Movement patterns of juvenile whale sharks tagged at an aggregation site in the Red Sea.

Conservation efforts aimed at the whale shark, Rhincodon typus, remain limited by a lack of basic information on most aspects of its ecology, including global population structure, population sizes and movement patterns. Here we report on the movements of 47 Red Sea whale sharks fitted with three ty...

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Main Authors: Michael L Berumen, Camrin D Braun, Jesse E M Cochran, Gregory B Skomal, Simon R Thorrold
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4116204?pdf=render