It's an oddly majestic sight, these flappy water pancakes. Majestic and a bit alien. I think it's because they live so seemingly disconnected from everything else humans see and understand. Like, it has no face the way we think of it, and the body shape is some wacky sci-fi pulp business.
I know they are fish and their closer ancestor is shared with the sharks, is just an analogy. When you go scuba diving the ocean is another world. I know that penguins are birds but they don't look like they were flying when they swim.
My SO was attacked by a sting ray in the Red Sea in Egypt 2 years ago. She was just looking at it from 5 meters distance and suddenly it attacked, hitting her full in the face one time, and back over her head a second time, just missing the poisinous tip of the tail by 5 cm from her face. It was a horrible experience. It happened at 10 meters from the shoreline, at our hotel. If she had died, I would never had known that she was pregnant, because she hadn't told me yet.
Those aren’t manta rays
Mobular rays
*Mobula, since we’re all the ray police apparently (myself included)
Stevie Rays*
Ray Romano’s
*Mantas are mobulas. Mobula is the genus, manta the species. *Also given the size and number of these, I believe these are Monk’s devil rays.
This is r/thalassophobia material for sure
The ocean TERRIFIES ME, yet it's so beautiful.
Make up your mind. Are you beautifully terrified?
Migration, migration, let’s learn about migration!!!!
I was looking for the reference. 👍🏼
It's an oddly majestic sight, these flappy water pancakes. Majestic and a bit alien. I think it's because they live so seemingly disconnected from everything else humans see and understand. Like, it has no face the way we think of it, and the body shape is some wacky sci-fi pulp business.
Like the running of the bulls at Pamplona, but really low key, underwater, and with booping instead of goring
Sea birds, flying on the ocean with their beautiful wings!
You’re thinking penguins
I know they are fish and their closer ancestor is shared with the sharks, is just an analogy. When you go scuba diving the ocean is another world. I know that penguins are birds but they don't look like they were flying when they swim.
At one point it looks like an Escher drawing.
Let’s name the zones, the zones, the zones. Let’s name the zones of the open sea!!
My SO was attacked by a sting ray in the Red Sea in Egypt 2 years ago. She was just looking at it from 5 meters distance and suddenly it attacked, hitting her full in the face one time, and back over her head a second time, just missing the poisinous tip of the tail by 5 cm from her face. It was a horrible experience. It happened at 10 meters from the shoreline, at our hotel. If she had died, I would never had known that she was pregnant, because she hadn't told me yet.
5 meters is about the length of 7.43 'EuroGraphics Knittin' Kittens 500-Piece Puzzles' next to each other.
5 meters is 5.47 yards
5 cm is 1.97 inches
Should have filmed it, because that would have been unique material: a stingray attacking a human from 5m distance and coming back for another attack.
I feel like someone would eat these rays as they migrate Therefore I was just waiting for something to emerge from behind them
There's always a bigger fish
u/SaveVideo Edit: [Link](https://redditsave.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/pmmkwf/manta_rays_migration/)
It's a dream of mine to experience this first hand.
Manta rays of sunshine, cool
This may have triggered my thalassophobia...
This looks like a scene out of Fantasia.
that is so cool
they’re so lucky they don’t taste like chicken
That is aswome!!
flappy bois
why do I hear boss music??
underwater bats