Overview Data Request – Rhincodon typus

Hi @jason and @Anastasia,

I’m leading the new whale shark re-assessment for the IUCN Red List at the moment, and keep getting timed-out on broad-scale individual searches on the species.

Specifically, the information I’d like to use in the assessment:

  • Number of individual whale sharks identified to date
  • Number of individual whale sharks identified to date in the Atlantic Ocean
  • Number of individual whale sharks identified to date in the Indo-Pacific (i.e. everywhere else)
  • And, stretch goal, the number of identified (1) female and (2) male whale sharks globally, as a ‘quick’ overview of how biased the dataset might be in terms of demographics.

If it’s possible to get the Excel file of all Individual whale sharks I can work with that to extract the remaining data – I just can’t load the results.

Thanks!
Simon.

No problem! I’ll send you an email shortly.

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