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The 19 pages that link to Whale shark, each with the reason it gives.

• Filter feedingBroader topic: It filters plankton and small fish while swimming or pumping water across its gills.

• SharkBroader topic: It shows that sharks include enormous plankton feeders, not only hunters.

• SpiracleBroader topic: Its spiracles are small, illustrating that the opening varies greatly among sharks.

• ChondrichthyesBroader topic: Its enormous size contrasts with a diet based on filtering tiny prey.

• Gill rakersBroader topic: Its feeding system offers a distinct shark example of filtering through the gill region.

• Ram ventilationBroader topic: This large shark ventilates while swimming and filtering water through its mouth.

• ElasmobranchiiBroader topic: Its size and plankton-feeding lifestyle demonstrate the diversity of shark ecology.

• Basking sharkCompared with: It shares plankton feeding with the basking shark but occupies warmer waters.

• SumbawaRelated: Seasonal sightings near Saleh Bay have become a wildlife tourism draw.

• Ram feedingBroader topic: It uses ram filtration while swimming, though it can also feed by suction.

• Nurse sharkRelated: It is another orectolobiform shark, despite its very different size and feeding strategy.

• Carpet sharkBroader topic: This pelagic giant is an unusual carpet shark that feeds on plankton rather than seabed prey.

• Megamouth sharkCompared with: It filters food like megamouth but is far larger and more frequently observed.

• WobbegongCompared with: Unlike this enormous open-water filter feeder, wobbegongs are smaller bottom-dwelling ambush predators.

• Eagle rayRelated: Both are large, wide-ranging cartilaginous fishes, but the whale shark is a shark rather than a ray.

• MegalodonCompared with: It can rival megalodon in length estimates but feeds in a radically different way.

• Revillagigedo IslandsRelated: Whale sharks occur in the waters around the islands.

• Thresher sharkCompared with: Its filter-feeding contrasts with thresher sharks’ active pursuit of fish.

• Malpelo IslandRelated: Whale sharks are among the large pelagic animals recorded in the sanctuary.