Dolphins are warm blooded mammals that give birth to live young. The shark is a cartilaginous (no spinal bones) fish that either lay eggs or hatch eggs internally. The egg cases of sharks are known as a 'mermaids purse'.
Whales are marine mammals, they give live birth, nurse their young and breathe with lungs.
Sharks have more "fishy" character traits. They breathe with gills, many lay eggs, they're cold-blooded etc.
i think it is due to the fact thay are the largest of enny living shark.
thay are also filter feeding sharks.
and thay have no teeth and are generally a non Violante species of sharks.
Because whale sharks are not mammals and all whales are mammals. They mainly call them whale sharks because of their large size and the fact that the filter-feed.
Whales and dolphins are mammals, while fish and sharks are fish. Whales and dolphins breathe air just like land animals do, while fish and sharks have gills.
Sharks are cartilaginous fish and dolphins are mammals.
Sharks ARE a kind of fish.
The major difference is whale sharks are huge. They're around 30 feet long on average and the largest specimen found was around 40 feet long. Also whale sharks are filter feeders, as in they only eat plankton and krill. They're harmless and divers can easily swim beside them or even hold on to them.
In the whale sharks family there are other whale sharks and other sharks
Compared to most sharkes, whale sharks are considered to be non threatening to human beings. It is the largest non mamal verterbrate in the animal kingdom.
Whale Sharks are sharks
That would be the whale shark.
Whale sharks - like the majority of sharks - are cold blooded.
yes. Whale sharks are very rare.
No, Whale Sharks are docile filter-feeders.
There are 100,000 to 200,000 whale sharks left
They are Sharks, therefore a fish. Very, very big: Plankton eaters.
whale sharks have a steady diet of plankton all of their lives
Whale sharks can grow to be 46 feet long!