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Despite their immense size, these gentle giants are filter feeders, primarily consuming plankton, small fish, and other tiny organisms by swimming with their mouths open to filter food from the water.
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Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Particularly appealing is Andrii, a gentle giant who found his niche working with animals after years of homelessness and addiction.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 8 Jan. 2025
Later, after seeing how much fulfillment Iceland, the gentle giant renting her parents’ house, gets out of his relationship with his dog, Sam decides to pour all of her longing for connection into adopting Pepper, an adorable Pomeranian at the local shelter, but someone else gets there first.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
Whale sharks—gentle giants bigger than school buses—glide through the depths from March and April and October to December, while the Halliburton wreck sits ever-waiting, and another site offers radiant coral reef.
—Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2024
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Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Particularly appealing is Andrii, a gentle giant who found his niche working with animals after years of homelessness and addiction.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 8 Jan. 2025
Later, after seeing how much fulfillment Iceland, the gentle giant renting her parents’ house, gets out of his relationship with his dog, Sam decides to pour all of her longing for connection into adopting Pepper, an adorable Pomeranian at the local shelter, but someone else gets there first.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
Whale sharks—gentle giants bigger than school buses—glide through the depths from March and April and October to December, while the Halliburton wreck sits ever-waiting, and another site offers radiant coral reef.
—Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Gentle giant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gentle%20giant. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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