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A 1 p.m. curfew and a 30-minute time limit on whale shark watching in Oslob town, Cebu, are among several guidelines proposed by a technical working group led by the Provincial Capitol. The time limit will prevent stressing the marine animals, who have been getting intense public attention from tourists and local visitors since August last year.
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Like giant goldfish, these massive whale sharks don't mind being fed hand to mouth by their fishermen friends. Photographed near Oslob in the Philippines, the groundbreaking images show close relationship previously not thought possible. Captured by conservationist Shawn Heinrichs, the once-in-a-lifetime behaviour of the half dozen whale sharks up to 25ft long and the 12 or so fishermen draws gasps of disbelief from casual observers. The food-based .....
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The Fisheries Agency yesterday announced a five-year project with National Taiwan Ocean University and Wildlife21 that seeks to attach satellite tags to 100 endangered whale sharks to expand research and promote conservation of the species.
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You could call it a whale of a "swarm"—the biggest observed gathering of whale sharks was spotted off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula in 2009, according to a recent study.
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On first appearances, this diver's task seems a little daunting - as he pours a bucket of plankton into the gaping mouth of a whale shark that looks like it could swallow him whole. The shark is the latest visitor attraction at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise Aquarium on the edge of Yokohama Bay in suburban Tokyo.
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A brutally killed baby whale shark was found in Barangay Oloc, Laua-an, Antique over the weekend.
The year-and-a-half-old whale shark, locally referred to as a butanding, was stabbed six times before its tail was cut off, according to a report in GMA News' “24 Oras" on Monday.
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(CBS News) So much for the previous assumption that whale sharks were solitary denizens of the deep. As many as 420 - count `em - 420 whale sharks crowded into a 7 square mile patch of ocean off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula in 2009 - the largest such sighting ever recorded.
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The whale shark is a creature of many mysteries. Now, researchers hope to answer a few by sequencing the complete genome of the world's largest fish. Researchers at Emory University and the Georgia Aquarium are working to create a complete library of whale shark DNA, sequencing the genomes of the aquarium's captive sharks, which come from Taiwan, and comparing them with wild whale sharks in Mexico.
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Ahmedabad: A whale shark was satellite-tagged for the first time in India, earlier this week, as part of research to understand behavior, ecological preferences and migration of this species. The first set of data received on Wednesday morning indicated that the tagged individual, a 6.5 m long male rescued off the Gujarat coast, had reached the coast of Maharashtra, according to a statement by Wildlife Trust of India (WTI).
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Photo-footage of a juvenile Whale Shark being caught and landed by fishermen off the coast of Valvettithurai, Sri Lanka.
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