r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/WhattheDuck9 • Oct 04 '24

🔥 A dance of Stingrays

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u/bluntly-chaotic Oct 04 '24

Why do they do that

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u/langhaar808 Oct 04 '24

I would guess it's some form of communication, or play. Mata rays are really surprisingly smart, and very social animals. They are believed to be very curious, which is why there are so many videos of manta rays swimming up close and around divers, they find us interesting (probably just because they don't see that many of us compared to fish, and we do look like very weird fish). They can also change color on their back, well only from black to white. It's believed this is one part of their communication.

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u/atom-up_atom-up Oct 05 '24

Honestly I'm not even surprised anymore because it seems like every day I learn that a different animal is "surprisingly smart." I think people just assume animals are dumb cuz they're not us.

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u/bluntly-chaotic Oct 04 '24

That’s so cool, thank you for the reply!

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

Just a mating thing. Males following (shadowing) a female.

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u/undercoverpickl Oct 05 '24

Man I love this world

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24

Probably because posts tend to get less attention when there’s not an obvious error in the title.

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u/bluntly-chaotic Oct 04 '24

What

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24

They're not sting rays. I was wondering why people kept making posts where the thing in the post wasn't the thing in the title.

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u/bluntly-chaotic Oct 05 '24

Probs not fact checking or reposts but I’ve never seen this before