Shark is one of the most dangerous aquatic animals in the world and there are many species of sharks and today we will look at one of the giant shark species, whale shark.
Shark Whale is the largest shark, ranging in length from 5.5 meters to 10 meters and sometimes up to 12 meters and the average size of the whale shark reaches 18.7 tons. As for the age of the whale shark Faisal to 70 years, this type of shark lives in the seas and oceans The whale shark has been present on earth for 60 million years.
Due to the size of the whale shark, it has many choices for species of food. Fortunately for marine creatures, the whale shark is the favorite plankton, but the mouth of the giant whale shark, which is 1.5 meters wide, can swallow all the things surrounding it while swimming from plants or Small fish.
The whale shark is characterized by the presence of natural purifiers inside its mouth that makes it swallow the food and release the other things that it can not digest. The whale swallows the whale more than 10 cm thick, and the whale shark has about 350 small teeth plus 5 large pairs of gills It has two small eyes on both sides of the shark front. The whale is wide and the whale shark is often gray with white patches and the whale shark's thickness reaches 10 cm.
Shark Whale is not a skilled shark in swimming, its speed is not more than 5 km per hour. Information about the whale shark is not big enough. One of the whale sharks was caught in 1996 and there were 300 small whale pests. On that case, the whale shark does not lay its eggs but keeps it inside its body until the eggs hatch and then the young ones emerge, so they look like they are giving birth and not bleaching, and the whale shark's length ranges from 40 to 60 cm.
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The whale shark does not pose a danger to humans, although it has a large body, where it swims near the sands and seems very peaceful with them but takes violent positions if an attempt is made by a diver.