Rays

MANTA RAYS ARE CARNIVORS.

nineteen hundred thousand



which is over 9000

They have gills. They take in water and separate the oxygen from the water.

hidden under the sand and in tropical coastal waters

sharks eat them

Stingrays do not have legs... some people have been asking because of this video:

http://www.maniacworld.com/dancing-stingray.html

Those seen in the video are called clampers.

Claspers are modifications of the pelvic fins and located on the inner margin of the pelvic fins. They are used to transfer sperm to the female during mating. Females do not have claspers.

source: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/education/questions/RayBiology.html#states

Well...according yo my calculations...The Crocodile hunter was a great example of a manta ray defending themselves...to find more information research it on the internet...

R.I.P Steve Irwin.

Geez people! THE MANTA RAY HAS NO STING!!!!!! it cant hurt anyone like that! i supose they defend themselves by jumping on top of them (they do jump outta the water, but noone really knows why). Steve Irwin was killed by some other STINGray (they are actually a different species, you know!)

you walk on it and it stings you duhhh ya stupidsss!!

Nope. Definitely not nocturnal. Hope I helped!

Mainly sharks, but killer whales (orca) too occasionally.

The entire surface of the body, also the inner surface of the coelenteron can sting; however, stinging cells are located mostly on tentacles and on oral arms.

Manta rays, as well as sharks, are members of a group of fish called elasmobronchs. This means that their entire skeleton is made of cartilage. Elasmobranchs are vertebrates (have a backbone -- made of cartilage).

Manta Rays lack a stinger in their tale, therefore they do not sting.

but from stories I've heard they can bite.

well sharks are not very smart, they have bad eye site but have the best sense of smell than all fish. example: you cut your foot on a sharp rock, its starts bleeding a shark may smell it 10000 miles away in the ocean. when sharks eat us or bite us they don't mean to, they possibly think your a seal because sharks think our blood tastes very bad when the swallow it they throw it up again. they think your a seal because your flopping your legs and arms everywhere so sharks are not that smart

Stingrays love the ocean floor. It's where they spend most of their life. Why? It's where they hunt and live. Sting rays especially like sand and muddy bottoms. They live pretty deep down, too. They can be as far down as 91 meters and as high as 22 meters.

They also like rocky coral reefs, such as the ones you can find in the Caribbean.

although mata rays have tails, they are NOT barbs, they are not poiseness nor electrical

Sting rays give birth to live young

It isn't. A stingray is a cartilaginous fish and thus a vertebrate.

Jawless fish are included in subphylum Vertebrata, but most jawless fish do not have whole vertebrae. Hagfish, for instance, do not have vertebrae at all, and lampreys have only reduced vertebrae. So, no, most jawless fish are not vertebrates.

I'm not sure about all species, but many can be, including the giant freshwater stingray in Thailand. South American stingrays are hunted by the natives as a food source.

I fried some and ate it yesterday. I was wonderful, little like shark.

I have never heard of people poaching manatees; mainly the problem is motor boats accidentally cutting them with their motors or people harassing them. If anyone were to poach them, I'd say it would be because they are endangered, and their skin would be very rare and probably valuable in the black market.

Due to the size of manta rays, their only predators are large sharks.

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