Amazing Aerial Drone Footage Of Leaping Mobula Rays
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- Опубликовано: 25 май 2016
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SOARING over two metres above the water, you would be forgiven for thinking these winged wonders are a type of bird - but they are actually flying mobula rays. Captured on camera by zoologist and wildlife photographer Mark Carwardine, the rays, known to local fisherman as ’flying tortillas’, measure just over three feet in width. Carwardine encountered the giant rays demonstrating their acrobatic skills by bursting out of the water with their wings outstretched off the East coast of Baja, Mexico. He said: “I spend every winter running whale-watching trips in Baja California, Mexico - it’s one of my favourite places on the planet - and, on my most recent trip, we saw something quite extraordinary.
Videographer / director: Mark Carwardine
Producer: Crystal Chung, Ellie Winstanley
Editor: Joshua Douglas
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I'm going to go with the theory that they do it for fun bc the idea of rays jumping out the water to have fun is the cutest thing ever
Steve Irwin's worst nightmare!
Steve Irwin wasn't decapitated by a rogue flying Mobula Ray.
TITANSPIRIT
He was stabbed in the heart by a ray though.
It was also a joke.
-5 for taste but +15 for humor so perfect 10.
LOL!!!!! Good one - SI would've found it funny, for sure
1:26 pause looks like it could be a big ray they're trying to form
wow thats huge
Why am i only learning about this now. Wtf David Attenborough you've been holding out on me.
You should watch blue planet 2 if you haven’t already
Awesome sight. I have never seen a ray fly out of water. Thank you for posting. :)
Those photographs are amazing
Simply beautiful.
I hope natural selection make them fly in the long future lol
Quite a possibility. Shame we probably won't be around as a race to see it
+Godfrey Winston please no hate but I like you profile pic of you it's a nice pc
+Godfrey Winston "Won't be around as a race to see it"
Where are y'all going?
+orda woodward ha ha...well as you know...humans have the propensity to be destructive. So if Stingrays evolve to the point where they fly, I can't see us being here to witness it!!
+Cody M thanks ☺
this is so beautiful!!!
And now we see the majestic flap-flaps in their natural habitat
Hikari Kibago I laughed so hard at that XD
they're evolving into birds, because why not.
Looked more like bats to me.
a new branch
Nah, more like broodlords.
***** part of Cthulhu's wrath
They will no doubt take to the skies one day.
Woe amazing footage, Carwardine is a great author btw
That is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
manta rays were my fav animal growing up
Absolutely amazing!!!
Love the last one! "for fun"! :-)
I think that is the actual reason because rays are by nature curious and playful. I don't see why "for fun" should be unlikely, as the phrasing in the video seems to suggest.
Anyone here remember the Disney movie "Treasure Planet?"
Omg yes I love the movie o tx u you I remember o good childhood o now I want to see
So beautiful
Amazing footage
I love this animals
goosebumps :D
Beautiful sea flap flaps
amazing
I didn't even know those rays could do that.
Good fishing
"And even possibly..... For fun." Lololol
I've actually seen this happen before!
They fly and swim!
The possible fact that they are doing it for fun, like the springboks, is always fucking my mind so hard
When the site is filled with ads so you gotta go directly to youtube to see.
The thumbnail looks like a bat coming out of water
thats cool
Woah!
i knew they could potentially fly
Mobula Ray Planet Earth 3
Imagine being struck in the middle of all the rays... yikes thats a lot of cuts
Look, sea birdies.
The thumbnail is creeping me out
wow pretty 😀
Sea angels!!!
ah yes, the majestic sea flap flap
these things hurt :'(
It's mysterious why Mobula flies .
wow.....
dope
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possibly for fun AND MAYBE... evolve!!!
What is the adaptations of the moguls rays??
why they leap
What's the music
A good fight
Hope it’s just hot fun
What animal is this
They jump to attract mates
leaping rays batman...
The thumbnail kinda looks like stitch from lilo and stitch
I thought so too !!
Thts why i clicked it 😹💦
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Then they mate with some nightmare-fueled animals in Australia...
hi
Hello Barcroft tv team please and please Make Different Channel Animal/documentary different channel things you people upload on this channel.Just stupid i love this channel only because i can see Wild Animal
سبحان الله ما خلقت هذا باطلا
electric sting ray carnival
Scientists are so stuck in the notion that every single thing that exists in the natural world has some evolutionary reason. They/we are still so resistant to give any intellectual or emotional credit to animals because somehow that deminishes the "specialness" of humans.
I like the last option (hesitantly) given for why rays jump like this: it's fun!
Mobula?
Ok then.
They be tryna scare others I think
Water moths
that sad
they look like pieces of paper from above
Fuck yea I'm awesome bitches.
حلو جيد جداً 🤓حلو بال لعربي كلاشيء ماراح تفتهمون هههههههههه
real UFO .
oink
I once fed such rays at a zoo
Couldn't be that they just want to fly... Oh, no, no, no..
Weeeeeee
Hermosa creación de Jehová .
Hi
si
La naturaleza***
2m subs barely any views :/
Literally just got uploaded hahaha
I guess but normally should have more plays :0 like other Chanel's, meh oh well lol
I don't know why, but I find it kind of gross.
Why do flying fish fly? Same shit, no?
Behaviour been around for 100s of millions of years
not that amazing
we should eat them food Mmmm good
amazing
*The CREATOR is real. Stop imagining these came into being out of nothingness and pure chance. Who put the 'laws of nature' into existence, with all its intricate intermeshed balancing act that brings out such marvels and gems?*
Evidence in favor of a divine creator versus evidence of evolution? Save your sermon for church...
Evolution is a fact.
TITANSPIRIT Save your militant atheistic totalitarianist indoctrination for borderline insane asylums or totalitarian re-education camps. In the free market of ideas, creationism wins.
Willem Which evolution? The fairy tales about dungeons and dragons and giant reptilians and dinosaurs? Or the FACT of embryonic evolution from a tiny aquatic spermatozoid to a fully developed human being with highly sophisticated senses and great potentials to literally move mountains? That's majestic, and has nothing to do with the fairy tale that purports to know that there is NO creator, and that is positively sure that humans came out of nothing.
+Fitzgerald Mistral yes. Get mad.