To be a ram breather means that they which means they have to ram water through their gills and keep swimming to stay alive. The ancestors of the whale shark used a different kind of breathing it is called buccal pumping. Buccal pumping is when they pumped all the water through their mouth and over their gills. Skates and rays which are the whale sharks cousins also breathe this way. That means that they belong to the group called Chondrichthyes. Whale sharks have a distinct pattern of polka dots, and lines on them. These patterns help the shark stand out from all the other sea creatures. Every whale shark has different spots in different places. There spots and lines are like fingerprints with us. No two sharks have the same patterns of spots and
To be a ram breather means that they which means they have to ram water through their gills and keep swimming to stay alive. The ancestors of the whale shark used a different kind of breathing it is called buccal pumping. Buccal pumping is when they pumped all the water through their mouth and over their gills. Skates and rays which are the whale sharks cousins also breathe this way. That means that they belong to the group called Chondrichthyes. Whale sharks have a distinct pattern of polka dots, and lines on them. These patterns help the shark stand out from all the other sea creatures. Every whale shark has different spots in different places. There spots and lines are like fingerprints with us. No two sharks have the same patterns of spots and