Whale Sharks of Holbox | JONATHAN BIRD'S BLUE WORLD
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Jonathan travels to Holbox, Mexico in search of the massive whale shark-the world's largest fish. Reaching 50 feet long, these animals grow larger than a school bus, but they are completely harmless since they eat only plankton and small fish. Jonathan gets up close and personal to a mouth the size of a small car in his investigation to discover why so many whale sharks visit Holbox every summer.
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This is an HD upload of a previously posted Season 2 segment.
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Holbox is not your typical tourist destination. Until recently, this sleepy island wasn’t much more than a fishing village.
There are no paved roads, and everyone gets around in golf carts or other non-conventional transportation. There are almost no cars on the island.
The highway here is a stretch of beach where you can hit maybe 20 MPH if you have a fast cart. Downtown, this island has the charm of a place not yet discovered by throngs of tourists.
But everywhere there are signs. Something special has been discovered here. Offshore in the cool waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a giant lurks!
To find the whale sharks, I get up early to meet the boats to take me and the other intrepid snorkelers on the adventure of a lifetime.
These are converted fishing boats. Instead of depleting the ocean of fish, these fishermen are instead making their living taking tourists to swim with the fish. A really big fish.
Using a GPS device to help him find the shark hot spot, the captain takes us about an hour offshore.
Our guide Andreas stands in the bow, with a carefully trained eye on the horizon.
Soon, we pass a pod of dolphins.
We also see manta rays, and large schools of fish feeding in a frenzy.
Soon, he spots what we are looking for-the large fin of a whale shark sticking up out of the water.
As we pull the boat up alongside the shark, I can see its massive mouth open and funneling water in, like a gigantic storm drain. The shark is feeding. But what could it be eating? It’s more than 30 feet long. What could feed such an enormous animal?
To find out, I don my snorkel gear and hop over the side.
The whale shark passes right in front of me. The water is not very clear, and this is where I get my first clue what is going on here.
The sharks have come to this section of the ocean because it is filled with plankton! Whale sharks might be the biggest fish in the sea, but they eat only plankton and small fish.
The word plankton comes from a Greek word meaning drifter, so plankton are drifting organisms.
Early in the morning, when the water is calm, the plankton forms a thick layer near the surface.
He's just surface feeding. What the whale sharks do here is they swim across the surface of the water with their mouths open wide and all that plankton that's sitting right there at the surface gets funneled right into their mouths.
The enormous mouth swallows up huge quantities of water.
The water comes back out through the shark’s gills, but comb-like structures in the gills capture the plankton like an enormous spaghetti strainer. So the whale shark swimming through the water is like a big pool skimmer, filtering the plankton for breakfast. Each shark eats hundreds of pounds of food every hour! It turns out that eating plankton is very efficient for a large animal.
Conditions here around Holbox Island are perfect for plankton in the summer. The water is not as clear as other islands in the area, but these conditions attract a vast number of whale sharks, manta rays and fish-all animals that eat plankton.
The fish attract other predators like dolphins, birds and bigger fish. That’s why Holbox has always been a great fishing area for the locals.
I can’t believe how many sharks are around the boat. I can count as many as ten at a time. I have been to a lot of places around the world to swim with whale sharks, but never anyplace with this many!
Soon however, as the sun gets higher in the sky and the air gets warmer, wind picks up and waves start to form. The plankton layer dissipates, and the sharks dive down deep, out of sight.
My professor (marine environment) just gave us 10 minutes to watch your video. We were talking about micro surface layers.
Best lecture so far!! Don't tell her I already watched this video (twice). 🤫
Thank you Jonathan you made my day! Again!
Gone come back to your videos if the theory of the ocean is just too theoretically (especially in covid times).
See you soon ☺
Thanks!!
I can watch Jonathan for hours and still want more!!!..such an adventure with every video 💓
Christina Lick I totally Agree with ya
Christina Lick dude same.. I love the channel,too!!
Christina Lick I know right!!
I agree
That was beautiful. I didn't know they got so huge. Thanks again Jonathan
I love how you guys reply to viewers! Not many people on UA-cam do that especially at your level! It is so cool to hear from the guys behind my favorite show!
