Swimming with Whale Sharks
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Whale sharks are the largest fish on the PLANET and feed on some of the smallest organisms in the oceans! They travel to Mexico every summer to feed on fish eggs and coral spawn.Its incredible to swim next to a 30-40ft long shark! They are 1 of only 3 filter feeding sharks and harmless to humans. Enjoy the video. www.LiquidProductions.com
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Destroy shark finning
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The Whale shark like all fish has a tail fin that is vertical, which allows it to move side by side to swim.
The Whale on the other hand has a fluke, which is a tail that goes up and down. Millions of years ago, the whale's ancestors started to leave the land to swim, and their flipper's (Search: Ambulocetus) turned into the fluke. If you want a modern look at how mammals swim that way, look at an otter for example.
Sorry for the long paragraph, hope that answers your question though. <:)
Is it okay if i use this footage for my school project?
A shark two feet long can bite your arm off, but this about 35 feet long shark is harmless. Weird.
I wanna swim with a whale shark at some point.
The Whale Shark is the largest fish or shark still alive. Megalodon (20-2 mya) was the largest known shark, and Leedsichthys was the largest known fish. Just spitting out facts at an argument 10 months old.
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You need to calm down.
Can't eat humans
it's so big not small and I want a pet whale sark it so cool
http://www.bajaairventures.com/BajaWhaleShark.html
Anyway, thanks, it was really informative
Bigger animals generally need more energy to sustain them. Sometimes it's not the size of the stuff they eat but the energy it contains. First you have to understand the concept of the food trophic level system and the energy pyramid. We have primary producers (generally plants or algae, both aquatic and land-based), primary consumers (whatever that eats those producers, generally herbivores or omnivores), secondary consumers (whatever that eats secondary producers, omnivores or carnivores), tertiary consumers (whatever that eats the secondary consumers, usually carnivores) and decomposers (they eat dead things and help recycle back all those remaining energy and nutrients because everything will die sometime; these are usually bacteria and fungi/mushrooms).
Producers (plants/algae) can generally make their own food using combinations of sunlight, water and other nutrients from the air, soil or ocean. So energy basically is provided by the sun (some exceptions are in very deep seas) so plants/algae will generally have the most amount of energy. This energy reduces by each level in the trophic level because the consumers will need part of the energy that they gain from eating to use for themselves for activities like breathing, moving around, keeping warm and stuff or loss through peeing and pooping. Whatever that eats this animal (dead or alive) will only get what's left of the energy that it has. If the animal dropped dead and nothing else eats them, then the decomposers will process them.
Let's say the sun has 10 gazillion units of energy. One plant individual cannot possibly harvest all that. In waters there are plant version of planktons called phytoplanktons. Let's say this one individual phytoplankton get 1000 energy from the sun. An animal version of plankton (zooplankton) then comes and eat the phytoplankton but they themselves can't extract nutrient and energy from the whole thing so out of 1000, they get 500 energy. The zooplankton needs to swim around and stuff so what's left is 400 energy. A small fish later comes and eat this zooplankton and get 300 (maybe they can't digest the harder parts of the zooplankton, for example or maybe they didn't get a bite at the whole animal, the fish just bit off a few legs and a head). This goes on and on until you get to the shark which doesn't have any more predators after that (we call this apex predator). By the time the energy that originates from one phytoplankton reach the shark, it's probably like, 5 or 10 units of energy out of the original 1000 that the phytoplankton have. So, a big animal like a whale will benefit more from eating tiny stuff, energy-wise than if it eats bigger animals like tunas or sharks. Plus, tiny animals are a lot easier to come by and more plentiful than the bigger ones. If whales eat tunas instead, I think there might not be enough tunas out there for them - and for us!
Thanks if you read this far. I hope you understand now.
is this in Mexico on the Baja?
+Misher name, the megalodon is concluded by scientists to be bigger than the whale shark but it's extinct so whale shark is now the biggest living fish. Sharks are fishes or cartilaginous fishes to be specific. The extinct Leedsichthys is a bony fish and also thought to be bigger or about equal in size with whale sharks.
There's a lot of common misconception about whales and whale sharks so hope this helps.
Thanks for the info. I was unaware. ;)
Friend: Hey man, whatcha doing?
Me: Oh, I've just been chilling with a 40 foot long shark for a while.
Friend: WHAT?!
Me: Yeah, we're migrating to Mexico. There's tons of cool food there for my new buddy! (by the way I'm replacing you with a whale shark)