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The whale shark, like the world's second largest fish, the basking shark, is a filter feeder. In order to eat, the beast juts out its formidably sized jaws and passively filters everything in its path. The mechanism is theorized to be a technique called “cross-flow filtration,” similar to some bony fish and baleen whales.

As the biggest fish in the ocean, achieving lengths of 40 feet or more, whale sharks have a huge menu from which to pick. Luckily for most ocean occupants—and us!— their most loved feast is tiny fish. They scoop these little plants and creatures up, alongside any little fish that happen to be near, with their enormous expanding mouths while swimming near the water's surface.

Albeit enormous, whale sharks are submissive fish and at times enable swimmers to hitch a ride. They are as of now recorded as a helpless animal groups; be that as it may, they keep on being chased in parts of Asia, for example, the Philippines.