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REEF RAYS
• Southern stingrays and manta rays
are cartilaginous, or made completely
of cartilage.
• Southern stingrays are graceful and
active swimmers.
• They devour mollusks and crusta-ceans,
crushing their prey with their
mouths.
• The southern stingray is ovoviviparous
— the pups hatch out of eggs while
still inside the female’s reproductive
system. She then delivers live pups.
• Reef manta rays are close relatives to
the giant manta ray.
• Despite their size, manta rays feed on
some of the smallest organisms in the
water.
• They often jump completely out of
the water to perhaps remove parasites,
as a form of communication or as a
form of play.
THE ULTIMATE
PREDATORS
• Sharks like sand tigers are the apex
predator of a shipwreck reef, feeding
on the animals below them in the
food chain.
• Their ragged teeth are still visible
even when their mouths are closed, but
despite those teeth and vicious appear-ance,
sand tigers are rather docile.
• Their upper body is light brown
to gray colored and gradually fades
to white below. Juveniles have small
yellowish-red or brownish spots
scattered on the rear of their body
and tail that fade with age.
• Sand tigers are the only known
species to gulp air at the surface and
store it in their stomachs to aid in
buoyancy.
• They are also ovoviviparous — or
produce live young from eggs that
hatch within the body. The first pup
to emerge feeds on the embryos of
its siblings. This way only the strong
survive.
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