만여마리의 노랑가오리떼

[칼빈코스트너]

멕시코만에서 촬영한 사진이라고 합니다.

유카탄반도에서 플로리다로 이동중인 것으로 생각된답니다.

하지만 물에 들어가면 안됩답니다. 노랑가오리의 지느러미에 찔리면 독이있어서 사망한답니다.

Taken by an amateur photographer in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, these photos show the great migration of the Cow-nose Stingrays from the Yucatan Peninsula to western Florida. They travel in compact packs of up to 10,000 individuals, following the counter-clockwise current to their summer feeding grounds.

Measuring up to 6ft 6in across, poisonous golden cow-nose rays migrate in groups - or ‘fevers’ - of up to 10,000 as they glide their way silently towards their summer feeding grounds.

These bovine-looking stingrays have a poisonous stinger, similar to the one that killed animal-lover Steve Irwin, but this doesn’t make them less pleasant to look at, especially during their migration.