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I took this picture while in La Paz last week. When underwater with the whale, I noticed what looks to be a ray shadowing the big whale just under it's head. The ray (or whatever it was) was calmly flapping its wings and holding position. My first thought was that it was a manta. But, then it would have to be upside down because mantas are black on the top and white on the bottom, right? Any animal experts want to take a guess at what this is? It's clearly not part of the whale, and the whale was clearly not bothered by it because the whale's baby was nearby. Is this a normal behaviour for rays? Do killer whales eat rays? What do you guys think. In any case, it's a cool picture if not a technically good one. Quite an amazing experience to be in the water with wild orcas.
BTW, mods, I didn't know what the best forum was for this post, so feel free to move it if I guessed wrong, thanks.
Mike
EDIT: Moved to photobucket instead of kodakgallery, link should work!
I took this picture while in La Paz last week. When underwater with the whale, I noticed what looks to be a ray shadowing the big whale just under it's head. The ray (or whatever it was) was calmly flapping its wings and holding position. My first thought was that it was a manta. But, then it would have to be upside down because mantas are black on the top and white on the bottom, right? Any animal experts want to take a guess at what this is? It's clearly not part of the whale, and the whale was clearly not bothered by it because the whale's baby was nearby. Is this a normal behaviour for rays? Do killer whales eat rays? What do you guys think. In any case, it's a cool picture if not a technically good one. Quite an amazing experience to be in the water with wild orcas.
BTW, mods, I didn't know what the best forum was for this post, so feel free to move it if I guessed wrong, thanks.
Mike
EDIT: Moved to photobucket instead of kodakgallery, link should work!