Reef Manta Rays Don't Flee Monsoons, They Plunge Hundreds of Feet

Reef Manta Rays Don't Flee Monsoons, They Plunge Hundreds of Feet

The post Reef Manta Rays Don’t Flee Monsoons, They Plunge Hundreds of Feet appeared first on A-Z Animals.For giant reef manta rays that call the shallow waters of Papua New Guinea home, radical weather is nothing new. The island’s location north of Australia, surrounded by large bodies of water, exposes it to ocean conditions that can change in an instant. For a long time, scientists had assumed manta rays simply headed for calmer seas when mons…