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References
Briggs, H. (2018, May 17). Madagascar emerges as whale shark hotspot. BBC. https://bbc.com/news/science-environment-44151782
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2023, October 20). whale shark. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/animal/whale-shark
Dove, A. D. M., & Pierce, S. J. (Eds.). (2022). Whale Sharks: Biology, Ecology, and Conservation. CRC Press.
If you have a serious interest in whale sharks, I highly recommend this book. It's not cheap, but it's essentially The Book on whale sharks out there right now and this site would not have been possible without the work of Drs. Dove and Pierce.
You can learn more about it here.
McClain, C. R., Balk, M. A., Benfield, M. C., Branch, T. A., Chen, C., Cosgrove, J., Dove, A. D., Gaskins, L., Helm, R. R., Hochberg, F. G., Lee, F. B., Marshall, A., McMurray, S. E., Schanche, C., Stone, S. N., & Thaler, A. D. (2015). Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna. PeerJ, 3, e715. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.715
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