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    The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species. The largest confirmed individual...
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    basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living shark and fish, after the whale shark. It is one of three plankton-eating shark species...
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    white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), also known as the white shark, white pointer, or simply great white, is a species of large mackerel shark which...
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    Megalodon (redirect from Megalodon shark)
    whale-eating cetaceans, such as Livyatan and other macroraptorial sperm whales and possibly smaller ancestral killer whales (Orcinus). As the shark preferred...
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    deep sea species that is only 17 centimetres (6.7 in) in length, to the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), the largest fish in the world, which reaches approximately...
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    smallest of the three extant filter-feeding sharks alongside the relatively larger whale shark and basking shark. According to Sharkman's World Organization...
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    carpet shark (Parascyllium variolatum), the zebra shark (Stegostoma fasciatum), and the ornate wobbegong (Orectolobus ornatus). Nurse sharks and whale sharks...
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    A whale fall occurs when the carcass of a whale has fallen onto the ocean floor, typically at a depth greater than 1,000 m (3,300 ft), putting them in...
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    specimens include whale sharks, beluga whales, California sea lions, bottlenose dolphins, manta rays, sea otters, and tiger sharks. Its centerpiece is...
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    Orca (redirect from Orca Whale)
    prey. This includes a variety of fish, sharks, rays, and marine mammals such as seals and other dolphins and whales. They are highly social; some populations...
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  • who fears being eaten by a shark and is an enemy to Don Lino. Sean Bishop as an unnamed green sperm whale who attends the Whale Wash. Christina Aguilera...
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    the largest extant sharks, the tiger shark ranks in average size only behind the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)...
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    pelagic zone Sand tiger sharks – tend to congregate on certain reefs and wrecks at specific times of the year Basking and whale sharks – non-aggressive plankton...
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    and the third largest shark overall after the whale shark and the basking shark. Due to living in frigid depths, the sleeper shark's liver oil does not contain...
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    Rhincodontidae (category Shark families)
    Rhincodontidae is a shark family which includes the whale shark, the sole extant member and the largest living fish. A single extinct genus, Palaeorhincodon...
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  • biologist, ocean scientist, conservationist, and has been the director of Whale Shark México (Tiburon Ballena Mexico) since 2003. She leads the "Giants of...
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  • Thumbnail for Filter feeder
    and bighead carps, baleen whales, manta ray and three species of sharks—the whale shark, basking shark and megamouth shark). Some water birds such as...
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    windows includes 65,000 marine animal aquarium in Dubai and will be amazed as sharks, rays and fish glide right past your bed. Atlantis The Palm, opened on 24...
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    regard the whale shark and the basking shark as trophy species, and pay $10,000 to $20,000 for a fin. The regulated global catch of sharks reported to...
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    brackish water and river life are also handled. The specialties are whale shark (Yuyu) and Satsumahaorimushi. The Japanese name "Io" is Kagoshima dialect...
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  • Thumbnail for List of largest fish
    Fish vary greatly in size. The whale shark and basking shark exceed all other fish by a considerable margin in weight and length. Fish are a paraphyletic...
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    the tourist spots in the province because of the frequent sightings of whale sharks (known as butanding in the local vernacular) in the coastal areas. The...
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    Lamniformes (redirect from Mackerel Shark)
    (/ˈlæmnɪfɔːrmiːz/, from Greek lamna "fish of prey") are an order of sharks commonly known as mackerel sharks (which may also refer specifically to the family Lamnidae)...
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    tourist destination and now known as the “Whale Shark Capital of the World”. Interaction with the whale sharks is regulated by the local Department of Tourism...
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    Rhincodontidae (Whale sharks) Genus Rhincodon A. Smith, 1828 Rhincodon typus A. Smith, 1828 (whale shark) Family Stegostomatidae (zebra sharks) Genus Stegostoma...
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    attraction. Local fishermen feed the whale sharks by hand which tourists find entertaining. In the vicinity of whale shark swimming is a recent attraction:...
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    communication, or for ramming prey and other sperm whales. The whale may have interacted with the large extinct shark megalodon (Otodus megalodon), competing with...
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  • great white sharks, hammerhead sharks, reef sharks, megamouth shark, megalodon, basking sharks and whale sharks. To progress, the player must consume other...
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  • Thumbnail for Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium
    the first public aquariums in the world that breeds large sharks and rays such as whale sharks and manta rays. The captivity of manta ray dates back to...
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    Jonah (redirect from Jonah and the Whale)
    the Whale Shark". The Scientific Monthly. 50 (3): 225–233. Bibcode:1940SciMo..50..225G. JSTOR 16929. Eveleth, Rose (25 February 2013). "Could a whale accidentally...
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