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SUBMITTER: Legaspi C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7813242 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Legaspi Christine C Miranda Joni J Labaja Jessica J Snow Sally S Ponzo Alessandro A Araujo Gonzalo G
Royal Society open science 20201216 12
The whale shark is the world's largest fish that forms predictable aggregations across its range, many of which support tourism industries. The largest non-captive provisioned whale shark destination globally is at Oslob, Philippines, where more than 500 000 tourists visit yearly. There, the sharks are provisioned daily, year-round, allowing the human-shark interaction in nearshore waters. We used in-water behavioural observations of whale sharks between 2015 and 2017 to understand the relations ...[more]