In rare video footage, a male whale shark has been spotted biting at his female partner during courtship. Before now, we knew ...

and "active suction feeding," drawing water into their mouths and expelling it through their gills. Whale sharks are found in warm tropical and subtropical waters worldwide, but very little is ...

Like baleen whales, whale sharks are filter feeders. They can either actively suck food into their mouths or use passive ram filtration - where they slowly swim open-mouthed through patches of food.

They filter out tiny animals like krill and plankton from the seawater, swallowing the food and expelling the water through ...