A very rare `` pink manta '' can be included in the photo, it is unknown why it is pink
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Off the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, a very rare 'pink manta' was reportedly filmed.
How did this rare pink manta, photographed in Australia, get its color?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/02/pink-manta-ray-australia-rare/
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Photographer Christian Laine succeeded in capturing a rare pink manta ray in a photograph. At the time of writing, Rain uploaded more than 5,000 likes in Instagram.
The first South African manta ray , about 11 feet long (about 3.35 m), was found in pink in 2015. The pink manta, discovered by diving instructor Ryan Jeffrey, was named 'Inspector Cruzeau' after a character in the American movie ' Pink Panther ' series.
'Pink' manta ray seen off Lady Elliot Island in southern Great Barrier Reef-ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-04/pink-manta-ray-seen-off-lady-elliot-island/6910786
Since then, 'Inspector Cruzeau' has been sighted off the Great Barrier Reef, but has been witnessed less than 10 times in total. 'I felt very calm and just there. I'm very lucky to see him and I feel like I'm tight.'
Nanyang manta rays are usually known to have three types of colors, `` whole body black '', `` whole body white '', `` mixed white and black '', but pink is the only case of `` Inspector Cruzo '' in pink . I don't know for sure why `` Inspector Cruzeau '' is pink, but it is not a camera failure or paint etc.I am studying manta rays at the University of Queensland in Australia ``
At the time of the discovery, it was thought that the color of 'Inspector Cruzo' was derived from small crustaceans, similar to ' flamingos eating plankton and becoming pink'. But in 2016, Project Manta researcher Amelia Armstrong obtained and analyzed a sample of `` Inspector Cruzo's skin '' in 2016, saying `` It's not pink because of diet or an infectious disease. '' And conclude.
According to Solomon David, an aquatic ecologist at Nichols State University in Louisiana, the color of 'Inspector Cluzo' may be due to a mutation in the melanin pigment. Similar mutations body is white albino and, become black Meranizumu have been well known, but so is sometimes very rarely take on a red erythrism (red hair disease) occurs.
Guy Stevens, CEO of Manta Trust, a British manta protection group, has also suggested that 'the effect of red blood cells?' According to Stevens, the fact that Inspector Cruzeau has an unusual color does not have much impact on survivability. Most predators cannot attack adult manta rays, because mature manta rays can be so large that they can weigh more than a ton.
Also, while `` Inspector Cruzo '' was courting females with other male manta rays while being shot by Mr. Rain, it seems that there is no concern about the relationship between `` Inspector Cruzo '' and other manta rays I am.
'Nature always surprises us. Now we are looking for blue manta rays,' said Stevens.
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