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2015, Theo Tait, ‘Don't wear yum-yum yellow’, London Review of Books, volume 34, number 15:
The best-protected species are the big, peaceful filter feeders, the basking shark and particularly the whale shark, with its photogenic polka dots and mysterious long-range migration patterns.
