Is a whale shark bigger than a whale?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
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🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Whale sharks are big. They’re the biggest fish in the whole ocean! Have you ever wondered how they got so big? We asked shark expert Amani Webber-Schultz to help us find out.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:04.0 | Answering those questions that make you go, um, um, um, um, moment of, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Moment of Uum comes to you from APM Studios. Happy Earth Day. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Anna Goldfield and I'm celebrating the occasion in this submarine by having a moment of underwater. |
| 0:37.0 | We're voyaging through the Pacific Ocean to visit with the biggest fish around these parts, the whale shark. |
| 0:43.4 | What a name, right? |
| 0:45.2 | Is it a whale? |
| 0:46.3 | Is it a shark? |
| 0:47.3 | Is it half whale, half shark? |
| 0:49.3 | Ooh, wait, that's the whale shark find Finder Alert. There's one now. Oh, wow. Look at the size of that guy. |
| 0:58.0 | I have so many questions, and our listeners do too, like this one. |
| 1:02.0 | My name is Teddy from Hinsdale, Illinois, |
| 1:06.0 | and my question is, is a wheel shaft bigger than a wheel? |
| 1:11.0 | Bye-bye. My name is Teze. |
| 1:14.0 | My name is Amani Weber Schultz. |
| 1:16.0 | I am a PhD student and I study sharks. |
| 1:19.6 | Whale sharks grow up to a maximum of 40 feet, but their average length is between 18 and 33 feet, |
| 1:29.0 | which for a visual reference is about the size of a school bus. |
| 1:33.2 | Well, sharks when they're born, they're not born that size, right? |
| 1:38.2 | They're born live from their mother in the same way that human babies are. |
| 1:42.5 | And they are only about 20 inches? |
| 1:45.6 | Like they're not huge. |
| 1:46.9 | So something that large, right, |
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