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International Whale Shark Day

International Whale Shark Day is held on August 30. This event in the third decade of the month August is annual. Help us Help us 
30 August - International Whale Shark Day
Since 2008, every August 30, the world's largest fish is honored thanks to the International Whale Shark Day, which was proclaimed at the II International Whale Shark Conference held in Mexico.
The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is a species of orectolobiform elasmobranch, the only member of the family Rhincodontidae and of the genus Rhincodon; it is the largest extant fish in the world, measuring approximately 12 m in length. The whale shark is a filterfish, unlike most other sharks, feeding primarily on plankton alone, straining food from the water using a special ceding apparatus formed by the gill arcs (only two other sharks, the giant shark and the largemouth shark, have a similar way of feeding). It inhabits warm tropical and subtropical waters. It has been suggested that it has inhabited the Earth for 60 million years. In Mexico it is considered threatened.

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