Comments on: Live Manta Birth in Captivity

By: Eric Cheng

Eric Cheng — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 19:57:28 +0000

AWESOME.

By: Mike V

Mike V — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 21:00:50 +0000

my slow internet..

does it come out like a rolled up newspaper? thats my guess..

By: ron silver

ron silver — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:55:53 +0000

Yes, the wings appeared to have been rolled up prior to birth. The length of the pregnancy was also unexpected! Intriguing footage!

By: Kent Matsueda

Kent Matsueda — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 02:58:06 +0000

Can’t view the video. Problems with the encoding. What is the source URL?

By: tony

tony — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:04:04 +0000

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

By: thomashan's blog

thomashan's blog — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:02:38 +0000

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…

By: Kent Matsueda

Kent Matsueda — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:17:34 +0000

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.

By: ad

ad — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:03:45 +0000

baby manta has died.
http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/nation_world/20070621_ap_babymantaatjapanaquariumdies.html

By: Nedip

Nedip — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:25:33 +0000

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.