+KaijuCinema We try to keep up on it!
:)
Keep those High Definition videos coming, BlueWorld Crew.
+POV Master We will slowly work through the whole back catalog.
+BlueWorldTV i love your videos, they're so fascinating and informational! :D
+BlueWorldTV I'm gonna work as an aquarist when I'm older my birthday is tommorow I'll be 9
+BlueWorldTV I used to have fears of ocean even though im 11 years old but your videos show me how wonderful the sea creatures and ocean is...I want to be like you when i grow up...thx for your vids
+CALLUM_BRIT I will be an aquariest also like Jonathan...im 11 by the way...I dont knoe why I felt like saying my age
Another very enjoyable segment. Thanks, Jonathan and team!
I love these videos!Jonathan Bird is such a positive guy!Keep up the dives!
+Septimus Heap Thanks!!
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You're such an amazing marine biologist Mr. Bird. Keep on protecting our underwater friends and hope they will stay living free and in the wild!💖👍🐋🦈🐬
Thank you, I will
@@BlueWorldTV I know you will Mr. Bird!👍
The sea can never cease to fascinate me.
I've only just recently found you but you post some wicked stuff man keep all this up ❤️
Great video, thanks!
Love your videos keep up the good work!!!
your videos are so interesting ☺☺☺☺
hi i am 10 and i watch your videos 24/7 you are awesome and creative
Thanks!
Omg is this you because you're awesome
BlueWorldTV spence you do this stuff I want to do it with you
BlueWorldTV your awesome keep up the good work
My Favorite Channel is Jonathan'sBlue World
He says the manta ray is only the size of a car casually I would leave that would be scary
That whale shark is there personal celebrity
This is a giant of a fish, yet a harmless filter feeder. Now imagine a Great White Shark that is the size of a Whale Shark - that would be the Megalodon. Scary!
I love your videos i am 8 i stared to watched your videos when I was 3 thanks for inspiring me I want to be like you
3??? Wow. Thanks for watching!
This show fascinates me!! I love it!! 😊
I love sharks and especially whale sharks as they do not harm us ...
But can I ask a question...
Means everyone has a picture in minds that sharks kills ..But the face u are showing of them is totally different...So is that true that they are dangerous ..I mean i have this doubt that u swim along with them..It's just magical.or just amazing.. I also wanna do research on them or their behavior
hey jonathan i really like ur videos i wanted to suggest if u culd do a video of a killer whale
That place is amazing. I was there for a month.
Sir is so awesome see your videos. Super duper cool.
Thanks for watching! Glad to have you!
There's a meme going about wi either one of these or a basker going "RAWR!!! JK I only eat plankton!!!" Anyway, gorgeous mals & so good to see them getting loved here...
Just found your chanel today, really love it.. sorry my english not good.. love from malaysia..
Hi Jonathan...are u a marine biologist? your videos are very much enjoyable and resourseful...Seeing these videos now my intention is to be a marine zoologist...thank u
I am a student of the ocean, but not a marine biologist.
BlueWorldTV ok
I really want to go scuba diving with you..good luck diving
I love that whale shark!
Happy World Whale Shark Day!
Its so cute
Defendamos y protegamos los mares y océanos
YES
Jonathan where are tiger sharks mostly found
Tropical waters around the world.
Magnificent
Whale Sharks are the Largest living shark
They’re also the largest fish ever
But whale sharks are not the only largest fish and shark in the sea
If you rewind the clock back to the prehistoric times, in the miocene epoch, the largest shark to ever exist is the megalodon
And rewind further back to the jurassic time period, we have the Biggest fish to have ever existed, the Leedsichthys
Whale shark is like a small fry when compared to a Leedsichthys
Now this shark can eat my extra large
Fried chicken
Do a video on killer whales
I wish you can my favorite sea animal: Killer Whale/Orca
My favorite is the thresher shark
unfortunatly for largest 🐟 of all time is extint
no its not and please speak words
Wow beautiful spelling
I have a question about how long did this whole trip last.
