Sentences with phrase «many whale sharks»

Modern Family members Ed O'Neill and Ty Burrell will play an octopus who's missing a tentacle and a whale respectively, Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton will lend their pipes as Dory's parents, Idris Elba and Dominic West are a couple of sea lions and Kaitlin Olsen will voice a lovable whale shark.

Claim your inner Picasso and go for it, or identify the critter after it comes off the grill (as I did with this whale shark / blowfish... whatever).

The Georgia Aquarium is right there at Centennial Park, and they have a damn whale shark in a tank for your spectating and TWO species of adorable otters.

Have no fear Penguins fans, Whale Sharks are totally harmless.

It's not every day that you get to swim with a Whale Shark.

If you can go in September, you may catch the end of whale shark season where you can snorkel with these gentle giants... an experience the kids won't soon forget!

SWIMMING WITH WHALE SHARKS

They offer leopard sharks, whale sharks, mako sharks, black tip sharks, and blue sharks.

Whale sharks» habits are still poorly understood, but electronic tagging is beginning to reveal their secrets.

Scientists recently realized that whale sharks aren't slow, lumbering creatures as previously thought; instead they leverage their massive weight to dive - bomb through the water like a hawk falling through the sky.

For example, the Whale Shark and Regal Koi designs actually resemble the patterns of a whale shark or koi fish.

For instance, the number of whale sharks at Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia declined on average by 19 percent from 2001 to 2005.

Using a star - recognition algorithm developed by NASA, volunteers Jason Holmberg and Zaven Arzoumanian, and marine biologist Brad Norman from Murdoch University in Australia, have developed software that can assign a whale shark a «digital fingerprint» based on a photograph of the pattern of spots on its back.

But the biggest treat arrived while I was snorkeling afterwards, when I was treated to a swim with a whale shark — a filter feeder, not a predator — so close that our local guide, Diego, could pet its dorsal fin (I have my limits).

Even snorkeling, I had a whale shark come to swim right under me, and a white - tipped reef shark came so close I had a good look at its smile.

A planktivorous diet, also called suspension - feeding, is known among some specialized aquatic vertebrates today, including the Blue Whale, Manta Ray and Whale Shark.

Living shark species range from a few that could fit in your hand, such as the dwarf lanternshark, to a few you could fit inside, including the whale shark, which grows up to 40 feet long.

At the other end of the scale is the whale shark that can grow to more than 12 metres and whose presence, fishers say, brings good luck.

Whale sharks that make lengthy dives into the cold ocean depths to forage tend to spend a lot of time at the surface warming up afterward, a new study suggests.

Analyses of data for these lengthy dives reveal that the colder the waters were at maximum depth, the more time the whale sharks spent basking at the surface immediately afterward, the researchers report online today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Regaining body heat may help the creatures better digest their recent meals, the researchers note, because the warmer the whale sharks are, the more quickly and efficiently their metabolic activity proceeds.

Local scientists studying whale shark migratory behaviors shared their knowledge with Conservation International and Georgia Aquarium, and have in turn received a more complete worldview of whale shark migratory patterns — an important aspect of conserving a wide - ranging species.

As luck would have it, the perfect opportunity came in the form of a unique interaction between fishers and whale sharks that occurs in Cendrawasih Bay.

Georgia Aquarium experts, who care for whale sharks daily, brought to the expedition critical knowledge and proven techniques ensuring the welfare of the wild whale sharks while teams collected the biological samples.

The researchers then used the DNA to estimate the number of reproductive female whale sharks — roughly 71,000.

Biologist Eva Egelyng Sigsgaard at the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen and her team collected seawater containing skin cells — along with cells from urine and feces — naturally shed by the whale sharks and other animals.

The migratory species is constantly on the move, making it extremely difficult to perform health assessments or collect biological samples on free - swimming whale sharks.

* Correction, 22 November, 12:19 p.m.: The story has been changed to reflect that the population estimate of whale sharks corresponded to individuals in one genetically similar group.

Using only the DNA from sloughed - off cells floating in the ocean, scientists have been able to determine the population size and genetic properties of one of the world's largest and most mysterious animals: the whale shark.

The research traces its origins to one summer day in 2007, when a worker on a Maersk Oil platform in the Al Shaheen oil field off the coast of Qatar saw a surprising sight: a group of roughly 100 whale sharks feeding near the surface.

«Whale sharks are hard to tag.

Andi Rusandi, Director of Marine Conservation and Biodiversity at MMAF, shared the importance of this study, «As we strive to develop whale shark ecotourism in Indonesia to benefit our local communities and these majestic animals themselves, it is important to highlight conservation.

Ben G. Saroy, Head of Cendrawasih Bay National Park Authority, agreed, «Cendrawasih Bay, home to the biggest whale shark population in Indonesia, requires comprehensive information to manage this endangered species.

The research advancement, which occurred in Indonesia's remote Cendrawasih Bay, has significant implications for unlocking the mysteries surrounding the overall health of whale sharks — including the potential impacts of tourism on their health.

These health assessments are designed to provide important insights on whether whale shark ecotourism and research activities are having a significant impact on the sharks» welfare.

In 2012, CI scientists repeatedly observed this peculiar situation, and in 2015 opportunistically deployed the world's first fin - mounted archival satellite tags on wild whale sharks prior to their release — resulting in a wealth of movement data which has since helped to inform the management and conservation of the species in Indonesia.

«As we begin decoding what we've collected from wild whale sharks, we become better positioned to protect them and educate the public about their importance.»

This is critically important for us to understand, both to inform our tagging and research activities and especially for the Indonesian government to be able to sustainably manage whale shark ecotourism in a manner that benefits local coastal communities without negatively affecting the whale sharks.»

This «free» meal is too good to pass up for whale sharks, which can be seen feeding on the baitfish around the bagans all year round.

She had also traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, to swim with rays and filter - feeding whale sharks to try to film their mouths as they feed.

They also prefer to feed on the rich blubber of whales and seals, so whale sharks might be less appetising to them.

He is not surprised, though, to find bits of a full - sized whale shark in a white shark's belly.

The Wildbook for Whale Sharks photo - identification library is a visual database of whale shark (Rhincodon typus) encounters and of individually catalogued whale sharks.

«Newly discovered juvenile whale shark aggregation in Red Sea.»

The research team utilized three types of satellite transmitting tags to track the movements of 47 whale sharks from 2009 through 2011.

Whale shark diets vary both seasonally and geographically, but they are thought to feed mainly on zooplankton as well as algae, small fishes, fish eggs, and cephalopods.

Fishermen also learned that whale sharks are so large that they naturally attract tuna, much like a FAD.

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and colleagues from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries report on the movements of whale sharks tagged at the site in a study published July 30, 2014, in the journal PLOS ONE.

Whale sharks, the largest fish in the sea, received new protection that reduces the risk they could be caught in fishing nets.

Every whale shark has a unique pattern of spots and stripes on their skin, much like a fingerprint is a unique marker of individual humans.