Moment whale shark swims up to fishing boat to beg fishermen for food

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The enormous endangered animal appeared to fix its gaze on tubs of fish being carried to a local market in Borneo

A group of fisherman have shared footage of a huge whale shark swimming up to their boat to ask for food.

They were surprised to see the whale shark, an endangered species which usually takes no notice of humans poking its nose above the surface. Fisherman Iswandi Rahman said: ‘The whale [shark] was not aggressive at all. We thought we should give it some of our catch because we had extra.Whale sharks are classed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species due to trawling, vessel collisions and other factors related to fishing.

 

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