Oslob Whale Shark or more popular within the locals as Butanding. As the largest fish in the sea, reaching lengths of 40 feet or more, whale sharks have an enormous menu from which to choose. Fortunately for most sea-dwellers—and us!—their favorite meal is plankton. They scoop these tiny plants and animals up, along with any small fish that happen to be around, with their colossal gaping mouths while swimming close to the water’s surface.
COMMON NAME: Whale Shark
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Rhincodon typus
TYPE: Fish
DIET: Carnivores
GROUP NAME: School
AVERAGE LIFE SPAN IN THE WILD: 70 years
SIZE: 18 to 32.8 ft
WEIGHT: 20.6 tons
The whale shark, like the world’s second largest fish, the basking shark, is a filter feeder. In order to eat, the beast juts out its formidably sized jaws and passively filters everything in its path. The mechanism is theorized to be a technique called “cross-flow filtration,” similar to some bony fish and baleen whales.
Population
Preferring warm waters, whale sharks populate all tropical seas. They are known to migrate every spring to the continental shelf of the central west coast of Australia. The coral spawning of the area’s Ningaloo Reef provides the whale shark with an abundant supply of plankton. Oslob Whale shark are very gentle creatues.
Although massive, whale sharks are docile fish and sometimes allow swimmers to hitch a ride. They are currently listed as a vulnerable species; however, they continue to be hunted in parts of Asia, such as the Philippines.
What we offer …
We offer you a chance to swim and snorkel with these gentle giants of the sea. A truly unforgettable experience that for once in your life you saw and with your own eyes the butanding of Oslob. You will be amaze of how large they are and yet how gentle this beautiful whales in Oslob.
A good article about these Oslob whale sharks can be read here Oslob Whale Sharks.
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