Jemstown, St. Helena – Whale sharks should not be tough to find scientists. They are lots – they are the largest fish in the sea and probably the largest fish that ever survive. They are found in warm oceans around the world. According to the shark standards, they are slow swimming.
But they can be very personal in any way: scientists don’t know where they are companions and they have never observed it before.
Although they have some clue until the end. Scientists suspect that magic could occur in the surrounding water around St. Helena, a remote island of the South Atlantic Ocean, where Napoleon died once in Bonaparte. It is the only place in the world where adult males and female whales regularly gather in almost equal numbers – and the food does not seem to be the main attraction.
Keniki Andrews, director of the St. Helena Trust’s maritime conservation project, says he has seen male sharks chasing women, shaking their pectoral wings and “showing himself” in female sharks, similar to the rituals of other sharks, including white white.
“What we saw here is the classic shark courtship behavior,” he said. “Until today we have not seen successful cooperation, but this is the proof (whale shark) is in our water by trying these behaviors.”
The whale sharks usually measure up to 12 to 18 meters (39 to 59 feet), weighing up to 14 tons and the plankton itter; All sharks have a unique pattern of white spots on their top.
Scientists say they need to know where the sharks are accompanied by and giving birth so that they can protect those territories, perhaps creating marine reserves where threats like fishing are banned. Whale sharks have been nominated as endangered for the conservation of international union nature; The group says that their population is “largely decreased”.
Simon Pieres, who studied whale sharks worldwide, said he photographed suspicious confrontation in the female sharks of St. Helena, perhaps when the male shark could hold their pectoral wings and move them into the position of confluence.
Australia has also reported the behavior of suspicious whale sharks in Australia, and the sharks have also gathered in places like Mexico, the Arabian Sea and the Maldives, but it seems to be the amount of male harassment of immature women, the executive director of the Pierre, Charity Marine Megapown Foundation. This is not the same in St. Helena where adult men and adult females are present.
St. Helena’s fisheries experts also provided his eyewitness accounts that they had said that whale sharks were an example. Officials touched the abdomen with the abdomen and described a lot of injuries on the surface of the water by two huge sharks, but those philosophy were not captured in the video and was not considered as adequate evidence by scientists.
Atlanta’s Georgia Aquarium research scientist Cameron Perry Island is working to connect the camera tag to investigate what the whale sharks are doing, but some technical disadvantages: sharks can dive in 2,5 meters (6,561 feet) and the tags cannot tole.
“We have some very tantalizing and teasing videos.” We have two sharks to communicate and then our camera falls, “Perry said.
Perry is not sure what the sharks are doing at the bottom of the surface, but new technology is developing hope that this question will help answer the question. “This is just a number of games in terms of how many times we can get into the water”
Earlier in St. Helena, Alastire Dove said that he had seen the male whale shark rotating their clears, or the adult female sharks, including rotating the sex organs, which he said that “the equivalent of an uplifting”.
“These sexual behaviors are very rare in whale sharks,” now the CEO of the Museum of Science says Dove & History of Jacksonville, Florida.
“This is one of the biggest, answer questions about the largest fish in the world,” said Dove.
The Andrews of the St. Helena Trust said that he was hopeful that anyone would be able to capture the video evidence of the whale shark, but he acknowledged that the presence of researchers and tagging efforts could change the practice of sharks in unknowingly.
“Perhaps they don’t want to see,” he said. “Perhaps, like everyone else, they need privacy.”
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