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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Journal of Fish Biology<BR>Volume 74 Issue 3, Pages
706 - 714<BR>Published Online: 3 Feb 2009<BR><BR><FONT size=4>Deep-diving
behaviour of a whale shark Rhincodon typus </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT size=4>during long-distance movement in the
western Indian Ocean</FONT><BR>J. M. Brunnschweiler*†, H. Baensch‡, S. J.
Pierce§ D. W. Sims‖¶ <BR> * Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich,
Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH–8057 Zurich, Switzerland , ‡ The Open
University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, U.K. , § Manta Ray
& Whale Shark Research Centre, Tofo Beach, Mozambique , ‖ Marine
Biological Association of the United Kingdom, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill,
Plymouth PL1 2PB, U.K. and ¶ Marine Biology and Ecology Research
Centre, School of Biological Sciences, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus,
Plymouth PL4 8AA, U.K. <BR>Correspondence to †Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, Raemistrasse 101, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland. Tel.:
+41 44 632 2071; fax: +41 44 362 5085; email: <A
href="mailto:juerg@gluecklich.net">juerg@gluecklich.net</A> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>ABSTRACT</STRONG><BR>A whale shark
Rhincodon typus satellite tagged off the coast of Mozambique showed a highly
directional movement across the Mozambique Channel and around the southern tip
of Madagascar, a minimum distance of 1200 km in 87 days. Dives to depths well
into the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones (1286 m maximum depth) were recorded
in a bathymetrically non-constraining habitat. The water temperature range
recorded during the fish's movement was 3·4–29·9°
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