What do Whale Sharks Eat?
Like all sharks, the Whale Shark 300 rows of tiny tiny teeth. However, it never uses its teeth to eat, since it eats only microscopic plankton, krill, algae, and other tiny tiny creatures that float into its wide-open mouth. When I say wide, I mean very wide! When it’s slurping up a gulp of krill, it opens up a 1.5 metre (5 foot) wide yawn. The whale shark is a shark, not a whale. It belongs to a family of sharks called the Carpet Sharks. There are only 32 known species of Carpet Shark. They get their name from their unusual patterns of colour. Since the whale shark is a Carpet shark, it follows that as well as being the world’s largest fish , • The world’s largest Carpet Shark is the Whale Shark, • The world’s largest Shark is the Whale Shark • The world’s largest Cartilaginous fish is the Whale Shark, However, after that, the whale shark steps aside in the record books, to the world’s largest animal and vertebrate, the Blue Whale (which is a whale!). The Scientific Name for the Whale
Like all sharks, the Whale Shark 300 rows of tiny tiny teeth. However, it never uses its teeth to eat, since it eats only microscopic plankton, krill, algae, and other tiny tiny creatures that float into its wide-open mouth. When I say wide, I mean very wide! When it’s slurping up a gulp of krill, it opens up a 1.5 metre (5 foot) wide yawn. The whale shark is a shark, not a whale. It belongs to a family of sharks called the Carpet Sharks. There are only 32 known species of Carpet Shark. They get their name from their unusual patterns of colour. Since the whale shark is a Carpet shark, it follows that as well as being the world’s largest fish , • The world’s largest Carpet Shark is the Whale Shark, • The world’s largest Shark is the Whale Shark • The world’s largest Cartilaginous fish is the Whale Shark, However, after that, the whale shark steps aside in the record books, to the world’s largest animal and vertebrate, the Blue Whale (which is a whale!). The Scientific Name for the Whale
