Will 'Honeymooner' Whale Sharks Mate?

The world's largest aquarium, which is in Atlanta, got a little bit bigger over the weekend with the delivery of two new whale sharks, the largest fish in the sea.

As CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann reports, scientists will be observing the four giants as visitors to The Georgia Aquarium. Among the questions: Will romance bloom among the "Honeymooners"?

The names the four were given by aquarium staffers reinvent the classic 1950s sitcom, "The Honeymooners," but, said Strassmann, these stars dwarf even Jackie Gleason.

New arrivals Alice and Trixie join Ralph and Norton.

"It's phenomenal," said the aquarium's director of husbandry, Tim Binder. "There's no place in the world where you see two males and two females together."

Commercial fishermen trapped the two female whale sharks off the coast of Taiwan and, for the charter flight to Atlanta, there must have been a whale of an excess baggage charge, Strassmann joked.

Alice and Trixie are only juveniles. Trixie, the bigger of the two, is 15-feet long. But some adults reach 60 feet, and weigh up to 34 tons.

"You don't manhandle a shark that big. You don't. They tell us what they want. So, we want to work with them and get them comfortable working with us," aquarium head vet Howard Krum said.

The tank has more than six million gallons of water, and is big enough for two more whale sharks, if the four get along.

Little is known about whale sharks, Strassmann noted, and glimpses of them in the wild are rare.

So, this is a great chance to better understand their growth, feeding and — perhaps most of all — breeding.

"If somebody asked you, when will they act like honeymooners, what you would say?" Strassmann asked Binder.

"We don't know," Binder responded. "Now, is that from a mating perspective, or are they going to argue, we're not sure," he kidded, playing off "Honeymooners" themes.

If life imitates art, Strassmann concluded, "with Alice and Trixie around, life's about to change for Ralph and Norton."

The only other whale sharks on display are in Asia.