Marine traffic is increasing globally yet collisions with endangered megafauna such as
whales, sea turtles, and planktivorous sharks go largely undetected or unreported …

Wildlife tourism is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the tourism industry, where feeding
animals is often applied to increase the probability of up-close encounters. However, directly …

Population genetic data can provide valuable information on the demography of a species.
For rare and elusive marine megafauna, samples for generating the data are traditionally …

Little is known about the reproductive ecology of the whale shark Rhincodon typus. On 15
March 2020, a free‐swimming neonate whale shark was found in the shallow, coastal …

The study of age and growth is a fundamental component of fisheries science with important
applications in fisheries management, conservation, and branches of ecology. This chapter …

Rhincodon typus, or the whale shark, is the largest extant fish in the world and is classified
as endangered on the IUCN's Red List. Due to their enormous size and conservation status …

Abstract Between September and December, whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) aggregate in
the coastal waters off Nosy Be, an island in north‐western Madagascar. Swimming with …

Photographic identification (photo ID) is an established method that is used to count animals
and track individuals' movements. This method performs well with some species of …

Whale sharks are the world's largest extant fish, and potentially the largest fish species that
has ever lived (Chapter 1). The largest whale sharks on record were around 18–20 m in …

Following an estimated decline of more than 50% across their global distribution, whale
sharks were downgraded to globally Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened …