Video of a man riding on endangered whale shark leaves netizens divided | Watch

A foot of a swimmer leaping onboard a gigantic Whale Shark for a sail across Red Sea has stunned internet. Shared on Twitter by a user named Abdullah-Al-Alouni,  45 seconds clip with over 15k views shows a Saudi man, identified by Gulf media as Abu Bi, jumping atop an endangered acrobatic Whale Shark from a small boat after he spots mammal swimming in vicinity. man can be seen sailing across vast blue sea in clip, originally shared on Snapchat. While some users expressed astonishment at man’s “cour” to hitch a ride on mammoth fish, several ors criticized him for sitting on an “endangered species”. 

In video, a human’s voice can be heard speaking in Arabic which roughly translates to a person warning man about Whale Shark. “Careful, it can consume you,” person reportedly said. However, according to marine experts, Whale Sharks are friendly creatures towards humans. In fact, fish diets on planktons. However, scientists and marine conservationists forbid humans from interacting with rare fish as y are on brink of extinction. “ acrobat whale - is an endangered species of shark. A user informed in comments, fish’s “aver length is 13 meters while its weight is 21 tons. It is one of most common s of fish spre in Red Sea, especially near Saudi coast. This shark does t pose any danger to humans, and deaths or attacks on humans have been recorded.”

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'Severely declining' in Red Sea

clip has earned a backlash as experts at International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) list Whale Shark’s population in Red Sea hot spot as “severely declining”. It mentions a population dip of 50 per cent for past three generations, meaning, species remain only two classifications away from extinction, as per reports. area in Red Sea where Whale Sharks are spotted also witnesses conservation efforts by several organizations worldwide. In fact, as per study in journal PLOS ONE, many of se whale sharks return in Red Sea years after years and ir critical sustenance requires “nil human intrusions”. 

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