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Category: fish • golden ray
Posted on: July 9, 2008 9:36 AM, by Benny Bleiman
Every year tens of thousands of golden rays, also known as cow nosed rays, make a biannual migration between Western Florida and the Yucatan Peninsula. They are known to school in groups of 10,000 or more during their exodus. These shots were snapped off the coast of Mexico by Sandra Critelli, an amateur photographer and printed in Britain's Daily Telegraph (more pics can be found by reading the full article).
We're going to need a bigger boat...
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amazing stuff. i love the shot also at the telegraph of the "edge" of the school.
Posted by: neural | July 9, 2008 2:16 PM
That's incredible! I would love to see something like that someday.
Posted by: Zach Miller | July 9, 2008 2:35 PM
That....is epic, awesome, and utterly beautiful. They're like the monarch butterflies of the ocean.
Posted by: Zelly | July 9, 2008 2:46 PM
Dude, we totally posted this A MONTH AGO. Quit riding out coattails and post something original ;p
Posted by: kevin z | July 9, 2008 5:23 PM
I knew I had seen this on your site somewhere, but tried using the search box this morning and it didn't come up. Oh well, lucky no one reads your site.
Posted by: Andrew | July 9, 2008 5:32 PM
Tens of thousands, eh? What majestic abundance! It must be because the Japanese haven't discovered them to be of good eating yet! :-)
Posted by: Hilary Minor | July 10, 2008 5:09 AM
I know I'm just repeating things here, but even though rays are not normally something to which I would gravitate I just found those photos breathtaking and beautiful. Thanks. I know, now back to your regularly scheduled oddities.
Posted by: Liesele | July 10, 2008 8:25 AM
Andrew, I think you should borrow the term "Regularly Scheduled Oddities." (Unless you have already.)
Posted by: Pat | July 10, 2008 4:49 PM
Hilary,
you mean the Japanese haven't discovered they're good for scientific study.
Posted by: Jives | July 10, 2008 4:52 PM
Wow those are amazing photos. The Calgary Zoo, not too far from where I live, had a bunch of cownoses but they almost all died- poisoned as far as I know.
Posted by: Homie Bear | July 10, 2008 11:24 PM
Spectacular!
Posted by: ym | July 14, 2008 4:13 PM
What time of year does this happen?
Posted by: judy withington | July 27, 2008 4:11 PM