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Rays in the Sun
September 23, 2019
TAS ’19 Ragupathy Kannan took this photo of a school of rays swimming near the Atlantic coast.
Photo: Ragupathy Kannan
We saw large schools of Cow-nosed Rays closer to the coast. These animals feed on bivalve mollusks like clams and oysters with their robust jaws adapted for such hard food. They are classified as Near Threatened due to their reliance on oyster beds which are themselves threatened by pollution and over exploitation.Read the blog post
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