Animals and their Habitats

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Animals and their Habitats

• Whale Shark
• Hadiya Sessions
• 11-17-09

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Physical characteristics

• It has a flattened head which sports a blunt
  snout above its mouth, with short barbels from
  its nostrils.
• Its back and sides are gray to brown with white
  spots. It has pale vertical and horizontal
  stripes, and its belly is white.
• Its two dorsal fins are set rearward on its body,
  which ends in a large dual-lobbed caudal fin (or
  tail).
• The weight is 20.6 tons. The size is 18 to 32.8
  ft.

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Habitats

• It lives in the sea with other kinds of fish.
• It will migrate to the central west coast of
  Australia.
• It prefers warm water.

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Self Protection

• My animal does not need to protect itself because
  no other fish would dare to mess with it .

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Diet

• Its diet is a carnivorous. It mostly eats
  plankton off the bottom of the sea.

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Is your animal nocturnal?

• My animal is half nocturnal because it may sleep
  at night or it may not. It depens on if its
  migrating, but it is mainly not nocturnal.

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Endangered Species

• The whale shark is not listed on the endangered
  species list.
• They are listed as a vulnerable species.
• They are hunted in Asia, Taiwan, and the
  Philippines.

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Catch a free ride?

• Did you know some whale sharks allow swimmers to
  hitch a ride on their back?
• The whale shark is the largest shark and fish in
  the sea.