Research Paper On Stingrays

Hey there, did you know there are seventy-five different species of stingrays? That's a lot! Sting Rays are also closely related to sharks. The manta rays are the biggest species yet. They can reach up to seven feet wide and a length of fourteen feet long. Their diet is crustaceans, planktons, and small fish. The manta rays like staying just above the seabed to get cleaned. They also have the largest brain of any sea creature, so they probably make even the average dolphin jealous. Manta rays mate about every year, but they only give birth to one or two manta rays each time. However, their very slow reproduction rate makes them very vulnerable due to overfishing. The manta rays are sometimes seen leaping out of the water. Nobody is completely …show more content…
They can also weigh over thousands! As all this is found out by scientists. They could even live up to seventy years old or even older. The great white shark actually doesn't prefer eating us humans, they mostly eat a wide variety of fish, such as seals, sea otters and even the lovely dolphins we all love. The females are even bigger than the males. They have massive sharp teeth, and its teeth can change throughout the years. The great white has an impeccable sense of smell, they could smell a single drop of blood in one hundred liters of water. Its amazing sense of smell can help it catch its prey if an animal is hurt or even five miles away in the ocean, it would probably find and eat it. As sometimes it seems as though the great white shark is solitary, it can travel with one, or more sharks, but they like to keep small groups. The great white shark is vulnerable, due to overfishing. people also use their teeth for souvenirs and or …show more content…
With this type of dolphin, its lifespan is twenty to forty years. It weighs a thousand and one hundred pounds. It isn't the fastest dolphin ever, it's actually pretty slow. Did you know they can stay up to fifteen-twenty minutes under water, but they typically rise to breathe through their blowhole about every two-three times per a single minute They can also have up to eighty-one hundred cone-shaped teeth. They can communicate with other bottlenose dolphins using their unique whistling, squeaks, and body language like bumping their heads or slapping their tails on the surface of the water. Their diet includes fish, squid, and crustaceans. Echolocation helps these dolphins in many ways, it helps them find prey, it helps them find other dolphins. The gestation period for dolphins usually lasts about twelve months. they have only one calf, sometimes twins but that's extremely rare after the calf is born its feeds on its mother for eighteen or even eight years! And it continues to stay with its mother for seven years after weaning. Being so intelligent they can even interact with humans. They are also prey to