Social distancing may be new for humans, not so much for whale sharks

May 07, 2020 | Hayley Rutger

In 2007 scientists from Mote Marine Laboratory and Ch’ooj Ajauil AC placed a location-tracking tag on a whale shark nicknamed "Rio Lady" and documented her epic migration spanning close to 5,000 miles. Now, Rio Lady is back in the scientific spotlight, being tracked by our colleagues at Nova Southeastern...

Close up of the head and mouth of the whale shark feeding at the ocean surface. The mouth is wide open with pilot fish swimming underneath. The eye looks directly at the camera.

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Mote scientists tag two whale sharks off southwest Florida

June 20, 2018 | mote

Written by Stephanie Hagan Thanks to whale shark sightings reported by the public off the southwest Florida coast in early June, scientists from Mote Marine Laboratory located five of the polka-dotted, filter-feeding giants and tagged two of them with tracking devices on the afternoon of June 14. All...