+Cole Strathman About a week
Do you think that the whale shark has ever washed up on shore
Yes, they have.
why does it seem like you have a tV channel
+Christian Gaytan We have a TV contract, but not a whole channel.
Dang but that's still awesome
where do you find the whale shark
Optimus Prime: Time to find out. Beachcomber: Oh, dear, Seaspray. You’d better try to catch up with Destiny so we could explain to her about Titan class Scorponok.
the melegidon is bigger than a whale shark
And more extinct too! ;-)
What’s your name
I know more about marine animals than my mom😂 And I just turned 12
OMG SAME!!!!!!!!!! But im 10😂
"But this is just a small one. About the size of a car."
OMG! That is huge!!! =0
The whale sharks look so beautifull!
Well they're usually much bigger
Megalodon: am I joke to you?
Guess again Sherlock. Megalodon was 60 ft
HE’S THICC
This channel is what made me interested in marine life! Thanks Jonathan:)
Glad to hear it!
Yeah
the footage of the animals on the surface was so peaceful and calming, I loved it.
Mr. Bird, you have opened up my eyes to a whole new world. God bless you.
😱
That’s nice to hear
Did you know Jonathan was the one that inspired me to want to become a “ marine biologist
Same
Actually before I found these videos I already wanted to be one but this inspired me even more
I remember watching every single one of these videos as soon as they were released
This show was ultimately nostalgic I think it is one of the best tv shows in history it is so great and I loved it since I was 3 1/2 11/10
I like whale shark😱
This was on Me and My 10 minute younger twin, Sasha And my b-day 3 days after
Our B-day is on Christmas at 5:01am
I also have two older siblings Winter a girl and Maxwell a boy
did you really just travel very far because a youtube comment said you should go there on the previous video? wow
How is the sea there so still
I know right
Jonathan you should try Malta if you do watch out for rays tropical fish great whites coral reefs human sized bas and the national Aqereoum and rarest humpback whales do you think you will do it? 😃
How would you react if it was attacking you I have a big dive tommorow?!
a few of my favorite sea creatures are either mythical or don't even exist or extinct
I like narwhals and whale sharks
Can someone please get this guy a real TV show xD you deserved better brah
+Panhasak Bun It is a real TV show!
oh really? cooool then
Pa?
Yug id ht hg
Nasaan ka
Lmao awkward
Their mouth and fin are seen on surface when eatling plankton!
Dude, you must get a TV show
+NetaGamesMan I have one. It's called Jonathan Bird's Blue World!
+BlueWorldTV in witch channel?
+NetaGamesMan AWE
Hope this place doesn't end up like these other whale shark attractions where the locals feed them dried plankton to keep them close to the land
Max B the oslob whale sharks you mean. yes even i am worried because feeding these gentle giants can alter their behavior to become dependent on human which makes them easy to be hunt by illegal fishers or hurting (or worse kill) them through propelers because these sharks think the bubbles created by propelers are dried shrimps fed by humans
Yobabz Brodchavz I agree with you.
What an absolutely amazing animal and how smart of them to protect them by law. I wonder how many murals there are in Hobash?
I'm glad that the whale shark doesn't eat big things but why does such a big animal eat only small things I know why because the mouth doesn't open that wide so big things won't fit in it
Whale shark is my favourite shark of all time
On the episode when you was showing how to tell a shark male or female was that the female whale shark you showed because look at her stomach she kind of looks pregnant
My favorite fish turned out to boring because it moves so slow and lazy
They are still my favorite fish though
Wow amazing watching from Philippines.
Hi to my favorite channel! I really enjoyed watching all your videos. Stay safe
Thanks so much
Unbelievable how big they are
Hey, there, Destiny. Benny Joseph Feliciano told us about his stop motion project from Transformers. Can I hold your fin?
