Satellite tagging Mozambican whale sharks

MMF Principal Scientist Chris Rohner has led a groundbreaking study into preferred whale shark habitats using ‘robot sharks’ and comparing their digital movements to the movements of real whale sharks. Chris and his team found that the real whale sharks preferred the coastal waters of southern Mozambique (between Zavora, Tofo and Pomene), where the water was cooler, richer in chlorophyll-a and shallower than in the semi-randomly moving robot sharks' habitat.