Hi all,
I thought it'd be great if people could post the abstracts of new whale shark papers on the forum as they become available online. It takes a long time for some 'online early' papers to appear on databases, and I'd be overjoyed to hear about new papers as soon as they become available. Presumably others are also in a similar position.
I'll start this off, and hope it becomes a trend. I recently came across David Rowat et al.'s very interesting new paper on neonate and juvenile whale sharks on the 'online first' section of the Environmental Biology of Fishes website (
http://www.springerlink.com/content/w200xq8t25167331/?p=aca010dee4e14cf78a03aba6d102eb5e&pi=9); here's the abstract:
New records of neonatal and juvenile whale sharks ( Rhincodon typus ) from the Indian Ocean
D. Rowat, M. A. Gore, B. B. Baloch, Z. Islam, E. Ahmad, Q. M. Ali, R. M. Culloch, S. Hameed, S. A. Hasnain, B. Hussain, S. Kiani, J. Siddiqui, R. F. Ormond, N. Henn and M. Khan
Abstract The finding of neonatal whale sharks from Northern Indian Ocean waters off of Pakistan and Bangladesh and the description of several very small whale sharks from around Seychelles during the last few years are reported. These findings are discussed in relation to published reports of growth rates, the areas of occurrence and segregation by sex, and the behaviour of very young whale sharks, which are key factors in their conservation management.
Environmental Biology of Fishes, DOI: 10.1007/s10641-007-9280-z
Cheers,
Simon.
