If you said whale shark, well done.

如果你的回答是鲸鲨，那就答对了。

Great white shark, whale shark, megamouth shark or tiger shark?

大白鲨、鲸鲨、巨嘴鲨还是虎鲨?

Despite its name, the whale shark is not a mammal.

尽管名字叫鲸鲨，但它并不是哺乳动物。

Whale sharks can grow up to 20 meters long.

鲸鲨可以长到20米长。

It's called the whale shark. And, as the name implies, it's huge.

它被称为鲸鲨。顾名思义，它体型巨大。

Meekan suggested the study's findings were important for saving whale sharks.

米肯认为，这项研究对挽救鲸鲨至关重要。

Whale sharks have a brownish-grayish color on the back and sides with white spots.

鲸鲨的背部和侧面呈灰褐色，有白色斑点。

The only animals on earth more massive than whale sharks are whales.

世界上唯一一种比鲸鲨大的动物就是鲸鱼。

That whether we can identify individual whale sharks by their spot patterns.

他们设想，是否能通过其身上的斑点图案来识别出鲸鲨个体。

And we're not talking about those friendly nurse sharks or whale sharks, these are great whites.

这些鲨鱼可不是友好的铰口鲨或者鲸鲨，它们可是真正的大白鲨。

At 230 ft we meet whale sharks — the largest known fish species, weighing up to 60 tons.

在 230 英尺处，我们遇到了鲸鲨——已知最大的鱼类物种，重达 60 吨。

I just -- I mean, you could walk over the backs of mantas and whale sharks.

我的意思是，你可以从螳螂和鲸鲨的背上走过。

The largest whale shark to be measured was more than 41 feet or 12 meters long.

至今测量过最大的鲸鲨长度超过41英尺，即12米长。

But citizen scientists are helping Dove and other whale shark experts get a fuller picture of this marine creature.

但是，公民科学家正在帮助德夫和其他鲸鲨专家更全面地了解这种海洋生物。

I've swam with whale sharks on thousands of occasions but I still get a buzz every time I go out.

我已经和鲸鲨一起游过好几千次泳了，但每次上岸耳边都会有嗡嗡声。

Whale sharks can be found in warm and tropical waters around the world.

鲸鲨分布在世界热带和温带水域。

Structures in the gills act like strainers, catching anything solid for the whale shark to swallow.

鳃的结构像过滤器一样，为鲸鲨留住固体食物，然后将其一并吞下。

The wild book for whale shark is an online database that encourages members of the public to be citizen scientists.

鲸鲨野生图书是一个鼓励公众成为大众科学家的在线数据库。

There's a whale shark that might swim a little further, but it doesn't have to come up for air, he said.

有一种鲸鲨可能游得稍微更远些，但这类鲸鲨是不需要浮上水面来呼吸空气的，他如是说道。

Alistair Dove, an expert on the biology of whale sharks and vice president of research and conservation at Georgia Aquarium.

鲸鲨生物学专家、乔治亚水族馆研究与保护所副主席阿利斯泰尔·德夫说到。