Whale Shark Traveling 54,000 Kilometers Is Thought To Have Set The Record For The Longest Shark Movement Ever Recorded

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Scientists discovered the record beat by a whale shark monitored by satellite transmitters in his swimsuit for almost 10 years

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The whale sharks are large and solitary animals when they are in the ocean, but meet annually at certain locations around the world. It has been recorded that a whale shark that nothing in the waters of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico has travelled 54,700 kilometers in 10 years, thus becoming the largest record of displacement of any shark. The animal in question is a male with 8 meters of length called Milo, which, in the last decade, has …

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A male whale shark named Milo was tracked by scientists with five consecutive tags, revealing his impressive movements.