Rio Lady’s Big Adventure One big lady reveals the mysteries of her underwater journey BY GEORGE C. SCHELLENGER
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ne of the best ways to stay in “live” constant contact with the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation, and stay up to date on research from the Guy Harvey Research Institute, is to follow GHRITracking.org. For the past several issues of this magazine, we’ve been providing snapshots of some of the creatures we’ve been tracking. For this issue, we wanted to present Rio Lady. She represents whale sharks (the largest fish in the sea) and some very impressive migration tracking. This animal represents one of the longest tracked creatures on the planet — more than 20,000 miles. As you look at the incredible 4-year, 17,000-mile track on the next two pages, you really understand how international these animals are. Spending part of her time in the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, you notice all the
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