Is the whale shark the same as the killer whale?

Question

my brother was just wandering

Answer 1

The whale shark is a shark, but is not as aggressive to humans as it's cousins. The killer whale is also not aggressive to humans by nature, but is a whale

Answer 2

no, killer whales are like the seaworld atraction. they are mammals.

whale sharks are sharks but have whale characteristics like eating plankton.

Answer 3

No, they are most definitely not. The killer whale is more the same to a human than it is the whale shark. The only thing they possibly have alike is that they both live in water.

Orcas (killer whales) are warm-blooded mammals, who give birth to live young, nurse them, and hardly leave them in their lifetime. Their anatomy is completely differant as well. They breathe at the surface.

The shark however, is a fish, the largest one in the sea. They eat only small plankton and krill. They breathe in water, filtering air in with their gills. They lay eggs, and then that is the end of that.

Answer 4

No. Different species. The whale shark is a shark and is therefore a fish. The killer whale is a mammal.

Whale shark: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_shark

Killer Whale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca

Answer 5

Nope. The Whale Shark is a type of fish, and it doesn't have teeth. The Killer Whale is also known as the Orca Whale, and is considered a whale, which is a mammal, and it does have teeth.