Video of the world’s first live birth of a manta in captivity. Healthy baby female, about 1.9 metres across, born at the Churaumi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan. Video is from a TBS news broadcast. (They appear to have deleted the page with the video)
The video file is 1.7 MB. Click the graphic below and wait for the quicktime file to load.
Note: A few people have had problems viewing the quicktime file. Others have not. I have no idea why. In any case, if you can’t view the embedded file, click below the graphic to download an mp4 file which should play in Quicktime, iTunes and on your iPod.
iPod version (1.7 MB)
AWESOME.
my slow internet..
does it come out like a rolled up newspaper? thats my guess..
Yes, the wings appeared to have been rolled up prior to birth. The length of the pregnancy was also unexpected! Intriguing footage!
Can’t view the video. Problems with the encoding. What is the source URL?
Kent: Looks like TBS has taken down the video from their website. They must clean out their pages every few days. The file is quicktime format (.mov). Try to right click and download to your computer, play with quicktime.
Mike: Yes, like a rolled up newspaper, with a big cloud of afterbirth. Pretty dramatic
amazing birth of manta ray…
Saw on Eric Cheng’s blog which links to Tony Wu’s blog of a Japanese video of the world’s first birth of a manta. I like Eric’s description of it.
Its like she produces a huge turd while swimming, except that the turd then wakes up and swi…
Thanks for the info. I ended up finding it myself and just uploaded it to YouTube…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OIc_px_9xBE
Someone else posted additional video as well.
baby manta has died.
http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/20070621_ap_babymantaatjapanaquariumdies.html
Hello Tony I just seen the clip.
a very interesting clip, it seems that the baby was getting the puls of life a few seconds after it shoot out of her mom.
but is that the same one which has been killd afterward from a Male?
very said if so.
thanks for that info.
Could someone please tell me how to watch the video? I really want to see it, it won’t show up on my computer….
Hi Anna, it’s a quicktime .mov file, or you can download from the link, which is an .mp4 file. If you don’t have quicktime, go to the Apple website and it’s a free download.