Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
MIT-WHOI grad student Jaida Elcock plays tag with a whale shark! 🤙🏽🦈
To study the behavior of the largest fish in the ocean, Elcock attached a temporary "spot tag" that records the shark's location as it swims. After the tag popped off, Elcock played "hide and seek" to retrieve the biologger data!
Elcock is studying whale shark migration patterns to understand why these filter-feeding fish are coming to the New England continental shelf— and what they're eating out there.
🦈 Dive deeper into whale shark research: go.whoi.edu/whale-shark-tag
MIT-WHOI grad student Jaida Elcock plays tag with a whale shark! 🤙🏽🦈
To study the behavior of the largest fish in the ocean, Elcock attached a temporary "spot tag" that records the shark's location as it swims. After the tag popped off, Elcock played "hide and seek" to retrieve the biologger data!
Elcock is studying whale shark migration patterns to understand why these filter-feeding fish are coming to the New England continental shelf— and what they're eating out there.
🦈 Dive deeper into whale shark research: go.whoi.edu/whale-shark-tag
