Not a bad wee video on the Whale Sharks "The same weight as three elephants, and the same size as a city-bus, the whale shark is the largest fish in the world. In the third part of our ‘Philippine Life’ series we headed to Donsol, in the south of Luzon Island, in search of these gentle giants. World Wildlife Foundation (WWF)expert, David N. David, has the lucky job of interacting with the butanding, as the whale sharks are known here, on a daily basis. For him, every interaction is a unique, almost healing, experience: “They are gentle and when you swim with them you can forget the outside world.” Despite their colossal size, whale sharks are fish, not mammals. And whilst their enormous frames may give the impression they eat anything and everything, in actuality, they like nothing more than a platter of fine plankton. As Butanding Interaction Officer, Elmer Quizon, explains: “Although they have a large mouth, more or less two meters wide depending on their length, they don’t have the capability to swallow big objects even like us because their throat is so narrow.”" http://www.euronews.com/2013/06/04/the-philippines-underwater-world/
