Information regarding whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, is sparse, in terms of migratory patterns, age of sexual maturity, growth patterns, and breeding grounds. Spread throughout the oceans, whale sharks are rarely observed, except for in a few seasonal aggregation locations, which are presumed to have the necessary resources for survival, such as coral, plankton, and fish. Besides this, it is known that the population ranges from 27 000 to 476 000 (Berumen et al., 2014) and that these sharks may migrate up to 13 000 km (Berumen et al., 2014). This variation in population comes from the limited migratory information regarding R. typus.
Conservation efforts have been made towards R. typus, having been marked as vulnerable in the year 2000 by the
Conservation efforts have been made towards R. typus, having been marked as vulnerable in the year 2000 by the