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=**Welcome to my wiki page about whale sharks** = =  The whale Shark is the biggest shark in the ocean. The name might = seem like it is half whale half shark but it is only a shark. They can grow up to 39 feet (12 meters) long. The biggest one ever recorded was 45 feet long. The smallest one ever recorded was only 15 inches long.

 what they eat Whale sharks might be the biggest shark in the ocean but they only eat plankton and krill. They might seem fierce from there massive size but they don't eat people and some people even swim with them. (See in a picture above) Defence/Offence The whale sharks offence is not that good because all it will do is open it's mouth and try to scare the animal attacking it away(like an adult great white shark). It's defense is A little more interesting because when it's offense doesn't work if the predator bites the whale shark it will have trouble tearing through its flesh because of the whale sharks thick skin. Where they live  Most whale sharks live where the light brown is. The reason they live here is because it has warmer water than most other places in the ocean and whale sharks love to live in warm water like (70° to 77 ° F.  Resources Prevost, John F.; Whale Sharks; 1996; Abdo and Daughters [|animals.nationalgeographic.com]