Facts You Should Know About Whale Sharks of La Paz

There is much hype and mayhem concerned with whale sharks. If you are going on a whale shark watch you should know that whale sharks are not whales but are sharks.

Here are 5 facts you should know before coming face to face with a whale shark in La Paz, and it will be immensely helpful in keeping yourself alive and gain unparalleled experience of seeing a whale shark in its habitat.

Whale sharks or sharks not whales

1. Whale sharks are not whales but sharks that can grow up to 20 meters and weigh over 20 tons, they are filter feeders and are considered harmless mostly as they are called “Gentle Giant”.
2. For whale sharks eating is labour intense. They feed by filtering the waters since they cannot bite or chew. Each hour they filter about 6000 litres of sea waters using their gills. Though they have wide spanned mouth measuring 4 feet they only have tiny teeth that can be used to eat only small sea life like shrimps
3. It is researched that whale sharks face difficulty in surviving as only 10% of the population is able to sustain life and survive for long years. When they do survive their difficulties in infancy they are able to live up to 150 years.
4. They are annoyingly slow clocking just 3 mph while migrating to other parts of world. They mostly like warm environment except Mediterranean Sea.
5. They are under threat of extinction like other rare fish lives. Some of the whale sharks are accidentally caught by fishing nets. Some of them are hunted for their meat. Their fins are conserved a delicacy in Japan and other Asian countries.

The Baja whale shark is an endangered species so authorities have tightened the rules to protect them from human. Any kind of waste dumped in to the water is a danger to whale shark because it filter-feeds sea waters.

Any plastic or artificially processed items can prove to be a danger to their lives. You can book a whale shark tour with Baja Whale Sharks, who provide Baja Charters for the purpose.

Contact them on phone numbers US Phone: 214-974-0501 (English Only) and Mexico Phones: (52) 624-128-5666 (Spanish, English, German) to book your whale shark tours in La Paz.