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Whale sharks - gentle giants!
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3-10-2008 5:40 AM
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Instead, they sift the water for krill.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22490452/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>Whale sharks, which grow to weigh as much as two or three adult elephants, are thriving in waters off Western Australia, a new study of underwater images suggests. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22490452/"><P class="textBodyBlack"><SPAN id="byLine"></SPAN>Up to 65 feet long (20 meters), the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.livescience.com/bestimg/index.php?url=sharkweek_whaleshark_00.jpg&cat=sharkweek">whale shark</A>, Rhincodon typus, is the world's largest living fish species — and also the largest shark. 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