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This video, provided by National Geographic, shows a community of fish traveling with the shark. It was taken from a camera attached to the back of a whale shark. On a number of occasions, we noticed that the whale shark was accompanied by an entourage of smaller fishes. Perhaps they viewed the big shark as a moving island in the featureless ocean. (no audio)

 

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