The largest whale shark population ever

Up to 420 whale sharks have gathered in an area of ​​the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), forming the world's largest whale shark population ever.

Elephant fat (weighing about 36,000 kg / head) is a solitary species. So their gathering in groups may be due to some reason, said the Smithsonian National Animal Park (USA).

Whale sharks gather to eat fish eggs.

' Whale sharks are the world's largest fish, but their food is mostly small creatures like plankton, however, in this case, hundreds of whale sharks gather to eat the eggs. big fish'. Mike Maslanka, a biologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, said.

This fish population consists of about 420 fish.

Due to its size, whale sharks move slowly and are not particularly aggressive. Fish often live in tropical waters and tropical fish often open their mouths to 1.5m wide to wait for food to pass.

Whale shark or whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a special member in the subspecies of Elasmobranchii (sharks, rays) of the cartilage class (Chondrichthyes). It is the largest shark and also the largest surviving fish species of the largest size. (The smallest fish known now is the genus Paedocypris in the Carp family.)

Whale shark live in tropical oceans and warm waters of the world. Considered to live outside the ocean, they also gather seasonally in some coastal areas such as the Ningaloo reef in western Australia as well as Pemba and Zanzibar in the East Coast ocean area.

Whale shark mainly live solitary and rarely see them swim. It is believed that they migrate, but experts still do not know how far they can migrate (possibly transatlantic migration).