GLOBAL WHALE SHARK PROGRAM.
WHALE SHARK
PUBLICATIONS.
Our peer-reviewed research on the world's largest fish.
2026
- Integrating migratory connectivity data into the conservation of Australian sharks and rays
- Conservation status and life history of whale shark (Rhincodon typus) in the Indian Ocean
- Methods for tagging whale sharks: insights into performance and best practices with a focus on clamp attachments
- No model fits all: Dynamic ensemble species distribution model reveals seasonal patterns of essential habitat use by ocean giants in the southwest Pacific
- Whale sharks do it deeper: Extension of known depth range for Rhincodon typus from satellite telemetry data in the Coral Sea, Australia
2025
- Vulnerability of marine megafauna to global at-sea anthropogenic threats
- A 15-year time series shows major declines in whale sharks in southern Mozambique
- The needle in the haystack: Uncovering the first whale shark (Rhincodon typus) aggregation in the Coral Sea
- Whale shark residency and small-scale movements around oil and gas platforms in Qatar
- Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets
- Trophic and feeding ecology of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) using bulk stable isotope analysis
- Rhincodon typus (whale shark)
2024
2023
- Emergent community architecture despite distinct diversity in the global whale shark (Rhincodon typus) epidermal microbiome
- Underwater ultrasonography and blood sampling provide the first observations of reproductive biology in free-swimming whale sharks
- Interactions between marine megafauna and plastic pollution in Southeast Asia
- Plastic pollution and marine megafauna: Recent advances and future directions
- Limiting global ship strikes on whale sharks: understanding an increasing threat to the world’s largest fish
2022
- Fatty acid profiles of more than 470 marine species from the Southern Hemisphere
- Improving sightings-derived residency estimation for whale shark aggregations: A novel metric applied to a global data set
- Citizen science reveals the population structure and seasonal presence of whale sharks in the Gulf of Thailand
- Global collision-risk hotspots of marine traffic and the world’s largest fish, the whale shark
- The need for long-term population monitoring of the world’s largest fish
- Citizen science as a key tool in whale shark conservation
- Pieces in a global puzzle: Population genetics at two whale shark aggregations in the western Indian Ocean
2021
- Regional variation in anthropogenic threats to Indian Ocean whale sharks
- Population structure, residency, and abundance of whale sharks in the coastal waters off Nosy Be, north-western Madagascar
- Economic value and public perceptions of whale shark tourism in Nosy Be, Madagascar
- Microplastics in fecal samples of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) and from surface water in the Philippines
- Rhincodon typus (Green Status assessment)
- Whale sharks: Biology, ecology, & conservation
2020
2019
2018
- Limited latitudinal ranging of juvenile whale sharks in the Western Indian Ocean suggests the existence of regional management units
- Satellite tracking of juvenile whale sharks in the Sulu and Bohol Seas, Philippines
- Movements and habitat use of satellite-tagged whale sharks off western Madagascar
- Satellite tagging highlights the importance of productive Mozambican coastal waters to the ecology and conservation of whale sharks
2017
- iDNA at Sea: Recovery of whale shark (Rhincodon typus) mitochondrial DNA sequences from the whale shark copepod (Pandarus rhincodonicus) confirms global population structure
- Undersea constellations: The global biology of an endangered marine megavertebrate further informed through citizen science
- Some like it hot: Repeat migration and residency of whale sharks within an extreme natural environment
- Long-term assessment of whale shark population demography and connectivity using photo-identification in the Western Atlantic Ocean
- Oceanic adults, coastal juveniles: Tracking the habitat use of whale sharks off the Pacific coast of Mexico
2016
2015
- Laser photogrammetry improves size and demographic estimates for whale sharks
- Acoustic telemetry reveals cryptic residency of whale sharks
- Whale sharks target dense prey patches of sergestid shrimp off Tanzania
- Sizing ocean giants: Patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna
- Monitoring the effects of tourism on whale shark Rhincodon typus behaviour in Mozambique
2014
- Genetic structure of populations of whale sharks among ocean basins and evidence for their historic rise and recent decline
- The complete mitogenome of the whale shark parasitic copepod Pandarus rhincodonicus Norman, Newbound & Knott (Crustacea; Siphonostomatoida; Pandaridae) – a new gene order for the copepoda
2013
- Diet of whale sharks Rhincodon typus inferred from stomach content and signature fatty acid analyses
- Unusually high levels of n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids in whale sharks and reef manta rays
- Population structure and residency of whale sharks Rhincodon typus at Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras
- Trends in sightings and environmental influences on a coastal aggregation of manta rays and whale sharks
- Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, aggregate around offshore platforms in Qatari waters of the Arabian Gulf to feed on fish spawn