Tuesday, 16 September 2008

School of Stingrays Migration...

Have anyone seen mass stingrays migration? We have barbecued Stingrays, cooked stingrays in sauces but how many have seen school of stingrays migrating?

Kai, myself and Daddy have seen live stingray in aquarium and also at Underworld World in Sentosa but we cannot fathom how many is a school of stingray migrating till another mum who is also homeschooling in Singapore forward the articles and photographs to me.

We were caught dumbfounded looking at the number of creatures migrating in mass and the whole ocean looks shining in gold with the sunray reflected on those migrating creatures.


Read about it and looks at the photographs







Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast of Mexico

The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures made one of their biannual mass migrations to more agreeable waters.

Gliding silently beneath the waves they turned vast areas of blue water to gold off the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula .

Sandra Critelli, an amateur photographer, stumbled across the phenomenon while looking for whale sharks.

She said: 'It was an unreal image, very difficult to describe. The surface of the water was covered by warm and different shades of gold and looked like a bed of autumn leaves gently moved by the wind.



'It's hard to say exactly how many there were but in the range of a few thousand.



'We were surrounded by them without seeing the edge of the school and we could see many under the water surface too.
'I feel very fortunate I was there in the right place at the right time to experienced nature at his best.'



Measuring up to 7ft (2.1 meters) from wing-tip to wing-tip, Golden rays are also more prosaically known as cow nose rays.



They have long, pointed pectoral fins that separate into two lobes in front of their high-domed heads and give them a cow-like appearance.
Despite having poisonous stingers they are known to be shy and non-thr eatening when in large schools.


The population in the Gulf of Mexico migrates, in schools of as many as 10,000, clockwise from western Florida to the Yucatan


After looking through the email and explain to Kai. We look at another link on the MailOnline.

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