Is a whale shark bigger than a whale?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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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. Do you have an ocean-sized question sloshing around in your brain? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll SEA what we can find! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:06.2	Answering those questions that make you go, um,
0:08.8	Um, Moment of Um, Comes to you from Eum. Moment of Um, um, um, comes to you from APM Studios. Happy Earth Day.
0:28.4	Um.
0:30.3	I'm Anna Goldfield, and I'm celebrating the occasion in this submarine by having a moment of
0:35.7	underwater. We're voyaging through the Pacific Ocean to visit with the biggest fish around these parts, the whale shark.
0:43.3	What a name, right? Is it a whale? Is it a shark? Is it half whale, half shark?
0:49.3	Oh, wait, that's the whale shark finder alert. There's one now.
0:53.3	Oh, wow. Look at the whale shark finder alert. There's one now.
0:55.6	Oh, wow.
0:57.9	Look at the size of that guy.
0:59.8	I have so many questions.
1:02.0	And our listeners do too, like this one.
1:05.8	My name is Teddy from Hinsdale, Illinois.
1:11.6	And my question is, is the whale shark bigger than a whale?
1:13.4	Bye, bye, my name is Teddy.
1:15.8	My name is Amani Weber Schultz. I am a PhD student and I study sharks.
1:21.0	Whale sharks grow up to a maximum of 40 feet, but their average length is between 18 and 33 feet, which for a visual
1:30.7	reference is about the size of a school bus. Whale sharks, when they're born, they're not
1:36.4	born that size, right? They're born live from their mother in the same way that human babies
1:41.5	are. And they are only about 20 inches. Like, they're not
1:46.3	huge. So something that large, right, starts out really tiny, which is crazy, for one.
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