Manta and devil rays are filter-feeding elasmobranchs that are found circumglobally in
tropical and subtropical waters. Although relatively understudied for most of the Twentieth …

The Philippines is home to the second largest known population of whale sharks in the
world. The species is listed as endangered due to continued population declines in the Indo …

Documentation of scarring patterns on marine megafauna provides a means of quantifying
the risk of anthropogenic threats that occur in the open ocean, such as ship strike. This study …

In this paper, we study the Leslie–Gower predator–prey model with Michaelis–Menten type
prey harvesting. Our main focus is on the cyclicity of diverse limit periodic sets, including a …

Wound healing is important for marine taxa such as elasmobranchs, which can incur a
range of natural and anthropogenic wounds throughout their life history. There is evidence …

Age and growth data are central to management or conservation strategies for any species.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that male whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) grow to …

There is global awareness that many species of elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) have life
history characteristics that make them susceptible to overexploitation. The study of these …

A reliable aggregation of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) takes place in waters surrounding
the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena from December to May each year, peaking in …

Conservation and management strategies for endangered and threatened species require
accurate estimates of demographic parameters such as age and growth. The whale shark …

The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is an endangered species with a declining global
population. The South Ari Atoll Marine Protected Area (SAMPA), Maldives, is one of few …