From fear to fascination: Decoding the depths and distances travelled by the world’s largest fish Female whale sharks are conspicuous in their absence from aggregation sites such as Ningaloo Reef. A unique satellite tracking data set is showing us where they are so that we can begin to understand ...

A blog post I wrote for @csiro.bsky.social about my PhD research and new paper on whale shark movements 😀

Read the full paper here link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Satellite tracking reveals sex-specific differences in the geographical and vertical habitat use of Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, in the Eastern Indian ocean - Marine Biology Satellite tagging of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) has typically focused on juvenile males which dominate coastal aggregation sites, with limited data on the movements of females. We…

Satellite tracking reveals sex-specific differences in the geographical and vertical habitat use of Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, in the Eastern Indian ocean link.springer.com/article/10.1...