Satellite tracking of manta rays highlights challenges to their conservation.

We describe the real-time movements of the last of the marine mega-vertebrate taxa to be satellite tracked - the giant manta ray (or devil fish, Manta birostris), the world's largest ray at over 6 m disc width. Almost nothing is known about manta ray movements and their environmental preference...

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Main Authors: Rachel T Graham, Matthew J Witt, Dan W Castellanos, Francisco Remolina, Sara Maxwell, Brendan J Godley, Lucy A Hawkes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3349638?pdf=render