The whale shark
aggregation coincides seasonally and temporally with a multispecies reef-fish spawning aggregation
at a reef promontory, Gladden Spit, at sunset, during the full and last-quarter moon periods of April
and May each year. We report here, for the first time, that whale sharks feed on the freshly released
spawn of cubera snappers Lutjanus cyanopterus and dog snappers L. jocu (Lutjanidae), and have
documented the phenomenon with still and digital video photography of hundreds of feeding events.r