Thursday, September 2, 2010

Have you ever wondered what the whale sharks Get Up to the case of not exciting underwater?

Not much is known about the habits of these animals. Adults tend to be solitary and nothing about how to find the other, well known. Young whale sharks in less than 3 meters live in small groups, but are rarely seen. It is believed that they spend most of their time in the great ocean depths, in order to deny their greater vulnerability. No one knows what they eat during this period.

Divers are practically guarantees encounters with sharks, whales in various parts of the worldthe right season - namely, the Philippines, Seychelles, Christmas Island, South Africa, Mozambique, Belize, Honduras, Mexico and Western Australia.

sightings of whale sharks are common in Thailand, especially on diving around the Andaman Sea and Richelieu Rock. The odds of spotting a whale shark in Phuket is very high, especially during February to May each year.

Eating Habits

These filter feeders eat plankton, krill, fishEggs, small fish, salps, jellyfish and corals spawn. They are known as harmless fish is not a danger to humans or fish for them in school. In reality, its little teeth play no role at all for food.

Food enters the whale shark in the mouth by then it draws the water through their gills and plankton and other food stains, slightly larger than 3.2 mm in diameter, discharging trapped against the dermal denticles.

The whale shark dermal denticles areSieves, leaving only water and small particles. Everything else is ingested as food. Occasionally cough whale shark, an action, scientists believe, is the dermal denticles of food clear structure.

The whale shark can open it in water for moving forward with his mouth, but can also swallow water when in a stationary position.

Reproduction and life cycle

Notes on reproduction and life cycle are few and fragmented. It was not until 1956believed to spawn because the eggs were the discovery of a lonely lot in Mexico.

However, within a pregnant whale shark that was killed by fishermen in 1995 in Taiwan, about 300 embryos found in those with a length of 40 - 60cm. Based on this discovery it was thought that because even if they ovoviviparus formed pockets of eggs remain inside the mother's body without the mother's diet until they are born, live and reproduce.

Because of thissingle whale shark is estimated that they reach sexual maturity between 30. But much remains a mystery as to where they mate, how often they mate or reproduce, or when about to give birth.

And 'generally accepted that these creatures live in splendid sea can be more than 100 years. Now that would make underwater photography to bring home a good dive with your dive holiday!

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