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Whale Sharks
The largest living species of shark, these gentle giants feed on plankton and can be found all over the world.
279 Questions
Is a whale shark or a butanding a carnivore herbivore or omnivore?
It's not a carnivore. It's a filter feeder, it eats plankton, that mix of plants and animals that live near the surface of the oceans ... so I suppose you could call it an omnivore.
How deep do whale sharks go to?
at 5:00pm-9:00pm the whale shark goes about 1,000 ft deep. but in the morning it spends its time in the shallow waters.
Just a short not to add that the Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) is capable of diving to depths of at least 1,286 metres (4,219 ft, to use the above metric terminology). In Journal of Fish Biology, volume 74, February 2009.
Is a Whale Shark a Whale or a Shark or a hybrid?
It is a shark that looks like a whale. It is also the biggest fish.
The whale shark is the most gentle shark, where a diver could pet it and swim right next to it.
Which is stronger a whale shark or a dinosour?
It depends on the dinosaur. Most dinosaurs were actually fairly small. However the largest dinosaurs were definitely bigger than a whale shark.
Whale sharks are slow moving plankton filter feeders. So would not eat crabs.
Is the oldest whale shark still alive?
according to its birth certificate it is the oldest - until we find another one
Are whale sharks fish or mammals?
They are Sharks, therefore a fish. Very, very big: Plankton eaters.
How many whale sharks are left in the world?
There are approximately about 1,00,000 to 2,00,000 whale sharks left in the wild.
One reason it is hunted is because its fins are considered very valuable and can be sold for a high price.
Does the male or female whale shark nurture their young?
Neither, sharks fend for themselves from birth.
Can a crowd of tuna fish kill a whale shark?
Definitely not. Although whale sharks don't attack, you would have to have a huge crowd of tuna fish to size up. Even then, tuna fish don't attack.
No, Whales are mammals, so they are warmblooded
^^^^^That is wrong^^^^^
whale sharks are sharks, so they are cold-blooded
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They are all veretebrates.
Yes. The whale shark's diet is extremly vaired, their favourite meal is plankton.They scoop these tiny plants and animals up, along with any small fish that happen to be around, with their colossal gaping mouths while swimming close to the water's surface.
The whale shark, like the world's second largest fish, the basking shark, is a filter feeder. In order to eat, the beast juts out its formidably sized jaws and passively filters everything in its path. The mechanism is theorized to be a technique called "cross-flow filtration," similar to some bony fish and baleen whales.
Have the whale shark changed over time?
They havent really changed because nothing has happen to them.
How small is a whale shark when they are born?
At birth, whale sharks are quite small.
The whale sharks give birth to live young which are 40 to 60 centimetres.
The largest fish in the world. They are really, really big sharks that are bluish greyish with White spots.
a whale shark is frendly and big and wide it eats lots and lots of plankton to overload its hunger
The whale shark is the largest known fish on the planet.
the world's largest fish,up to 50 feet or more,eats plankton.
