So no need to worry about getting swallowed up by that gaping mouth. Whale sharks swim slowly with their large mouth open, sifting through the water for plankton, small shrimp, and small fish.

“While all the small nehu were being drawn to the surface from all the predators, the whale shark was coming in and using its massive mouth to come up to the surface, open it, and then the ...

A massive species of endangered shark ... their mouths open to collect food, and "active suction feeding," drawing water into their mouths and expelling it through their gills. Whale sharks ...

Despite their ecological importance, sharks face ... whale sharks are filter feeders, primarily consuming plankton, small fish, and other microscopic organisms by swimming with their mouths wide ...

But because of how whale sharks feed — by swimming mouth-open through swarms of zooplankton — “everyone though it was just accidental ingestion,” Meekan says. Carnivores typically can’t ...