{"id":199831,"date":"2019-04-15T11:41:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T09:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/?p=199831"},"modified":"2019-04-15T11:41:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T09:41:55","slug":"whale-shark-beaches-on-camps-bay-beach-removed-with-difficulty-by-city-of-cape-town-and-the-nsri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/whale-shark-beaches-on-camps-bay-beach-removed-with-difficulty-by-city-of-cape-town-and-the-nsri\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale Shark beaches on Camps Bay beach, removed with difficulty by City of Cape Town and the NSRI!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"On Saturday afternoon a Whale Shark beached on Camps Bay Beach, rough seas and high swells complicating the operation on Sunday to remove the Whale Shark, which died when attempts to return it to the ocean failed. <\/p>\n

On Facebook I read about the Whale Shark on Camps Bay Beach, but it was dark at that time already, so I took a walk on Sunday morning, to check it out. A street vendor Ruedi kindly shared the photographs he had taken of the carcass on Saturday, showing a large hole on the one side of the Whale Shark, caused by a group of \u2018African people\u2019 arriving in a minibus cutting out a chunk of flesh to take home to eat it, he shared. I estimate the beached Whale Shark to have been 2 meters in length.<\/p>\n

When I walked to the beach for the first time on Sunday, I saw the beached Whale Shark. When I returned a second time,\"\" the rough ocean and huge swells had drawn the carcass back into the ocean. A caterpillar of the City of Cape Town and the NSRI managed to remove the carcass, a difficult operation, it was reported.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia provides the following information about Whale Sharks: <\/p>\n

\u2018The whale shark<\/b> (Rhincodon typus) is a slow-moving, filter-feeding<\/a> carpet shark<\/a> and the largest known extant<\/a> fish species<\/a>. The largest confirmed individual had a length of 18.8 m (62 ft) [8]<\/a><\/sup> The whale shark holds many records for size in the animal kingdom, most notably being by far the largest living nonmammalian vertebrate<\/a>. It is the sole member of the genus Rhincodon<\/b> and the only extant member of the family Rhincodontidae<\/b>, which belongs to the subclass Elasmobranchii<\/a> in the class Chondrichthyes<\/a>. Before 1984 it was classified as Rhiniodon into Rhinodontidae.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Whale shark<\/p>\n
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Temporal range: 28\u20130 <\/p>\n

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\"Similan<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Whale shark in the Andaman Sea around Similan Islands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Whaleshark<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Size compared to an average human<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Scientific classification<\/a>\"edit\"<\/a><\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Kingdom:<\/td>\nAnimalia<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Phylum:<\/td>\nChordata<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Class:<\/td>\nChondrichthyes<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Order:<\/td>\nOrectolobiformes<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Family:<\/td>\nRhincodontidae<\/a>
\nJ. P. M\u00fcller<\/a> and Henle<\/a>, 1839[7]<\/a><\/sup>[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Genus:<\/td>\nRhincodon<\/i><\/a>
\nA. Smith<\/a>, 1829[6]<\/a><\/sup>[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Species:<\/td>\n\n
R. typus<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Binomial name<\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Rhincodon typus<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
\"Cypron-Range<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Range of whale shark<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Synonyms<\/a><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
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