Curious About the Pre-Mating Habits of Whale Sharks? Neither Did I, But Researchers Were Intrigued and Captured It on Film!

I like to think of myself as the inquisitive type, but even I wasn't curious enough to wonder how whale sharks get it on. But some scientists did and now we've got video of what they do beforehand.

I hadn't noticed until now, but the courtship rituals of whale sharks have remained one of the intriguing enigmas in the realm of sharks. I'm not entirely sure why this is the case. I assumed they would engage in similar behaviors as other shark species, just on a larger scale.

Fortunately, we've got scientists who wanted to know the answer, and they weren't willing to wait for a Shark Week documentary fore the details, they had to do the dirty work.

According to Phys.org, some scientists have been hanging around Ningaloo Reef off the coast of Australia which, from the sounds of it, is like the Whale Shark world's Studio 54. All the breakthroughs in the steaming hot world of whale shark sex are coming out of Ningaloo Reef.

During a recent expedition, researchers observed what they thought was a male whale shark attempting to impress a female. However, rather than allowing him some privacy to charm her, they began filming the scene, with one eager scientist swimming right alongside him