Whale sharks found to slow down to allow researchers to scrape off parasites

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May 16, 2023, 4:31 pm201 pts
A trio of marine biologists from The University of Western Australia has found that some whale sharks will slow their swimming to allow researchers to scrape collections of copepods from sensitive areas. In their study, reported in the journal Fishes, Brendon Osorio, Grzegorz Skrzypek and Mark Meekan noticed…

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