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Spotted eagle ray
Aetobatus narinari
The spotted eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari) is a large, white-spotted ray with a wingspan reaching around 3 metres and a whip-like tail that can be twice the length of the body. Its snout is drawn out into a flattened, duck-like shovel, which it drives into sand to root out burie…
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- Unlike most rays, the spotted eagle ray gives birth to live young instead of laying eggs.
- An eagle ray separates shell from meat inside its own mouth, spitting out the fragments, which is why piles of neatly crushed shells sometimes betray where one has been feeding. It roots for clams with a shovel-shaped snout and crushes them with plates rather than teeth. Its venomous spines sit at the base of the tail, not the tip, unlike a stingray's. Spotted eagle rays leap fully clear of the water, and one is known to have landed in a boat.
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