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Whale sharks have been observed "coughing", presumably to clear a build-up of particles from the filter pads. Whale sharks migrate to feed and possibly to breed. [10] [68] [69] The whale shark is an active feeder, targeting concentrations of plankton or fish. It is able to ram filter feed or can gulp in a stationary position.
Shark Anatomy (50693674756) The gill slits of a whale shark flaring as it expels water from its pharyngeal cavity. In the shark anatomy image, it depicts the beginning half of the shark, including the gills. The shark gills are especially important and were evolved from the chordate pharyngeal gill slits synapomorphy.
The story, as reported, is that during a whaling expedition off the Falkland Islands, Bartley's boat was attacked by the whale and he landed inside the whale's mouth.He survived the ordeal and was carved out of the stomach by his peers when they, not knowing he was inside, caught and began skinning the whale, because the hot weather otherwise would have rotted the whale meat.
(For those of you who have never heard the majestic term, that's a turkey inside a duck inside a chicken. They get popular around Thanksgiving and Christmas Scientists find a whale inside a whale ...
Basking sharks, whale sharks, and megamouth sharks have independently evolved different strategies for filter feeding plankton: basking sharks practice ram feeding, whale sharks use suction to take in plankton and small fishes, and megamouth sharks make suction feeding more efficient by using the luminescent tissue inside of their mouths to ...
A whale shark in the Maldives. Ipah Uid Lynn/Ocean Photographer of the Year 2024. Lynn's award-winning portfolio included this image of a whale shark surrounded by a school of fish in the Maldives.
Orca vs. whale shark. The researchers’ analysis revealed exactly how the killer whales, often hunting as a group, subdue the whale shark. First, the orcas use their bodies to hit a whale shark ...
A shark can sense a turtle, octopus or other prey from up to 20m away. In one experiment, a scientist plugged one of a shark's nostrils. It swam around in a circle. Shark brains aren’t round like a human's; they are long and narrow. If sharks don’t keep on swimming they sink to the seabed. A typical shark has several hundred teeth at any ...