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Manta Rays

Dr. Robert Rubin

12-8-22

Dr. Robert Rubin is the founder and director of the Pacific manta Ray research group

which conducts field, research and the subtropical Pacific. He says we know more about the

ocean than we do about outer space. There are two new species of whales that we don't know

anything about but now we know that they're out there. The first sharks appeared 400 million

years ago and they were fairly good size 67,819 more and had shearing teeth. Manta rays are

very large in size is surprising that a 100-foot whale like a blue whale feeds on these little tiny

guys. A manta ray has a tag on its back that gives off signals picked up by underwater receivers.

The mantra pea brain is the largest brain of all fish brains and it's five times larger than our brain

for an animal the size of a fish. It's covered with blood vessels the blood is running an Anti

parallel that a heater, this is a brain heater. Look at a group of fish that have come together to

create a vortex of water that pushes plankton's small microscopic piece to the edge of the vortex.

Mantis brains are five times bigger than a normal animal of that size just evolution. We're

speculating that it allows them to swim with greater precision. These larger brains may help them

navigate by picking up electrical and magnetic fields off the bottom of the sea. There are

salamanders living on the tops of Redwood trees and mantas living off the sea floor.
 Watching the whole thing was kind of boring because it felt like it went by really slowly.

But I got a lot of information out of it. Personally, I would’ve preferred to just read an article

because I feel more relaxed. Listening to the same voice for over an hour is really frustrating and

annoying to me. Sitting in this uncomfortable chair with a room full of people while watching a

video I have no interest in whatsoever makes me feel nauseous, I don’t know how to explain the

feeling exactly. Still, once I stand up and walk out of this room I will feel much better. I think

that they should make more STEM presentations so that students will have a real interest in all of

the ones I saw as options that looked like a bore. The only STEM option that seemed like it'd be

an okay experience was the field trip they offered because you wouldn't be on the same campus

that you’re on every day. You’d get to go out and experience something new which seems not

bad. But sitting down for an hour watching a very very boring video is so frustrating. See if this

video was a movie or a topic like outer space or children or cancer it’d be interesting and I

wouldn’t mind sitting through an hour and a half of someone talking. See like let’s say “Bill

Nye” he makes his videos educational and fun. He switches stuff up including children and

makes the video interesting to sit through and watch, I wouldn’t mind watching him give a

lecture on something about science.

The University of California, San Diego has discovered the world's first known manta ray

farm. This site is part of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Adult manta rays

are easy to spot and divers can see them in many places. But in a conundrum that has long

baffled scientists, juveniles rarely swim openly in defined areas during the four to five years
before they reach adulthood. He had his first success when he saw a manta ray. He then sees

more juvenile manta rays and decides, with the help of NOAA researchers, that he happened to

find a nursery. Manta rays were seen in July 2015 at Flower Garden Banks National Marine

Sanctuary on the Gulf of Mexico. Juveniles were mainly found in areas where the seabed slopes

towards deeper waters. "I think they eat certain types of zooplankton there and then move to the

surface that we saw," Stewart told the San Diego Union-Tribune. So they might hang out at the

bank. “We knew very little about these hatchlings because we had seen them so rarely . I can

safely say that just the wait is an amazing experience." Stewart said.