Funding for this research was provided by:
The Thresher Shark Research and Conservation Project
Discovery Communications
Article History
Received: 26 July 2019
Accepted: 28 February 2020
First Online: 7 April 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interests.
: The research presented in this paper complies with the guidelines from the directives 2010/63/EU of the European parliament and of the Council of 22nd September 2010 on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes. All of the fieldwork was undertaken with the permission of the Governor of the Province of Cebu and adhered to the Philippine ‘Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act’.