Name: Destiny. Species: Whale shark. Personality: Kind, funny, helpful, talkative, ecstatic, near-sighted, intelligent, friendly, eccentric, beautiful, sympathetic, clumsy, sweet, and compassionate. Appearance: Slender cerulean whale shark with blue-gray eyes. Alignment: Good. Home: Marine Life Institute (formerly) Great Barrier Reef (currently.) Allies: Dory, Marlin, Jenny, Charlie, Bailey, Nemo, and Hank. Enemies: Motormaster’s truck drivers. Likes: Being fed. Dislikes: Walls, banging her head, and her poor vision. Fate: Escapes from the Institute and helps tutor Mr. Ray’s class. Quote:” Dory? Dory? Dory? Dory! You and I were friends! We were pipe pals! Thank yooouuuuu!” Official bio:” Destiny may be a clumsy swimmer, but she has a big heart. She has a big everything, actually... Whale sharks are the biggest fish in the sea. Destiny resides in the Marine Life Institute where one day an oddly familiar blue tang fish named Dory falls into her pool. Destiny is admittedly embarrassed by her obvious lack of grace, a product of poor eyesight (very near-sighted), but Dory thinks she swims beautifully. And Dory is delighted to learn that her super-sized friend speaks whale, too. Destiny and Dory used to talk through the pipes when they were little.”
I really want to swim with a whaleshark. They are so beautiful and friendly. I would love to have one as a pet if I had the room😂
Great video and now he know how important it is for whale sharks to be in the ocean
Janet Burke nice
Janet Burke ,sv
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The whale shark is one of my favorite animals because people are always calling me big Swoll makes me like big things in the well shark is the biggest fish in the world the blue whale is the biggest animal in the world the orca is the biggest don’t fit in the
Another whale of information on the animals of the ocean. Great work as usual. Wish I could be there doing some of what you do.
I've swam with these amazing animals in Oslob Philippines! They are the most gently animals i've ever seen no matter how big they are. best experience in my life.
Im asking in every video WILL there be a make shark video or a spider crab?!
We have been skunked twice on the Makos. One of these days!!
Thats a fish not a shark whale shark
Sharks are fish
Willow yes they are.
Whale Shark. OMG I’M LIVING IN HEAVEN RIGHT NOW
Do they eat tiny planton like tiny ....fish?
Sometimes fish too, yes.
Can you make a video of hand feeding a whale shark please? I really want to see
How's this
ua-cam.com/video/-N5orSP7S50/v-deo.html
Hey Johnathan! What do you say to this after you say the whale shark is the worlds largest shark
Megalodon: hey Jonathan am I joke to you?
Jonathan, can you make a whale shark video for international whale shark day?
When is international whale shark day? What will they think up next?
It's on August 30.
Totally amazing I love whale sharks I would love to see them live in their natural habitat never gonna happen but wud love to
Why never?
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That's cool Jonathan i love to watch your videos and to see what's next!!!
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7:39 good thing an Adult Whale Shark has nothing to worry about when it comes with predators
The whale shark is soooooooooooooooooooooooo big
whale shark: I’m the biggest fish in the ocean!
megalodon: am I a joke to you
Megalodon: "Oh crap, I'm extinct!"
lol
Beautiful beautiful video.
hey Jonathan!! would you one day make a video about the sawshark??:) did you eve encounter one of them?? Alice
I have only encountered them in an aquarium. They are extremely endangered.
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Is the tail dangerous? You swam pretty close to it. Have you ever been hit by a tail?
+PEENIIS22 Yes, hit by a tail in the Galapagos. ua-cam.com/video/a2uN0Z_U2Qg/v-deo.html
Jonathan!!! Find Species of SNAPPING TURTLES!!! not in the sea.....
And Jonathan, Did you see the little jellyfish? 5:03 look at the video again
super beautiful vidio
Thanks!
Selvi Ashok Hiiiiiiii.selvi
I've never seen eagle rays do that either. Cool video.
Hey Jonathan I am a really big fan of you and it would be a dream to meet you and it is a dream of mine to go scuba diving but I don’t think my dream will come true so plz reach out to me and make my dream come true
Are you sure about that? Whale sharks are harmless? One time I saw a snorkeler annoying a whale shark and the whale shark slapped the snorkeler with it's tail fluke.🐬🐋🐳🐟🐠🐡 🐢