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Why has the whale shark become so endangered?

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The whale shark is the largest living shark, therefore, the largest fish.


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The biggest shark on the world is the whale shark because it eats plankton so that is why they named it the whale shark. The whale shark is 12.5m long and weighs 15 tones. The whale shark does not eat humans, but they have eaten 200 people in 100 years. This was only because they did not know we are meat not plankton. Although a couple of years ago 20 student went out to swim, and the whale shark ate 4/20 of them. The whale shark is the biggest shark on the world. People also say that the whale shark lives in the Missisippi River in Texas. So the whale shark is getting extinct because people are hunting on them. So just for your safety BEWARE


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When did the whale whale become endangered?

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