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Whale shark feeding with jacks.

Whale shark feeding with jacks.
Whale shark feeding with jacks.
Whale shark feeding with jacks.
Whale shark feeding with jacks.
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Thorrold, Simon
Whale shark feeding with jacks.
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05/01/2010
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Saudi Arabia, May 2010.
Two whale sharks feeding with jacks in the Red Sea in May 2010. Whale sharks (Rincodon typus) are rare but widely distributed throughout the world's tropical oceans. Despite their distribution, they are poorly understood. WHOI biologists led by Simon Thorrold, director of the Fish Ecology Lab at WHOI, are using PSAT tags to examine movements of whale sharks in the Red Sea in collaboration with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
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Whale sharks and other large fish such as rays, tuna, and swordfish roam our oceans, but we know remarkably little about them. That impedes our ability to understand their roles in ocean ecosystems and to develop effective conservation strategies for them, says WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold. The WHOI Fish Ecology Labs TOTEM Project uses satellite tags to track the movements of large fish and some of the conditions of the waters they swim in. TOTEM stands for Tagging of Oceanic Teleost and Elasmobranch Megafauna. Teleosts are bony fish such as tuna and swordfish. Elasmobranchs are cartilaginous fish such as sharks and rays.
Photo by Simon Thorrold
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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