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SUBMITTER: Burgess KB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5180158 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Burgess Katherine B KB Couturier Lydie I E LI Marshall Andrea D AD Richardson Anthony J AJ Weeks Scarla J SJ Bennett Michael B MB
Royal Society open science 20161130 11
The characterization of diet for the giant manta ray <i>Manta birostris</i> has been problematic given their large-scale movement patterns and the difficulty in obtaining stomach contents from this species. The large majority of existing information is based on observational data limited to feeding events at the sea surface during daylight. Recently discovered aggregation sites for the giant manta ray off mainland Ecuador are some of the most accessible to date and provide a unique opportunity f ...[more]