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With eight million gallons of water, the Georgia Aquarium exhibits 100,000 animals in 500 species. The stars of the show are the beluga whales, which normally swim among icebergs in the Arctic, and the whale sharks, the largest fish in the world.

Whale Sharks Are the Big Guys at Georgia Aquarium

Because they are not mammals, whale sharks technically are not whales, though you wouldn’t know it from their size. They average 18 to 32 feet in length, though some have been reported as large as 60 feet. The longest to be measured with any accuracy came in at 40 feet, 7 inches.

Despite their girth, females Alice and Trixie and males Yushan and Taroko find plenty of room to roam in their 6.33-million-gallon tank in Atlanta, the biggest aquarium habitat in the world and the only one outside Asia where whale sharks are displayed. Like all whale sharks, their mouths are huge, up to 4 feet across, and they feed by swimming open-mouthed through swarms of small fish and plankton.

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