Brid

Researchers in Belize have tracked the sharks as they dive almost a kilometre in search of food, and find shoals of spawning fish in order to eat the eggs.

The sharks grow to 20m in length, and are listed as vulnerable to extinction.

The researchers believe their findings will help to plan tourism operations around whale sharks in a way which does not harm the creatures themselves.

These new, unprecedented insights into the whale shark's world come from the Belize Barrier Reef, the world's second largest barrier reef system and a site given UN World Heritage status.[via]

This entry was posted on September 25, 2005 at 12:35 PM. You can skip to the end and leave a response.