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Most of the mantas we saw were female. We don’t know what that means, it just was the way it was. Mantas are directly related to sharks and have “ampulae of lorenzini”. These are what pellagic sharks use to sense prey. The mantas must use them for something as we have been told they are more sensitive than those of the sharks.
Isla San Benedicto – Revillagigedos Archipelago, Mexico
February 2, 2009