The Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is well-known to be a filter feeder. It also happens to be the largest living fish species.
Conversely, the Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) AKA 'White death' is a very successful carnivore, utilizing the ambush method to prey upon fish, cetaceans, pinnipeds, sea turtles, sea birds, and sea otters.
Yes, the whale shark is a filter feeder. It is one out of three sharks that are filter feeders.
The whale shark is the largest fish on the planet, and is a slow moving, filter feeder.
Basking Sharks and Whale sharks
The whale shark is the largest fish on the planet, and is a slow moving, filter feeder.
The great white. The whale shark is a filter feeder, lives on plankton, krill and small stuff it can collect from the ocean. Duh the Great white. Whale sharks are harmless dummy
A whale shark.
The whale shark is a large filter feeding shark.
The whale shark.
It is the Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus).
The Whale shark (Rhincodon typus).
The White Shark is the more dangerous of the two, the Whale Shark is a filter feeder that feeds on plankton
A whale shark is a filter feeder; it sifts plankton and small shrimps from the water it swims through.