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The gill slits of the manta ray are visible on its ventral side. It respires like fish do, taking in water through its mouth and then letting it pass over its gills and then exit through the gill slits. Use the link to the Wikipedia article and check out the pictures. Or use the other link to a picture posted at Geocities showing a 5,000 pound creature taken from the ocean.

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The cartilage inside a manta ray resembles a disk shape, with fine filaments radiating from a middle a bit like the spokes of a bike wheel. A ripple passes through it much like they do through other fish's fins.

What's most remarkable is the manta ray's skin is covered in very tough hard 'denticles'. They are hexagon or pentagon shaped, and raised, and feel very slightly sharp or rough to the touch. The turbulence they generate makes a kind of "slipperiness envelope" around the ray. Rays (and sharks too) can move forwards with less effort than if they were perfectly smooth!

Really big rays (and most of the enormous sharks today such as the whale shark) are plankton feeders. They don't need to catch and bite prey.

Mostly letting their weight pull them down, they fall with just a little flapping. Their big funnel-shaped mouths catch very tiny things up to shrimp size. Then they swim upwards slowly.

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