Whale Shark Feeding (IMAGE)

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Whale Shark Feeding

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Whale sharks are filter feeders, eating plankton, fish eggs, krill, crab larvae as well as small squid and fish that enter their large mouths. They cannot digest plastic garbage.

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Kevan Mantell

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