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TO many it may be a quite new and strange fact that the Basking Shark, almost the largest fish now living, is to be commonly met with at certain seasons around the western part of the British Islands. The fine specimens recently added to the zoological collections of the British Museum and the Royal Dublin Society have excited some wonder; but the popular mind, while it associates sharks with tropical seas and coral reefs, seems as yet hardly to have taken in the fact that if it wants to see about the biggest of all sharks in small shoals, playfully gambolling, it need wander no farther than to the Atlantic coast of Ireland. There, towards the end of April, and often all through May, these Basking Sharks will be met with. They have even been counted off Tory Island in shoals of from sixty to a hundred, basking in the bright morning suns of June.
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WRIGHT, E. The Basking Shark . Nature 14, 313–314 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014313a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/014313a0