Clips
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Photo: Manta ray at cleaning station
A manta is seen being filmed at a cleaning station, where injured mantas are frequent visitors. Andrea has found that tiny butterfly fish specialise in cleaning shark bite wounds.
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Photo: Juvenile manta
A juvenile manta feeds off the island of Voavah in the Maldives. With a wingspan of up to 7.5 metres, mantas are the largest of all the rays.
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Photo: Dead mantas
Dead mantas in a market in Indonesia. Mantas are highly prized in traditional Chinese medicine, their body parts used to treat illnesses from diabetes to the common cold.
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Photo: Manta group
More than a hundred manta rays gather in the Maldives. Groups like this only form during the monsoon when spring tides cause strong currents to draw up nutrients from the depths.
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Manta ray
Despite them being referred to as devilfish, manta rays are gentle giants. Their pectoral 'wings' can span up to nearly 7m.
Wildlife Finder: watch underwater footage of manta rays -
Stingrays
Stingrays are a family of cartilaginous fish that get their name from the barbed stinger on their tails. They will only use this stinger in self defense.
Wildlife Finder: watch the first ever footage of the small-eyed stingray
Credits
- Series Editor
- Tim Martin
- Narrator
- Alisdair Simpson
- Participant
- Andrea Marshall
- Director
- Mark Woodward
- Producer
- Mark Woodward
- Executive Producer
- Sarah Cunliffe
