Whale sharks are hard to number exactly, being mainly a pelagic species. But it appears their numbers are safe for now.
about 100,000 shark live in the ocean in the US
There are many types of sharks that live in the Pacific Ocean. Some of these types include the Great White, the Tiger shark, the Dusky shark, the Blue shark, the Gray Reef shark, and the Blacktip shark.
It depends on how big and how old the whale shark is. :)
There are many animals that live in the Indian Ocean, here is just a few: Angelfish Angelshark Basking Shark Beluga Whale Bivalves Blowfish Bluefine Tuna Blue Ring Octopus Blue Shark Blue Whale Bony Fihs Bottlenose Dolphine Bowhead Whale Brittle Star Bull Shark Clam Clown Fish Coelacanth Conch Cookiecutter Shark Copepod Coral Crab Crustaceans Cuttlefish Dall's Porpoise Dogfish Shark Dungong Dunkleosteus Echinoderms Eels Elephant Seal Fiddler Crab Fin Whale Fish - various species Galapoagos Shark Gastropods Giant Squid Gray Whale Great hammerhead Shark Great White Shark Greenland Shark Gulper Eel Hammerhead Shark Harbor Seal Harp Seal Hatchetfish Hermit Crab Horsehoe Crab Humpback Whale Jellyfish John Dory Killer While Knobbed Whelk Krill Landernfish Lemon Shark Limpet Lobster Loggerhead Turtle Luminous Shark Mako Shark Manattee Man of War Manta Ray Megamouth Minke Whale Mollusks Moray Eel Nurse Shark Octopus
blue whale, great white shark, dolphin, Nautilus, cuttlefish, bottlenose dolphins, white tip reef shark, mako shark, Bull shark, tiger shark, man-o-war, moon jellyfish, sea urchin, clown fish, orca, kahola/humpback whale, grey whale, sperm whale, there is still many to be discovered, the ocean has some of the most abuntant wildlife
Many whales grow larger than the largest shark. The whale shark is the largest shark at 50 feet, while the blue whale can be two times as long.
how manypffspring dose a whale shark have
You may wonder why this fish is called a whale shark. Scientists have determined that it is a species of shark, because of its skeleton (composed entirely of cartilage), and its tough, leathery, scaleless skin. People called it a whale shark because of its enormous size (like a whale), not because it's a type of whale. A whale is a mammal; a warmblooded creature that has lungs and breathes air, gives birth to its young and nurses them with milk produced by mammary glands. A shark is a fish; it "breathes" its oxygen by passing water over its gills. But no a Whale Shark is not a mammal because it it both half and half warm blooded so it is not a mammal.A whaleshark is not a mammal. They are one of the largest types of sharks, whale is in their name because of their size, although they aren't related to whales.
The biggest shark ever recorded is the whale shark, which can grow up to about 60 feet in length.
Shark, dolphin, sea turtle, humpback whale, sperm whale, seahorse, krill, fish, shrimp, baleen whale, orca (killer whale), seal, penguin, manatee, baluga whale. That's all I can think of right now I !
wath does whale shark eat
blue whale