whale shark

Whale sharks are big animals.
 They eat plankton and small fish.

Whale sharks have big mouths
 to eat a lot of plankton

Interesting Facts about Whale sharks

As the largest fish in the sea, reaching length's of 40 feet (12 meters) or more, whale sharks have an enormous menu from which to choose. Fortunately for most sea-dwellers-and us!-their favorite food is plankton. They scoop these tiny animals and plants up, along with any tiny fish that happens to get in it's mouth. The whale shark, like the world's second largest fish, the basking shark is a filter feeder. In order to feed it juts out it's formidably sized jaws and sucks in everything in the vicinity. The wale shark's flattened head sports a blunt snout above its mouth with short barbels protruding from its nostrils. Its back and sides are gray and brown with white spots among a pale vertical and horizontal stripes and its belly is white. Its two dorsal fins are sets rewards on its body, which end in a large daul-lobbed caudal fin (or tail). Preferring warm waters, whale sharks populate all tropical seas. They are known to migrate every spring to central west coast of Australia. The Whale Shark is a fascinating creature to behold. With no known predators (except humans) and a completely peaceful nature they are huge, harmless and sublime.

The Whale Shark was first described and named by Andrew Smith in 1828, based on a specimen harpooned in Table Bay, South Africa.

The whale shark are actually fish and not whales.