharks (Rhincodon typus) in Botubarani Ecotourism Development Zone: Presence, Oceanographic, and Geomorphic Bathymetry Characters [PDF]

Pasisingi et al.
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Influence of Environmental Factors on the Surface Feeding Behaviour of Immature Male Whale Sharks in the Gulf of Tadjoura (Djibouti)

Conservation
The East African country of Djibouti is known to host an important seasonal feeding aggregation of whale sharks that allows the frequent observation of their surface feeding behaviour.
Francesca Romana Reinero, Andrea Marsella, Antonio Pacifico, Consuelo Vicariotto, Lara Maule, Makenna Mahrer, Primo Micarelli   +6 more
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The whale shark genome reveals how genomic and physiological properties scale with body size. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020
Weber JA, Park SG, Luria V, Jeon S, Kim HM, Jeon Y, Bhak Y, Jun JH, Kim SW, Hong WH, Lee S, Cho YS, Karger A, Cain JW, Manica A, Kim S, Kim JH, Edwards JS, Bhak J, Church GM, Church GM.   +20 more
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Whale Shark Aggregations in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

, 2013
Eric R. Hoffmayer, Jennifer A. McKinney, James S. Franks, Jill M. Hendon, William B. Driggers   +4 more
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Annual Bands in Vertebrae Validated by Bomb Radiocarbon Assays Provide Estimates of Age and Growth of Whale Sharks [PDF]

, 2020
Joyce J. L. Ong, Mark G. Meekan, Hua‐Hsun Hsu, L. Paul Fanning, Steven E. Campana   +4 more
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Ensemble modeling of the potential distribution of the whale shark in the Atlantic Ocean. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2020
Báez JC, Barbosa AM, Pascual P, Ramos ML, Abascal F.   +4 more
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